hey,
I havent found any info on this yet... so I was hoping some of you might have some ideas.

I am checking out a program that uses DemoShield. From what I gather DemoShield is something similiar to SafeDisc... It wraps an actual executable program which is launched by the protection program.

So... I am wondering if anyone has had any experience with dumping this program and rebuilding the original exe?

thanks for any ideas,
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Hello myAvatar !

As far as I know (since I'm using it), DemoShield is no protector or copy-protection, but a programm by "InstallShield Software" which is used for creating CD-Browsers and presentations.

It has usually has a file DEMO32.EXE and in older Versions (< 6.70) a file called DS32.DLL.

Try http://www.demoshield.com for more information.

I hope I could help you.

I knew it was something of the nature of InstallShield, but what made me liken it to SafeDisc was references to a DBD (I believe this was the extenssion, not at home to verify right now) file. One string reference said something like "Sorry, Demo Shield was not able to load your DBD file."

This DBD file seems to vary by each setup (which made me think it was like a compressed setup.exe or something), but I tried to view the resources with Resource Hacker & PE Analyser & neither recognized it as a WinEXE.

I am going to open it in hex & see what I can find....

Any additional ideas/comments/suggestions?

Thanks for the reply too!
myAvatar

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Hello myAvatar !

I don't know if I understood you correct, but DemoShield is no Copy-Protection. It is just something like "Macromedia Director" which helps you in creating CD-Browsers.
The .DBD file contains information about the demo and no serial check or something that is crackable. It gives the viewer only a nice looking presentation of the CD-context. (i.e. "Install", "Start", "Uninstall", "Readme", "Visit homepage", ...)
The buttons are linked to applications that exist on the CD.

If you want to see the "source" of a .DBD file, download a free try-it version of DemoShield from InstallShield ("http://www.installshield.com/product/default.asp?prod=demoshield"). (~25 MB)

You can enter any Information, but insert your real email address because you will recive a password to extract the files from the EXE. (you can also enter something like a@a.a, but you've to look for the password manually - so enter your real email address)

So you can view the demo, change it, extract images, videos, ...

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