Possible Duplicates: How do you protect your software from illegal distribution? Best practice to prevent software copy Hypothetical situation: Lets say I have built a software product from the scratch and it does wonderful things. The only problem is that, once someone takes a look at the code, they will understand it very...
I am making an installer using Inno Setup. I want to password protect the uninstallation. So my plan is to ask for the uninstallation password during installation, and save it into a file. While uninstalling, ask for the password from user and compare the passwords. I could not find a way to let the user enter the password while uninsta...
For my MFC/C++ unmanaged time-limited software needs, I'd like to get a GMT/UTC time-stamp from the internet (instead of relying on the PC clock time that can be easily changed). I already though about parsing the line "Current UTC"... line from http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ (I think port 80 is more likely to be open than other...
I have build 64-bit (x64) versions of some assemblies and am trying to obfuscate them with .NET Reactor, which claims to have 64-bit support. However, even if I disable all protection and locking options .NET Reactor is always producing 32-bit assemblies! Does anyone know how to get .NET Reactor to produce 64-bit assemblies? ...
I need to create a PHP script that works more or less like a licence activation key, once activated then you are good. I have a main site (My website), and I have clients site (Licence Holder Website/also where the php script should be held) I was thinking would cURL Library be my solution to this? or not? or if anyone has a better s...
Hi. I intend to make some software to be sold over internet. I've only created open-source before, so I have really no idea of how to protect it from being cracked and distributed as warez. Bearing in mind that I know like two programms that aren't either cracked or not really useful I decided that the only more or less reliable way may ...
Up to now, I've only distributed a few apps by sending .apk files around. I was wondering how Android Market prevents users from distributing a paid application to other people. ...
I am creating an App that pulls data from a file on my server. That file gets data from my database, based on GET values that are passed through the URL. I would like to keep this feed closed - that is, I don't want people finding the datasource and reading the data on their own. I considered sending an alphanumeric id along with the u...
hi i'am looking for any idea to protect my programs (Windows-CE and Windows-mobile) from duplicate on another terminal. is there any free tool for this ? or how i can do it in C# code ? thank's in advance ...
I have a live rails website and I want to have a form with a lot of fields on it. I have set up validations and allowed formatting for every field. I've tested it quite a bit and it seems to catch anything I throw at it. I think it's almost ready to go live, but I want to quadruple check if there's anything else I should do to protect it...
I'd like to know how it works - whether it checks if process can read/write/execute memory on every access, or it does it only once? But when it does it only once, and all processes are in a single address space, how are these other hostile processes are prevented from accessing memory from not their's areas? How is it solved in Mungi OS...
i need code that will protect website code that can be put on the webpages of a site thanks in advance! ...
Hi everybody. Does anyone know a possibilty to protect a string-wildcard from changing in a textarea? HTML: <textarea name="mail_text" id="mail_text"> {salutation} {recipient}, thanks for your email. Regards {username} </textarea> I would like to catch when someone tries to change one of the wildcards: {salutation},*{recipient}* and...
Hi All Quite a few people have really taken interest in the dll's ivé sent them, and they're not the type that should be given away for free too often... I was just wondering, if I were to sell my components, user controls etc, how would I go about protecting them, in terms of ownership/encrypting code (if possible) etc.. What steps ha...
hey What is best possible way to protect Excel work book(read only) and work sheets without using password using SpreadsheetGear dll in c#? ...
Hello I'd like to make protection of the videos on my site and make them harder for downloading ... so they must be hidden for apps like DownloadHelper etc. I'm using flowplayer and I don't have a clue, how to do it. Any help will be useful - thank you. ...
Here's the background info. I have an app that writes to an excel 2007 .xlsm file and I am using C# and the Excel 12.0 interop object libraries to do it, along with Visual Studio 2010. I am able to change the cell values and formulas, set the font and font style, set the cells to locked or not, etc. The last thing I need to do is to set ...
We are adding AES 256 bit encryption to our server and client applications for encrypting the TCP/IP traffic containing sensitive information. We will be rotating the keys daily. Because of that, the keys will be stored in memory with the applications. Key distribution process: Each server and client will have a list of initial Key E...
Hello, I'm working on a web service that would use an SMS gateway to receive instructions from customers. Since this would be a commercial product I would like to implement a safeguard to protect our system from SMS spoofs. I don't want people impersonating others by spoofing their number. I've noticed that Twitter allows people to tw...
Hello all, I have developed an app and its written in PHP (with a bunch of SQL scripts), this app will be used by a few small companies. For them to use it, I will have to install Apache and SQL Server for them. Every method I have thought has fallen short of what I need. I was actually just hoping to use ZendGuard or IonCube but they ...