Crackproof Your Software: The Best Ways to Protect Your Software Against Crackers
- 3h 24m
- Pavol Cerven
- No Starch Press
- 2002
There are many things you can do to protect your software from crackers, and just as many ways for crackers to get around them. If you develop commercial software, you need to know what you can and can’t do to protect yourself against crackers.
Every day, crackers break various software registration keys and circumvent original CD checks, time limitations, product registration keys, and so on. While several crackers make their vast know-how available online, this is the first book to completely describe the latest in anti-cracking software protection in one single resource.
Crackproof Your Software explains what you can do to protect your software, including:
- The most common weaknesses in software protection and how crackers overcome them
- How to protect against the programs crackers most frequently use to crack software, like SoftICE
- The basic types of software protection; which to use and how to combine them for better protection
- Anti-debugging, anti-disassembling, and other tricks
- Weak spots in programs that may seem otherwise well-protected
- Specific applications that will strengthen your software’s protection
About the Author
Pavol Cerven is a software expert with the Alcatel Company. He began playing with computers at the age of 13. Formerly active in the world of PC virus protection, he now focuses on protecting software against illegal copying, and is developing a new type of encoding program for executable files.
In this Book
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Basics
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Cracking Tools
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The Basic Types of Software Protection
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CD Protection Tricks
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Program Compression and Encoding—Freeware and Shareware
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Commercial Software Protection Programs
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Anti-Debugging, Anti-Disassembling, and Other Tricks for Protecting Against Softice and TRW
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Protecting Against Breakpoints, Tracers, and Debuggers
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Other Protection Tricks
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Important Structures in Windows
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Suggestions for Better Software Protection
