I wonder what kind of protection scheme is better.
The program alone + Arm3 or the program UPXed + Arm3 ?
Beside some incompatibilities i've already noticed, is it better to Arm a upxed program ? I've heard that it's easier to dump a non upxed program than a compressed one.
Any experience ?

thanks

Almost every protector out now is crackable so do yourself an favour and compress your exe only to save traffic costs. I would propose you upx. I doesn't matter what is "easyer", when its illegal cracked, it will be soon attainable to every dumb warez kid.

I know that Shoob, this is a fact.
Anyway anybody has any experience using upx + Arm ?

regards

Armadillo and upx? .. I never see a program packed with both ..

..u cann't protected a program with upx, aspack .. etc .. and armadillo in his modality of copymem 2.. u need use a standar option.. Logically this diminishes the protection degree.. the standar option it's really easy to unpack ....


I Unpack Easy Screen Capture ( Armadillo + Aspack protection) .. And it was very simple ..

Upx modified it's not a protection ... the only thing that it achieves on an upx having been modified is that not unwrapping automatic.....

Try protect with Pex..or using Aspack and Asprotect ..



Best Regards!

Thanks a lot S3ri@l CoDe9x

keep in mind that such exe protectors that gets fame as "armadillo" are only for developers with Poor brain to make their own protection scheme. makes the programs to take longer to load and takes much memory in the system.. i've used couple of trial with the newest armadillo and i could say in couple of time they crashed my system to make it reboot , example: HypersnapDX.. on some program armadillo dosen't work at all so i suggest to test your applications after wrapping them or packing them with any exe compressor... note that armadillo has been keyggened many times .. i could say he is the winner of been keygened more than asprotect ever was..

about UPX.. the best PE format, exe, dinamic library compressor ever made.. it is free, makes your application smaller.. what else i'm missing ? note that UPX is not a protector it could be a protector for some kids but the idea for UPX is to compress and not to protect... btw UPX is the best. good luck

Well cRk i know what you mean. I just have a "vertical market" application that need a form of protection. The problem is that i just want to distribute (legaly) this app so i don't have the source.
Just looking for some .exe protection and arm is the only one i know it protects quite well.
Of course it's crackable as everything. In my case a "vertical market" app is not such an interesting piece of code for most of us
I don't know if it's better to protect such an .exe using Copymem II (arm itself) or simple Arm protection over the upxed file.

thanks