SoftLock/HardLock

[JMI]

Well it should be obvious that you are facing anti-softice detection, anti-ida and other counter measures. Therefore a good tactic would be to do some research on those issues generally. There are many articles on the net on softice detection. You need to learn about hiding softice from such attacks.

But the first step in attacking ANY protection system would be to actually spend some time READING articles and tuts on the net devoted to reversing your target. It is usually useful to also go to the website of the company and find out what information may be available there on what they claim the product can do.

Regards,

[dyn!o]

Pretty interesting.

SafeLock and Hardlock are different protections.

SafeLock was made for SafeLock company by some russian guys in recent months - it's nothing unusual, IceExt completely hides the debugger and then you can do what you want (it isn't strong protection, for example: import table is almost untouched).

Hardlock is hardware dongle based protection with its usual envelope idea. There exists some ready made tools which allow to automatically deprotect the envelope or emulate it (I don't mean the emulator from BrainStudio but other interesting small software which disables the HardLock envelope automatically - assuming you have at least one valid dongle or access to it).

Good Luck.