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- Protect! EXE/COM 3.1 (C) 1993 Jeremy Lilley
- All Rights Reserved
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- First off, since 95% of the people never read the documentation
- to much of a degree, I'll try to summarize the important things here so
- that you can have a brief understanding of this program:
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- This program is back with a few bug fixes (most notably, a screen
- bug that crashed many systems was fixed). You can see WHATSNEW.DOC for
- the rest of the minor changes.
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- For those who haven't yet seen Protect! EXE/COM, it is a utility
- that protects and encrypts your EXE and COM files and leaves them
- executable. A security envelope makes a thorough CRC check to make sure
- that nobody has tampered with the file and anti-debugging techniques are
- used to make it more difficult to trace through with a debugger. To use
- this utility with EXE files, a compression utility such as LZEXE (free!)
- or PKLITE is required. Other programs such as Compack, Tinyprog, and
- Diet work also.
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- For your information, the registered version is slightly different
- from the unregistered version so that even if an unprotect program is made
- for Protect!'s unregistered version, it will not work for the registered
- version necessarily. The unregistered version is intended as an EVALUATION
- VERSION ONLY and it isn't guarenteed to be 100% safe. Don't distribute
- any files protected with the evaluation; not only is it illegal, but it is
- not safe from any potential future unprotect programs. If you do register
- Protect!, not only do you get to set your own CRC error message, but you
- are much more safe against the hazards that Protect! was designed to
- protect you against.
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- The documentation is rather short, so you may want to peek at it.
- You do not need to use extensions on the filenames that you pass on to
- PROTEXCM.EXE. The original is renamed to ".OLD" when it is through so
- that it is preserved. A list of the new things is in WHATSNEW.DOC.
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- You can register with ORDER.FRM for $25 and if you are a member
- of Compuserve, then you can register through the SWReg database and get
- your registered version through Compuserve mail instead of "snail mail"
- (the postal service). The files are less than 40k, so it should not be
- a long transfer. If you register through the mail, but you would like
- to get your files in your CIS mailbox, just tell me. Registered users
- get support through mail, Compuserve, and Internet, a registered copy
- updates, the legal ability to distribute protected files, and a good
- conscience. Besides, $25 is a lot less than your program's reputation
- if it gets "hacked" or modified.
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- Thank you for evaluating Protect! EXE/COM version 3.1!
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- Please Send Any Inquiries or Registrations to:
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- Jeremy Lilley
- Protect! EXE/COM
- 27816 Radfall Court
- Santa Clarita, CA 91350
- Compuserve: 75060,2074
- Internet: 75060.2074@compuserve.com
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