- A must-read for shareware programmers who want to protect their work
- Comprehensive and well-written coverage of the topic
- Accompanying CD is filled with useful compression and encoding programs and more
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- Software programmers can learn how crackers go about breaking into software and how to stop them
- Introduces techniques and programs used by crackers and common errors made by programmers
- Detailed coverage of anti-debugging and anti-disassembly techniques
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.