This essential resource for software developers highlights the weak points in "well-protected" software, shows how crackers break common protection schemes, and how to defend against crackers. Includes in-depth discussions of anti-debugging and anti-disassembling. The CD-ROM contains compression and encoding software, debuggers and anti-debugging tricks, practical protection demonstrations, and extended examples from the book.
Pavol Cerven is a software developer with Alcatel. After a brief stint in the world of PC viruses, he now works to protect software against unauthorized copying.