The FAQ Struggle

FAQ About Serial Protections

Arno Vyncke — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:30:00 GMT

I just submitted a FAQ about Serial Protections to the Security section of the FAQ departement of VBCity.
As up to now, Stuart's FAQ about Time Trials was lonely in there...
Tomorrow, I don't have to go to school, and therefore, I took the time to write something tonight.
I was going to make it a small FAQ, not too much information, but well-explained.
I seem to have some kind of curse over me, once again this FAQ is more than 9000 characters...

I'm surprised I have written this FAQ this fast (didn't take me more than 2 hours), while I have this Time Trial FAQ start lying around, but I don't find the time to finish it (or is the courage...)
I promise you I'll finish it one day, question is when.

I'm going to start a FAQ on Advanced Serial Protections too, as this was a FAQ about a very basic protection.

See you around laddies

Started writing a new FAQ

Arno Vyncke — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:27:00 GMT

Yesterday, I finally started a FAQ that was planned quite a while ago.
The FAQ is showing how to try to protect your software against cracks.
I'll be writing a few, but this one is about using a time trial so your users can taste your application, but cannot use it for free.

I've already got some code that I can use, so that won't be a problem I suppose.
But I wish I knew how crackers these days crack VB applications. If you know this, you can build protections against that, but I don't know it right now. If people can point me in the right direction for finding information about this, I'd highly appreciate it. You can't protect yourself unless you know how the attack is done of course.

I'll try to finish the thing at the end of this week. I'm still busy updating http://aromax.bizhat.com too, as the catalogue isn't quite finished yet. What do you guys think about that website? I mean lay-out, as it's all Dutch, so you guys probably don't have a clue what is said.

Error Handling FAQ Problems

Arno Vyncke — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:26:00 GMT

ProcBodyLine, ProcStartLine, ProcCountLine ...
I've been struggling with these for a couple of hours today - trying to get my error handling add-in to work.
I can't write a FAQ about it if my example doesn't work huh?

Anyway - after looking up in the MSDN Library what the difference is between ProcBodyLine and ProcStartLine, and what exactly ProcCountLine does I decided I really don't like the way they handled it - but hey, at least I found my solution. My second FAQ is about Add-In Programming is coming up, and I'm hoping to do more in the future.

But first some Software Security FAQs - I once wrote a little article about the different methods - though it was lacking samples and thus didn't get through. Oh well, we'll just handle every subject on itself and create good examples with it I guess.