What is the best software protection?

Originally posted by dynio
At the moment Armadillo and Xtreme Protector seems to be the best choice. ASProtect has been almost totally defeated. Only last month I've cracked almost 10 apps protected with AsProtect 1.23 - but what i must admit is the truth: I'VE NEVER SEEN ASPROTECT USED PROPERLY (since I've been cracking it more than 50-60 times).

What would I do is to use one of them together with latest HASP or SENTINEL dongle. That should be hard enough to stop 95% of crackers. Pe Lock is quite good although executable protected with it is easy to dump, then reverse etc... I've tried version 1.06 (pelock.prv.pl).

HASP or SENTINEL standalone are REALLY EASY to crack. If someone couldn't crack it itself then he(she) should search the web. If he(she) couldn't still force it then he(she) is probably blind.

And about Code-Lock.... I've never had this software in hands - in this moment I'm downloading it and thinking who is so silly and wrote that Code-Lock hasn't been cracked since 3 years.... That's really IMPOSSIBLE and if someone really believe it then he(she) haven't anything common with cracking (or maybe for he(she) the time stopped 5-6 years ago). I've also officially contacted Code-Lock authors about the competition and described my rules (I won't show them how I cracked (hope I will) their program, I'll send them cracked version manually protected with me, etc.) - let's see if they will accept it.

And as I see, during the last years authors of commercial protectors became more and more shameless. They could do EVERYTHING to fool potential customers and earn few $. That's a fuc***g cheat.

Let's face these problems....
During 1-2 days I'll post here one of the latest protector disassembled and cracked. EXESHIELD. Why this one? Just read the introduction in help file and You'll understand (I mean these "sophisticated" techniques, etc.) why... That's not the only one I've dancing with but I won't publish all my work just to let commercial authors learning step by step how we (i assume You're with me ) are dealing with them and what they do wrong.

Ok. this discussion goes boring...

Greetings.

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Code-Lock has never been cracked, I find that hard to beleive
since everything is always cracked if given amount of time.

Armadillo Nanomities have still not been cracked automatically.

i never see any app protected with code-lock..

to ARC: Its possible create keygen for Armadillo without valid license key or without run of application.

to gorge: Hehe. "Code-Lock has never been cracked", I think its really bullshit. Maybe thier example for competition. But I can create something like this with ASProtect, PELock or SVKP too. I will use RSA encrypted blocks and I will never release license key for it. Then try to crack it. Its not possible, maybe for Armadillo

to gorge: Hehe. "Code-Lock has never been cracked",

anti don't pay attention. It is just code-lock's author (gorge) performs advertisement campaign here.

[ArC]

@anti:

to ARC: Its possible create keygen for Armadillo without valid license key or without run of application

????????????????
Did I ever say it's not possible to kg Arma w/0 a valid license key????????????

Originally posted by gorge
Code-Lock has never been cracked, I find that hard to beleive
since everything is always cracked if given amount of time.

Then I challenge all of you here to crack it.

Originally posted by rtsoftware
Then I challenge all of you here to crack it.

pay me for a betatest and i spend some time on this crap

Originally posted by sKAMER
pay me for a betatest and i spend some time on this crap

Sorry mate.

You have to show me you are no crap first. I do not feel like paying you to know that you are crap especially when I know that Code-Lock is not.

Originally posted by rtsoftware
Sorry mate.

You have to show me you are no crap first. I do not feel like paying you to know that you are crap especially when I know that Code-Lock is not.

gagaga..trust me

btw: gime a link on any code-lock protected app/code-lock customer

Try cracking Slice-n-Save from my website.

[ArC]

Written by gorge

Armadillo Nanomities have still not been cracked automatically

There're unpackers available which can handle Nanomites...but they aren't available for the public

As I suspected...

Please read my thread "$200 for Code-Lock - a joke? " in the general discussion forum.

Anyone wants to comment?

[Squidge]

Well, I can certainly backup that statement as I have written my own unpacker for Armadillo 3.10. Unpacks the app, and then goes back and grabs the nanomites round there necks

I was suprised how easy the unpacking process is (specially on CopyMem-II targets). The only slightly complex task was automating nanomite removal, but it seems to work quite nicely.

Never seen a Armadillo 3.10 unpacker "in the wild" however. But, like other authors say, if you keep them private, the unpackers last a whole lot longer, and since playing catch the chicken gets boring really boring really quickly, this is the best way to do it.

Originally posted by ArC
Written by gorge

There're unpackers available which can handle Nanomites...but they aren't available for the public

[ArC]

What do I have to do so that you send me that unpacker?

[Squidge]

Give me lots of money