Hello I come from Mexico and I need his help.

I need to do a system that the software preserve from piracy, that means that it not be possible to copy of a computer to another computer.
As this in Visual Basic can be done?. Please he is for semester's project of ending.

If can help to me my mail is [email protected] and thanks for its help.

You may have a look at the following issue.

http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20446. I have put two links in it which may be of help to you.

The baisc technique is :

When the program is run for the first time, you can run an another exe which will read the hard disk serial number, encrypt it and store this in registry. Make sure that this portion of the program can be run only once. After this is run, you can delete this check exe.

Whenever the program starts find the hard disk serial number, and cross match with one in registry.

Hello
There are technical ways to protect software so that it can be loaded only once. . I propose a very technical process to use when a Developer want to protect his soft or his application from piracy. That’s will stop people from getting access to use it , in this way you can to sell your soft ONLINE or on CDs in full security.
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