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...
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