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- echo This will briefly give a little background on Protect! EXE/COM v.2.0.
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- echo If you are a programmer, it is vital that your programs be well-protected,
- echo especially in a world full of destructive hackers. That is why I created
- echo Protect! EXE/COM. Unlike any utility on the market, Protect! EXE/COM scrambles
- echo EXE and COM programs and checks for a CRC EVER TIME A PROTECTED PROGRAM
- echo IS RUN! Since the loader is highly optimized, there is almost no noticeable
- echo system slowing during loading. Of course, enough self-modifying code is
- echo sprinkled in to really bug any hacker. In addition, the file is extremely
- echo scrambled, but a CRC is just an extra precaution.
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- echo If you already use LZEXE, PKLite (R), or PKLite (R) commercial, you may
- echo think that you are sufficiently protected, but think again! UNLZEXE has
- echo been out for a long time, PKLite can decompress its files, and any hacker
- echo can get access to a program that can even undo compression done by the -E
- echo option on PKLite commercial. Would you like any idiot to have the ability
- echo to add "trojan horses" to your programs, remove some copyright screens, or
- echo anything like that ? Protect your programs and your reputation by using
- echo Protect! EXE/COM !
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- echo This version in particular has many additional protection features which
- echo are better summarized in WHATSNEW.DOC but add improved speed and security.
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- echo The one main requirement of Protect! EXE/COM is that the file to protect
- echo be compressed with LZEXE, PKLite, Compack (R), or some other executable
- echo compression program first if the file is an EXE file. COM files can be
- echo protected directly if you prefer, but they you can compress them first also.
- echo This compression requirement is instituted because a compressed program is
- echo harder to decrypt than a program with lots of repetitive sequences. A CRC
- echo can be calculated more reliably this way also. Sorry, but Windows (R),
- echo OS/2 (R), and overlay programs cannot be protected.
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- echo The cost of this revolutionary protection program is only a flat fee of
- echo $25 -- no "run-time fees" or "royalties" at all. You can protect as many
- echo programs as you want from one computer for that one fee, which will prevent
- echo many people from snooping in your programs.
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- echo By the way, this is the nice message that you get from a protected file
- echo whose CRC has been violated (if a change occurs in the loader, the program
- echo may crash, but if occurs in the data, you get the following message):
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- echo CRC Error - File has been altered !
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- echo Happy EXE/COM Protecting!
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