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if i have a small program ,, any program how can i protect it from being installed or used in more than one computer after being .exe of course ????

Posted 8-Apr-13 12:28pm

herish1992

Updated 8-Apr-13 12:30pm

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herish1992 8-Apr-13 18:33pm

sorry i know its not a good question but i wanted to know how before i make it . exe

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See also my recent answer: after writting CD/ DVD protect from password[^].

—SA

Posted 10-Dec-15 4:53am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Richard MacCutchan 10-Dec-15 11:19am

ditto.

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fjdiewornncalwe · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-08T12:33:00

Solution 1

Copy protection is not a trivial task. There are many different ways of achieving some form of this, but none will be perfect. If the application is worth the effort, someone will figure out how to copy it. The best bet may be to evaluate if it is valuable enough to spend the time on copy protecting your application. If it is valuable enough, then you have much reading and study ahead of you in implementing a solution:
See these results[^] as a starting point.

Posted 8-Apr-13 12:33pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-Apr-13 18:46pm

My 5. However, I would think that protection can hardly pay off, unless the code is super valuable. The regular user will hardly even try to reverse engineering, but the one who really determined to do it...
The companies providing reverse engineering solutions claim that, for .NET applications, any applications protected by any of well-known protection products can be easily reverse engineered.
—SA

herish1992 9-Apr-13 18:55pm

thank you both , the thing is i have a home work i only need a very simple idea if you can show me other wise its not important , thanks