>Jumping into this thread late ... but you could also use a product like Molebox to statically link DLL/FLL's into a single EXE that gets signed by digital signature that is checked when the EXE starts up.
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>Note: MoleBox is a great product (highly recommended) but it is currently not compatible with DLL/FLL's compiled with VS Studio 2005. If you're going to use the technique I described above, you need to make sure you are using the VS 2003 builds (MSCVR71.DLL runtime) of Craig's FLL's.
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>Malcolm

Yes I'm using a similar solution for now but I'm trying to think of an alternative that might be used without an executable packer.