Happy New Year, Jos.

Naive? Did you read carefully? First, I said that sollock would leave the better/best crackers in the arena. Second, I did not say that refox is (currently) a cracker's tool. I know why it was developed in the first place.
What did I say? That the makers of refox would indeed be making a crackers tool if they would decide to tackle the sollock protection. That's not a naive response. That should be the response of us ALL!!!!!

>This is a very naive response Peter. Firstly crackers are not interested in what is legal. Secondly Refox is not first and foremost a crackers tool. It was originally developed to be able to recover lost source code from a VFP exe/app file. How many times has someone posted a message here asking for help to recover lost code from an exe file. Thirdly, Refox is not a crackers tool of choice. It's an off the shelf product which will work for circumventing the useless "debug off" and "vfp encryption on" compiler options.
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>>Well, if that's essentially all that sollock is doing, then it may prove to be an efficient anti-refox method and that would leave only the better/best crackers in the arena!
>>And if the makers of refox would decide to modify refox in a way that it also tackles the sollock-protection, then they would be doing some really illegal work, imo.
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>>>Refox is only going to decompile an exe that it "understands" - which is a basic straight forward compiled VFP exe. It cannot decompile an exe which has been modified in a way that it does not recognize anymore. However, just because Refox cannot decompile it does not mean you have any protection per se. It just means you have protection from Refox.
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>>>>Good morning,
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>>>>did you have the opportunity to test it against refox?
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>>>>I'm just curios.
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>>>>>Interesting...
>>>>>Wonder what this is in English..
>>>>>Sollock - Programa para Proteger Exe , contra decompiladores
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>>>>>Tan simple de usar como ejecutarlo , buscar el .exe a proteger y darle a Bloquear , aparece un mensaje de Bloqueado y pulsar Salir , ya esta. Esta escrito en VFP 7.0 y protegido con el propio programa , asi podreis comprobar si es o no eficaz. Evidentemente para que funcione correctamente necesitais tener las librerias de VFP 7.0
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>>>>>>I found and application named sollock programmed by a VFP programmer from Spain (I think) here is the site http://www.solges.net/ I downloaded it but I don’t have refox to test it against. It Is free so maybe some of you can test it.
>>>>>[snip]