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I meant that we already have thought of hard drive swapping and that wouldn;t work. LockX protects against that. It a user tries to do it, it will simply return to unregistered and give the user a certain amount of trial time. To register, he'd have to buy a serial number from u
But wont you're client have to recall and re-do all the previous versions that use the faulty version?
btw, we are still looking for a partner... and if anyone is intereted contact me. The reason why we need one is to cope with our increased advertising budget. Also, if anyone knows a good hacking group, please foward me their contact information.
no Conscript, only the LockX DLL will have to be replaced which could easily be done. You could like make sure it checks for an update every week or something or simply protect your newer versions with the newer DLL. The best thing to do would make sure your software cant be downloaded from anywhere else except your website. I forgot to mention, we have membership of trialware.org and are in regular contact with BSA.org so if we do find any website that supports piracy for the software registered in our watch group, we will force them to close one way or another... anyway.. these are always gonna be last steps and as always... prevention is better than cure
What kind of partner are you looking for? What would be the responsibilities involved?
so u didn't read that post of mine... we were looking for an investor or something... who is willing to spend $$$$ for $$$$$
Geez id like to invest in this but I could only invest like $70 lol
stupid allowance
OK, this is something I don't get. Let's say legitimate customer buys my software. Then his computer goes south or he buys a new one or whatever.
How much cussing is he going to do at me because he can't reinstall my software?
We can get together as a partner in partners. I'll pitch in my unemployment check.Quote:
Originally posted by Aerials
Geez id like to invest in this but I could only invest like $70 lol
stupid allowance
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Same question Microsoft was faced with product activation.... if they solved it somehow, im sure it wont be a big problem for him to solve right? :)
Yeah... I bought XP Pro and reinstalled it twice. I needed an internet connection to register again, but it was pretty simple and painless.
LockX trialware comes with a License Transfer system. You can call a function that transfers the license to a floppy which returns the mother computer back to trial ware mode. Then u could use it unlock another computer with that floppy. This method ensures 100% that one license will smoothly be transfered to only one computer.
Actually we are looking for about $5K for a periof of 4 months so an investor would end up paying about $20K. I have already got some offers but they want 80% of our profits for one year while I'm only offering a max of 50% for a year. The money will be used for advertising so it wont be long before u start seeing ads. And if anyone is seriously interested in investing, u could contact me at [email protected]
I think you can activate on two computers as many times as you want (The license allows one desktop and one laptop installation). If you have hardware change or a new computer then I think you have to call msft and explain why you need an activation on a 3rd box.Quote:
Originally posted by cafeenman
Yeah... I bought XP Pro and reinstalled it twice. I needed an internet connection to register again, but it was pretty simple and painless.
Not with LockX... that was our aim from the very start. Everything could be done without contacting your customer support. The user could register a license, transfer a license, etc without even having an internet connection. But then again, he would need to have an internet connection to get his serial number in the first place.
im still lookijng to get in touch with good hacking groups so if u know any, please foward their contact information to me.
Does anyone have a nice product or feature i could add to my range of software products? I'm looking to get that database protection scheme out soon but I don't really know if there is much of a market... what do u think?
And yeah... anyone got thru the protection so far?
If you could protect an mdb, that would be a big plus for me
Isn't your database on your backend server?Quote:
If you could protect an mdb, that would be a big plus for me
no, its not a "database application" per seQuote:
Originally posted by skald2k
Isn't your database on your backend server?
LockX is only for client side software
Then why the need to secure it?Quote:
no, its not a "database application" per se
so that no one is able to steal the precious information inside it. Suppose you have made a phone directory that has the phone numbers for all the people living in the US. The last thing u would want was a hacker stealing that information from your database!
Then wouldn't it be common sense and logical NOT to distribute the entire database along with the client side software in the first place? :rolleyes:Quote:
so that no one is able to steal the precious information inside it. Suppose you have made a phone directory that has the phone numbers for all the people living in the US. The last thing u would want was a hacker stealing that information from your database!
I read that license from top to bottom. Then I went to the MS website. My understanding is that you can put XP on one computer and one computer only. Maybe I misunderstood.Quote:
Originally posted by Muddy
I think you can activate on two computers as many times as you want (The license allows one desktop and one laptop installation). If you have hardware change or a new computer then I think you have to call msft and explain why you need an activation on a 3rd box.
I'm not sure which products give secondary use rights. This site has a doc that outlines it though (I cant view it as this box has a really old version of WOrd).Quote:
Originally posted by cafeenman
I read that license from top to bottom. Then I went to the MS website. My understanding is that you can put XP on one computer and one computer only. Maybe I misunderstood.
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/r...s/volbrief.asp
(This link on that page):
Application Home and Portable Use Rights (Secondary Use Rights)
There are tons of possible reasons to want to secure an mdb:Quote:
Originally posted by skald2k
Then wouldn't it be common sense and logical NOT to distribute the entire database along with the client side software in the first place? :rolleyes:
1) it stores applications that contain proprietary VBA code
2) client inputs sensitive data
3) just to keep client from snooping around and potentialy hosing a large amount of data that he will expect you to fix
Another reason why you would want to keep a database secure is prevent anyone from grabbing information that took u months to collect like suppose u make a dictionary or something. Now u wouldn't want anyone to get hold of that data in its raw form, would u?
By the way, which one of you is named Eric?
I looked at the standard EULA for WXP and you are right ... one computer only it looks like.Quote:
Originally posted by cafeenman
I read that license from top to bottom. Then I went to the MS website. My understanding is that you can put XP on one computer and one computer only. Maybe I misunderstood.
The MSDN subscription allows 10 copies (one user)
The EULA for Office XP does give the right for a Desktop copy and a Laptop copy at the same time.
Is it possible to encrypt 1 half of a program in one encryption and then the other in a different kind?
Could it be that Calc.exe decrypts a.a which is a decrypter for part of Calc.exe and Calc.exe is actually the program?
(Thats a guess if you don't notice) :)
could be.... anyway.. guess you are still workin on it. I really think u should use some good debugging and cracking tools if u were to have any hope
Where am I supposed to get 20k
I dont even hava half a K lol
what do u mean ariel..?
For investing in your project
if anyone is seriously interested in investing, contact me and we could work something out.. you can invest as low as 200$ / month or as high as $3000 / month. Accordingly you'll get a certain % of our turn over monthly. We need at least $3000/month to get started off. So if some decides to invest say $600 /month with us, he will get 20% of 50% of the monthly turn over. If you decide to invest $3000 /month, you will get 50% of our profit.
In simple terms, we need $3000 / month to keep the project running. Therefore, a single or group of investors could invest. We will continue to except investments till we reach our target $3000 / month. Now your percentage of the profit will be determined by how much of a share u paid. The maximum anyone can get is 50% of our profits. And if someone does invest 3000$ / month then he has purchased 100% of the share and will thus receive 50% of our monthly turn over. Now if someone goes for a lesser amount, say 200$ / month, he will get 200/3000 * 100 of 50 % of our turn over which is equal to 15% of 50% of our profits.
The $3000 /month is needed to maintain our advertising campaign. If you are seriously interested in purchasing a certain % of our profit, contact me at [email protected] and i could give u details such as profit outlook, etc.
by the way, we should finish our database protection system within 2 more weeks. The system is very unique and would allow you to 100% protect your data from a jealous user who wants to steal it. The key advantage of this system is that you dont have to change any source code and works on a unique partial encryption system which will really amaze u.
And yeah... dumb question... anyone able to get through the original exe yet? Soon i will be putting up a complete trial ware software so you could try cracking. The unique thing about SoftEncrypt (our PE Encryptor) is that it can also encrypt dlls and ocxs.
He's not cocky... he exudes confidence (overly so) :)Quote:
Originally posted by Arc
Ohh and BTW:D I will be glad when it is cracked(and it will be). You seem way too cocky:D
My guess would be that the first people to crack this encryption would be Microsoft, so they could copy it. If anyone can do it they can.
If that's the case, I'm sure it will improved and closely guarded.Quote:
Originally posted by Slaine
My guess would be that the first people to crack this encryption would be Microsoft, so they could copy it. If anyone can do it they can.
Wait! I mean more features, additional bugs AND then closely guarded.
The newer version is 10 times faster. It executed immediately. You can download this version and test it for yourself. We are still working on the Windows 9x problemQuote:
Originally posted by Arc
Let me ask you this. Even if your Software is really good at doing what it's supposed to. How much performance does the user have to give up? It seems to me that if the exe is encrypted and is having to be read and decrypted that this could cuase a program to be very slow. Especially one that requires alot of processing like Big DB applications.
If someone built a program and compiled it to a .exe and then used your software to encrypt it, couldn't they then compare the two in a Hex editor and find out easier how it is encrypted?