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Protect! EXE/COM v.3.1
(C) 1993 Jeremy Lilley,
All Rights Reserved
Help/Problems File
This is a brief file describing what to do in some cases that
you have problems with Protect! EXE/COM (which *hopefully* shouldn't
happen much):
Problem: Explanation:
A file is protected with no errors, Protect! EXE/COM is known to be
but when it is run, it either crashes incompatible with some files
the computer or generates a CRC error including some overlays, some
message. extremely large and short files,
OS/2, and Windows files. If you <<
have more than 1 executable file <<
compressor (like if you have <<
PKLITE and LZEXE), TRY MORE THAN <<
ONE. I have had some programs <<
work under LZEXE but not PKLITE
and some under PKLITE but not
LZEXE. You should not run into
this type of problem very often,
but I've run into it a few times
during testing, and it's just
quirks in the files. Also, make
sure that it was not previously
protected with another program
that would make it incompatible
with Protect! EXE/COM. If it is
a COM file, try using a program
such as PKLITE first. Also, please
note that LZEXE/Diet/Compack are
much more compatible with Protect!
than PKLite, so please use those
whenever possible for better
compatibility.
Protect! EXE/COM aborts and says to To protect an EXE file, YOU MUST
use a compression utility on the PRECOMPRESS IT. This is because
file. protected files are more secure
if they don't have long sequences
of the same characters which tend
to get picked out very easily. To
protect these files, you must
obtain a compressor such as LZEXE,
PKLITE, Compack, Diet, etc. If you
use a lesser known compressor & it
gave you that message, it means
that that particular compressor is
incompatible (probably because it
doesn't completely clear the
relocation table) with Protect!.
After selecting a non-compressed If you want Protect! to search through
EXE file from the directory listing the path and look for LZEXE.EXE or
in Protect!, it asked "Compress file PKLITE.EXE and do everything for you,
(Lzexe/Pklite/Continue/Abort) ?" What select L or P. If you compressed it
should I select ? with a utility such as COMPACK, select
Continue and it will attempt to
protect the file. If you just want to
quit, select Abort.
Protect! says that there was an Make sure that the directory is
error accessing/writing a file. correct, and if it is on a floppy
disk, that it is in.
Protect! reported that a file was All EXE files begin with "MZ" and
not a valid EXE file. that file did not have that "MZ"
signature at the beginning. Check
to see if it is actually a COM
file but was renamed to an EXE.
Protect! said that a file was You or somebody else has already
already protected. run Protect! on that file. It can
be unreliable and slow if you start
protecting files more than once.
(Just think about what it would be
if a virus attached itself atop a
protected program.)
Protect! said that a COM file was Protect! won't protect anything
too small. under 10 bytes.
I got a memory allocation error when Contact me immediately!
I run Protect! EXE/COM or there was
a CRC error message.