>>>"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!"

It might be an anti-Refox tool but this really offers you very little protection. It is naive because you seem to think that Refox is the biggest threat to your app being decompiled.

As an example, back in 2001 another "anti-Refox" tool was developed, also from a Spanish company, (possibly the same as Sollock but under a different name - I dont know). Update: It was argued that this tool could also be broken About WWF-VFP to avoid decompilations Thread #575688 Message #575688. So called Refox protected apps have also been cracked.

The point is that developing these types of systems is very complex and there are usually many different avenues of attack that the protection product developers never even think of.

HNY to you too Peter.



>Happy New Year, Jos.
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>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!!!!!
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>>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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