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| Crackproof Your Software: Protect Your Software Against Crackers (With CD-ROM) | 
| Author: Pavol Cerven
Publisher: No Starch Press
Category: Book
List Price: $34.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (10 reviews)
Sales Rank: 856676
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 1886411794
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.8
UPC: 689145117943
EAN: 9781886411791
ASIN: 1886411794
Publication Date: October 2002
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Product Description
Crackproof Your Software is an essential resource for all software developers. It effectively teaches how to protect software against unauthorized copying and distribution. The book highlights weak points in seemingly well-protected programs. Software developers will learn how crackers break common protection schemes and how to defend against them. The book begins by introducing the developer to the techniques and programs most frequently used by crackers and discusses the basic types of protection and common protection errors. An in-depth discussion on anti-debugging and anti-disassembling details the many ways developers can protect their software. The book also includes a chapter of useful Internet resources. The CDROM contains compression and encoding software, debuggers and anti-debugging tricks, practical protection demonstrations, and unabbreviated examples from the book.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Covers the bases June 15, 2008
Nutshell review - The book covers the basics of protecting software and covers some protection tools. However, the world has too many protection options and schemes and evolves too fast for one book to do it all. Will date quickly.
 don't learn anything September 13, 2007
i bought this book thinking it will teach me the techniques used in cracking so that i can apply it in my development.
well, from that angle this book is a total disappointment. it doesn't even have a section that discusses the basic techniques, zilch!
one thing it does tell you is the methods used by various tools but the discussion is too cursory.
not worth buying this book. if you want to learn crackproofing or cracking, might as well scour the internet especially learning from the hacker sites.
i also wrote to the author. he never replied.
 Great Information For Programmers February 6, 2005
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
As fast as developers and vendors can pump out new software the crackers of the world break the protection schemes. Rather than paying a fair price for the software many people visit underground cracker sites and warez FTP sites to download illegally cracked versions of software.
This theft has a financial impact on the vendors and developers. Large companies like Microsoft lose tens of millions of dollars in revenue to pirated and illegally distributed software each year. Not that they are in the market of not making money, but losing $30 or $50 million is more or less a drop in the bucket to Microsoft and something they can absorb as the cost of doing business and simply write it off on their taxes. Joe Programmer sitting in his basement writing code 18 hours a day to create a fantastic new shareware program however might miss the money a little more.
If you are a freelance software developer or even a small software company this book may be just what you're looking for. Crackproof Your Software: Protect Your Software Against Crackers gives you the inside scoop on the techniques and tools used by crackers to break into your software.
Pavol Cerven helps the reader to understand the common errors developers make that make it easier for crackers to break in and shows a number of tips and hints to help the reader learn how to write crackproof code including how to thwart attempts to debug or disassemble the code.
I highly recommend this book for software developers.
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 Good overview of cracking prevention September 12, 2004
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Before I read this book I knew very little about cracking software. After reading this book I still know very little. I agree with the author when he says that to protect yourself, you need a good understanding of what you're up against. It also helps when you apply a protection method if you can check it against something. The book falls way short of teaching you ways to crack software.
However, I gave this book a good rating because I think it does a good job of giving the reader an overview of methods he can use against crackers. It covers disassembly detection, registration protection, use of dongles, CD copy protection, and compressing and encoding executables. It also provides a CD with several freeware/shareware programs you can use to protect your software. Keep in mind that the book deals exclusively with the Windows operating system.
 More of a FAQ than educational June 7, 2004
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
It's great that there's a book like this out to begin with, but I was disappointed to see the focus only on Windows applications and mostly on how to use existing tools to harden your software. It doesn't really cover as much as I would have liked to have seen on how to actually implement crack-resistant software. Much of the book's contents are FAQ-like and refer only to currently available tools (a very current practical approach versus a broader theoretical academic approach). If the exact problem you're trying to solve is explicitly addressed in this book, you're golden - if not, you're completely out of luck with regards to the book's information.
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