About.com, February 2004
"A must-read for shareware programmers who want to protect their work. Comprehensive and well-written coverage of the topic."
Book Description
Crackproof Your Software is an essential resource for all software developers. It effectively teaches how to protect software against unauthorized copying and distribution. The book highlights weak points in seemingly well-protected programs. Software developers will learn how crackers break common protection schemes and how to defend against them. The book begins by introducing the developer to the techniques and programs most frequently used by crackers and discusses the basic types of protection and common protection errors. An in-depth discussion on anti-debugging and anti-disassembling details the many ways developers can protect their software. The book also includes a chapter of useful Internet resources. The CDROM contains compression and encoding software, debuggers and anti-debugging tricks, practical protection demonstrations, and unabbreviated examples from the book.
