What's best? ASProtect or Armadillo

Xprotector is quite unstable, really good for crackmes I think, but not for commercial appz.
It adds a heavy overload at your program (and make your program's size incredibly grow), and sometimes neven can be run well. Btw, if you don't add a heavy protection (I mean, not using 2000 de/crypting layers and the other things it can provide), sometimes could be useful.
For the discussion about ASprotect vs Armadillo, I can say only that I read some tutes about asprotect's manual unpacking and I found its methods very interesting.

yes , ok , xprotector is unstable because it is a very new product.
And this (i think) because it includes some very new characteristics such as the Ring0 binding , that is an "unknown word" for some other protection tools.

Take a look at the whitepaper...it is a very professional project.

Ok , every good project needs time...beta-testing , feedbacks and i believe
that everyone (interested in protection technology) must help good programmers.(this is my personal think)

I am using also , asprotect , armadillo and ok these versions are very very very stable.
They have 99% compatibility.
But these protection tools are available since the last 3-4 years.
And as we can say , the "beta-testing" is already completed.

XProtector as i can remember is only available in the last 1 + year.

But let's see the guys from xprotector team what they will make in the next 1 - 2 years.
After that period , we can again give our positive or negative vote

But again , i don't have seen an unpacked or cracked version and i don't believe that the biggest's minds arround the globe don't have tried to crack it.
Am i right ?

Regards,
VD

But again , i don't have seen an unpacked or cracked version and i don't believe that the biggest's minds arround the globe don't have tried to crack it.
Am i right ?

this is because is not famous and not used by many programs... you'll see it cracked when it got famous or used by many outhere..... some freaky dumper will arrive for it as the medicine for the "beast" i have seen many Protectors outthere that claims to be the best .. at the end you see it cracked somewhere... anything is not perfect and it's just matter of time for someone to study and analize.. if it runs it can be defeated!

[D-Jester]

I don't like X-Protector, although their ideas are unique I will give them that.

I hate the fact that they modify INT3 vectors, and from what I have seen of it even after the program has ended the system is unstable.

I would attribute this to the self contained VXD and its SYS counterpart, stay resident in memory, at least I believe so...