WinLicense功能

WinLicense可以保护自己的程序不被先进的反向工程和黑客破解。开发者不需要更改任何的源代码，也不需要经验即可使用WinLicense。

WinLicense使用SecureEngine保护技术，它能够以最高的优先等级运行。这些保护方案首次运用在电脑防御技术领域，使它的保护功能利用最大化。

WinLicense保护功能特点：

• Ÿ多层加密措施，保护程序的代码和资料。

• SecureEngine是一项独创的保护技术,以最高的优先度运行。

• Ÿ扰乱程序的运行代码、资料和 API， 使软件破解者难以对程序进行还原。

• Ÿ针对反汇编器和反编译器进行加密保护，并具有黑客工具监测功能。

• Ÿ可以创建试用版本的各种失效种类，如天数限制，次数限制，等等。还可以用来延长试用版本的有效期。

• 拥有强大的存储试用状态的引擎，可避免软件破解者重置有效期。并可为试用版本和完全版本制定独的密码。

• 可以根据开发者的需要创建不同的注册码，并可进行硬件绑定，使程序只能运行在特定的计算机上。

• Ÿ自定义所有的试用 / 注册信息，也可控制是否要显示特定的试用 / 注册讯息。

保护功能：同类产品比较

WinLicense与其他产品最不同的是，它可以弥补所有现行软件的保护技巧上的漏洞。很多软件保护软件自称是对抗软件破解的完美解决方案，可是事实并非如此。以下的列表列出了WinLicense如何弥补两个最主要的弱点：

• 过时的保护技术：一般来说，软件保护层使用的技术是过时的，有些可以用最新的黑客工具破解。即使最新的软件保护层也只是拷贝了旧的软件保护层，然后加入一些新的对抗软件破解的技巧，但功能不强。WinLicense使用最新最高级的技术，来检测任何用来破解软件的漏洞。确保每个 程序都被特别保护，以避免一般的破解攻击。

• 运行受到操作系统的限制: 现行的软件保护层只可以在一般模式下运行。也就是说，这些保护层无法在内核模式下使用。而WinLicense的部分代码却可以在 内核模式下运行，可以应对最新的软件破解技术。因此，WinLicense具有独一无二的保护层。

WinLicense注册管理功能

WinLicense提供最广泛的选项和特点来创建目标 程序的试用版或完全版。软件开发者可以通过一套完整的 SDK 与WinLicense沟通，检查试用版或完全版程序现在的状态。WinLicense还有自动处理所有可能状况的功能，例如：当一个程序过期时，注册就失效，等等。

WinLicense注册管理功能特点:

• 可以创建各种失效种类的试用版本，像是某某天后失效，某某运行次数后实效，在某某日期失效，某某分钟后失效等等。

• 可以创建特别码，用来延长试用版本的有效期。

• 强大的用来存储试用状态的引擎，避免任何软件破解者尝试重置有效期。

• 可以为个别开发者的需要创建不同的注册码。

• 针对特定国家的试用锁定和注册码。

• 机器锁定，使程序只运行在特定的电脑上。

• 可自定义试用计算器，来控制试用版本的有效资源。

• 为试用版本和完全版本制定独立的密码。

• 可以使用外部 WinLicense DLL 来创建你的自动化系统。

• 超过 50 种的完整 SDK函数 。

• 为试用版和完全版提供 .NET SDK 支援。

• 所有的软件，客户和注册资料将安全地存储在数据库中。

• 使用嵌入式产成器创建注册码，试用期延续码以及密码。

• 自定义所有的试用 / 注册讯息，还可以控制是否要展示特定的试用 / 注册讯息。

注册管理：同类产品比较

很多注册管理器都有为程序加入试用和注册的功能。但是，它们并没有相关的保护措施。因此，任何人都可以使用破解工具重置程序的试用日期。而WinLicense可以避免这样的漏洞 。

我们列出了现行注册管理器普遍存在的漏洞以及WinLicense如何解决这些漏洞。

• 一成不变的软件注册方式 : 大多数的注册管理器只提供几种注册方式。因此，为了迁就所使用的注册管理器，开发人员只能修改他们的程序。WinLicense提供了多种注册程序的方法，总有一种方法适用在你的程序上。

• 控制试用/注册状态的SDK很有限: 大多数注册管理器提供的SDK函数很有限。然而，由于受到这有限的函数功能，开发者往往在编制注册方式进他们的程序时受到限制。WinLicense的 SDK 出口超过 50 个函数，让开发者完全的掌控他们程序的试用 / 注册状况。而且，这当中许多的函数更会在掌控程序的试用 / 注册状况方面提供开发者更多的点子。

• 容易重置的试用期限: 很多的注册管理器看来非常的吸引，也像是个在为程序创建试用期限很好的方案。可是，当开发者开始使用这些管理器，而且也慢慢发现要使用黑客工具重置这些受保护程序的试用期限是何等容易的时候，问题就产生了。WinLicense却提供一个强劲的方案，它使用的是一个称为 Trial Storing Manager® 的复杂引擎来储存试用期限。这引擎使软件破解者要想重置受保护的程序的试用期限时面临非常大的困难。

• 在机器锁定注册的弱点: 很多的注册管理器提供可以锁定特定机器的注册码。它们是通过特定的视窗注册表项目或普遍的视窗 API 来获得一些硬件的资料，从而获得机器的独特 ID 。这方式的机器锁定注册却存在着一个极大的危险。这是因为人们可以私自更改机器 ID 来使用一个本来已经锁定在另一台机器的注册软件。WinLicense了解这个危险，所以它直接使用 SecureEngine® Kernel Mode 技术来获取机器的 ID 。软件破解者无法真正地更改他们机器 ID ，所以也就无法启动WinLicense锁定在其他机器的注册软件。

看过来！

无论你是程序员还是产品经理，都需要保护你的软件。每年因为软件被破解或被非法使用而造成的经济损失非常大。因此，你需要采取措施来保护自己的软件不受到非法的使用。请让WinLicense为您代劳吧！

WinLicense as a Software Protector

WinLicense is a powerful protection system designed for software developers who wish to protect their applications against advanced reverse-engineering and software cracking. Developers do not need any source code changes or programming experience to protect their applications with WinLicense.

WinLicense uses SecureEngine® protection technology, which is able to run its code at the highest priority level to implement never before seen protection techniques; this protects any application with the highest level of security.

Here are just a few of WinLicense's protection features:

Comparing WinLicense with other Software Protectors

The main objective of WinLicense is to cover all current vulnerabilities in software protection. Most software protection programs claim to be the perfect solution against cracking, but this is far from reality. In the following list, we present the two main weaknesses in most software protectors and how WinLicense covers them.

•  Obsolete protection techniques: Normally, software protectors use obsolete protection techniques that can be easily defeated with newest cracking tools. Even the newest software protectors are just a copy of older software protectors with just some new and not-very powerful techniques against software cracking. WinLicense uses a new and very advanced technology that detects any possible cracking attempt of an application and ensures each application is uniquely protected to avoid general attacks.

•  Restricted execution by the OS: Current software protectors can only run their code with a “normal” privileges level. This means that they cannot implement advanced protection techniques which can only be executed in Kernel Mode, the highest operating system priority level. WinLicense runs parts of its code in Kernel Mode to implement the most advanced techniques against modern cracking, making it a unique protector.

WinLicense as License Manager

WinLicense offers the widest range of options and features to create both trial and registered versions for an application. Developers can communicate with WinLicense to check the current state of the trial or registered versions of their application through a complete SDK. WinLicense also offers the capability to automatically handle all possible situations, such as when an application expires, a license is corrupted, etc., saving developers from including extra code into their applications.

Some of the most important licensing features included in WinLicense are:

Comparing WinLicens with other License Managers

Many license managers seem very easy to use to add trial and licensing support inside an application. Then, when the developer needs extra licensing features or extra protection to protect sensible trial data, they get frustrated with the license manager that they use. In many cases, even amateur programmers that don't have knowledge in cracking and reversing tools can easily reset the trial period in protected applications. WinLicense was developed specifically to cover this vulnerability.

In the following, we present the main weaknesses in current license managers and how WinLicense solves them.

•  Rigid License registration: Most license managers define the way that an application can be registered, offering limited ways to license an application. This forces developers to adapt their applications to the licensing system that they use, instead of the license manager adapting to a specific application. WinLicense offers multiple ways to license an application, fitting into any kind of program without limiting the developer's ideas to license his/her applications.

•  Limited SDK to control the trial/licensing status: Most license managers offer a limited set of SDK functions to interact with the license manager. Subsequently, developers are limited in implementing their licensing ideas due to the lack of a function in the license manager. WinLicense exports more than 50 functions with its SDK to allow full control over the trial/licensing status in an application; many of these functions will give ideas to the developer for adding extra features into the application.

•  Easy resetting of the trial period: Many license managers look very attractive and appear to be good solutions for creating trial periods in an application. The problem appears when a developer protects an application and realizes how easy it is to reset the trial period in the protected application by using cracking tools, leaving the trial application totally unprotected and open to infinite use. WinLicense offers the strongest solution available to store the trial period in a system through a complex engine called Trial Storing Manager®. This engine makes it extremely difficult for attackers to reset the trial period in any protected application with WinLicense.

•  Weaknesses in machine-locked licenses: Many license managers offer support to lock a license key to a specific machine. To get the ID for a specific machine, they rely on specific Windows registry keys or common Windows API to get hardware information about a machine. This presents a major vulnerability in locked license keys due to the possibility of manually changing the machine ID and running an application that was locked to another machine. WinLicense is aware of that vulnerability, so the machine ID is obtained directly from the hardware using the SecureEngine® Kernel Mode technology. Attackers are unable to manipulate the real machine ID in their computers, so they cannot run applications that were locked to another computer.

Conclusion

If you are in software development, be it something as simple as a shareware programmer or a position as high as a project manager, you need to protect your software. While estimates on how much money is lost annually from cracking and fraudulent use of software vary wildly, the point is that money is lost…not just money, but your money. All software developers need to take steps to protect their programs from being used illegitimately; let WinLicense do that for you.

Here are just a few of WinLicense's protection features:

• Multilevel encryption to protect code and data in an application.
• Advanced detection of cracking tools.
• Execution of code the highest level of priority to implement never before seen protection techniques.
• Scrambles executable code, data, and APIs in the application to avoid any possible reconstruction of the original application.
• Protection against all disassemblers and debuggers.
• SDK offers two-way communication with SecureEngine® and the protected application.
• Advanced technology which prevents dumping from memory to disk.
• Fully customizable protection options and dialogs.

Trial/Licensing Features:

• Machine dependent keys
• SmartActivate® keys for elegant registration systems
• Multiple trial expiration types
• Possibility to combine several expiration types for trial and license keys
• Powerful engine to store the trial period in the system
• Complete SDK with more than 50 exported functions
• Full .NET SDK support
• Custom trial counters SDK for different developer’s needs
• Easy support to create your own licensing systems via web server
• Country locking for trial and license keys
• Trial extension keys to extend the trial in an expired application
• Text keys registrations
• File key registrations
• Registry keys registrations
• Independent password protection for either Trial or registered versions
• Expirable license keys
• Tracking and detection of stolen keys
• Customization for all trial/registration messages with possibility to include/exclude them from being displayed by WinLicense
• Embedded generators in GUI to create licenses, passwords and trial extensions keys
• Specific key generators can be automatically generated for every protected application
• Custom data field in license keys for different developer’s needs
• Database driven implementation to keep safe record of all your software, customers and licenses

Protection Features:

• Anti-debugger techniques that detect/fool any kind of debugger
• Anti-memory dumpers techniques for any Ring3 and Ring0 dumpers
• Different encryption algorithms and keys in each protected application
• Anti-API scanners techniques that avoids reconstruction of original import table
• Automatic decompilation and scrambling techniques in target application
• Virtual Machine emulation in specific blocks of code
• Advanced Mutator engine
• SDK communication with protection layer
• Anti-disassember techniques for any static and interactive disassemblers
• Multiple polymorphic layers with more than 50.000 permutations
• Advanced API-Wrapping techniques
• Anti-monitors techniques against file and registry monitors
• Random garbage code insertion between real instructions
• Specialized protection threads
• Advanced Threads network communication
• Anti-Memory patching and CRC techniques in target application
• Metamorphic engine to scramble original instructions
• Advanced Entry point protection
• Dynamic encryption in target application
• Anti-tracing code insertion between real instructions
• Advanced Anti-breakpoint manager
• Real time protection in target application
• Compression of target application, resources and protection code
• Anti-“debugger hiders” techniques
• Full mutation in protection code to avoid pattern recognition
• Real-time simulation in target application
• Intelligent protection code insertion inside target application
• Random internal data relocation
• Possibility to customize dialogs in protected application
• Support of command line