Game protection against cracks and piracy

**SoftComplete** · 11-04-2006, 01:36 PM

EXECryptor reaches version 2.3.9
Software piracy! Cracked serial numbers! Thousands of commercial products are posted on the warez sites and become available to all every day! Companies lose millions of dollars every year to software piracy, and faulty protection programs. Shareware developers look for unbreakable protection for their products and create some protection themselves or try many of the ready-made tools. Unfortunately most tools have already been cracked, and self solutions often only take one determined cracked a few hours to bypass. As a result they soon find the stoles keys and product cracks on thousands of hacker Internet pages.
No solution ? Well there is

It is time to turn to time tested, EXECryptor protection product. EXECryptor is a powerful software tool that provide developers with software protection from reverse engineering, analysis and modifications. Its main difference from other protection tools is its brand new metamorphing code transformation technology.

With EXECryptor the protected code block is not just packed or obfuscated like many other packers, but also disassembled into nondeterminate transformations, effectively scrambling the visible logical code structure and making it hard to reverse. After the code transformation, it remains executable and working as it is supposed to but it cannot be analysed, modified, or circumvented.
It is not just a question about code encryption but also code transformation. You can optionally wrap additional parts of your code, at a source code level, in special flags which then transform into virtually impossible code to trace, crack, or bypass. Protected code blocks are never decrypted during execution they remain in their transformed code state. Code restoration becomes an NP-hard problem.
EXECryptor has the innovative very powerful antidebug, antitrace and import protection features to stop the latest cracking software.
EXECryptor allows to use short registration keys of 12/16 characters long, based on a new generation of our HardKey algorithm, cryptographically strong ultrashort digital signature.
The power of software protection with EXECryptor is proved out in practice: despite numberous cracking attempts and challenges, the EXECryptor's 2.x series has not been cracked since its inception in July of 2004.
In addition to its advanced protection features, EXECryptor allows you to compress the code and resources of your application.
EXECryptor is able to protect any 32bit PE executable file (exe, dll, bpl, vxd, wdm). It has been tested with W95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP/2003. SDKs are available for Delphi, C++Builder, Microsoft Visual C++, LCC, PellesC, Visual Basic, PowerBASIC and PureBasic.

EXECryptor is distributed electronically over the Internet; free trial version is available at http://www.strongbit.com for evaluation.

* Operating system: Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003
* RAM: 32 Mb
* Hard Disk: 2.5 Mb
EXECryptor Web Page: http://www.strongbit.com

**jdarling** · 11-04-2006, 03:02 PM

Web page broken with result of:

Provider error '80020005'
Type mismatch.
/inc/stat_utils.asp, line 38

Also if your going to post about a product it would be nice if you would list a price instead of just saying that the trial is available at xyz.

**Clootie** · 11-04-2006, 08:26 PM

Advice: Don't piss your customers with ridiculous protection schemes.
Hint: you are not the size of EA!

**jdarling** · 11-04-2006, 08:28 PM

Originally Posted by Clootie

Advice: Don't piss your customers with ridiculous protection schemes.
Hint: you are not the size of EA!

LOL Good point Clootie, you know in all of the stuff I've done I've never used nor had the want to use protection. Let them re-dist it as long as they spell my name right!

**SoftComplete** · 12-04-2006, 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by jdarling

Web page broken with result of:

Provider error '80020005'
Type mismatch.
/inc/stat_utils.asp, line 38

Thank you for the error report. It has been fixed.

Regards,
StrongBit
http://www.strongbit.com

**Clootie** · 15-04-2006, 08:43 AM

It's official: Ubisoft dumps StarForce

**JernejL** · 22-04-2006, 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by SoftComplete

With EXECryptor the protected code block is not just packed or obfuscated like many other packers, but also disassembled into nondeterminate transformations, effectively scrambling the visible logical code structure and making it hard to reverse. After the code transformation, it remains executable and working as it is supposed to but it cannot be analysed, modified, or circumvented.

lies, you even supply decryptor in every crypted exe. remember: if someone wants to it will break any protection.

**Robert Kosek** · 22-04-2006, 07:38 PM

The harder you squeeze, the more sales squirt through your fingers.

**WILL** · 22-04-2006, 10:42 PM

Wow, it seems like you guys have a real hate-on for EXE Encryption.

What alternatives would you guys suggest to this form of protection? Or do you simply prefer the minimalist approach?

**jdarling** · 23-04-2006, 12:59 AM

Personally, I don't worry about it at all. I've seen lots of companies and individuals spend litterlly 100's of hours (equaling 1000's of dollars if not more) on protecting their software. In the end if they would have spent the hours adding features or fixing bugs they would have been better off.

Also encryption/decryption of EXE's or compression of EXE's only leads to more of the exe being forced into memory at runtime. Thus bloating the run footprint of the application.

If a hacker or attacker wants your stuff they will get it. Personally if I find a "Hack" copy of something of mine on the web I'm proud that it was good enough to be hacked and hope that the honest people will like it enough to buy a license. Of course I've released very little as pay-ware, usually opting for a freeware license overall.