>>According to help encrypting your exe will make it safer - why would you not encrypt? Is there a speed overhead? size? or ...
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>>Sarah
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>Not to mention, along with the other responses, 3rd party tools usually catch up to encryption and are able to unencrypt the file and recreate the code. So I don't bother anymore.

Thanks all for your responses, I'll flag the encryption and go for the plain option. Zipping's not a big issue, the exe is only 600k so all the support files take up the space but every little bit helps.

Mark - how big a problem in the US is the breaking of exe's? - Sarah