Software Copy Protection

[chris]

Hi,

can you please suggest any good software copy protection programs ?

I have 3 programs (Vb6, MS Access, Excel & Power Point) that can run on the
same machine, same time and I would like to include some security for
protecting unauthorised installations.

Thanks a lot in advance.

 

[Tom van Stiphout]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:31:01 -0700, chris

The strongest protection comes from having a device in some computer
port that your code can check. These devices are often called dongles,
or hasps.
A step down from that is what most software companies do nowadays: the
user needs to enter an unlock code and it gets checked over the
internet (or the telephone) with a database of codes.

-Tom.
Microsoft Access MVP

 

[pddxxx]

We have a product that provides copy protection for Access
applications. It uses hardware ID numbers on the end user's computer
to act as a sort of software dongle. It's called KeyedAccess and you
can download a demo from http://www.peterssoftware.com/ka.htm

There's also SageKey Application Security that does something similar:
http://www.sagekey.com/security_details.aspx

Hope this helps,

Peter De Baets
Peter's Software - Microsoft Access Tools for Developers
http://www.peterssoftware.com