Anyone else run into this one? - although it didn't really get in the way of what I was doing, I did a little bit of research on it and it appears that we may be seeing more of it since it's essentially free, the verbage used to describe it, "protect your code from lamers cracking it", indicates that it was devised by someone from the RE community, it uses SFX based compression, and seems to be relatively easy to unpack but I'm not really sure if I was successful, since it was a .dll and not implemented in the .exe and was not really a factor for me.

SiGiNT

Don't you mean Ionworx SerialShield ? Ionworx is the same company which created ICE License ... see hxxp://www.ionworx.com/serialshield.html for an overview of the product... quote from website:



Hehehe, so no problem using OllyDBG I guess

Yep, it's definitely IonWorx, It didn't bother me on my particular project, it was included in a Demo - I used a no-brainer technique, I downloaded the full version, (a password protected .msi), decompressed the install package and replaced the demo .exe with the real deal. But being curious I unpacked the .dll and wanted to compare notes, but couldn't find any RE info on this one.

Nope olly doesn't have a problem with it and it really didn't look hard to RE either fish or patch.

SiGiNT