Dear all VB Programmers ;

While surfing I came across one tool from AnalogX (website : http://www.analogx.com) called as TextScan which actually scans the EXE and gives whole information about it as which OCX are used and lot more.

This is certainly exposing the thinking and resources behind the software. So , just wanted to ask you all that is there any way to protect VB Compiled EXEs from such programs ? Or else an alternative VB Compiler which will produce EXEs which can't be scanned by such software tools ?

Please reply to this thread ... I'm eager to know your thoughts on this ...

Ruturaj

Dear Ruturai,

I do not think this a question for VB programmers... :)
In order to run an application must be in a exe format, which is very well
known, thus I do not see how to protect it. But we know that nothing
is impossible... if you do not find any anserws here I suggest you to
look in other forums. BTW why do you want to prevent that?

Marco

Try EXECryptor from www.strongbit.com. I think it will help you in your EXE (and not only) file protection.

http://www.exetools.com/protectors.htm - A bit old, cool crypters, and this one: http://programmerstools.org/taxonomy/term/17
 they're both really good :)

--cheers:)

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Anybody knows any software protection tool for Win32 apps based on code obfuscation like EXECryptor?

EXECryptor is built on not just on code obfuscation. Obfuscation is usually used for .Net. There is about Code morphing http://www.strongbit.com/execryptor_inside.asp