- switched to vc8 from vc6 (2 hard working weeks for fixing few thousand errors&warnings, finding hacks against new ms copiler/linker limitations etc.);
- first attempts to implement a debug blocker;
- fixed some memory leaks inside expressor.exe (aka _CRTDBG_MAP_ALLOC);
- changed the PRNG related to RSA key generation due to a critical error; we advise you to change the project RSA key pairs because the registration keys generated with eXPressor prior to ver 1.7 are vulnerable; this will require to regenerate and send new keys to your clients;
- fixed a bug which caused an error if canceling the packing process was too quick;
- enabled "Select plugin..." in "General Options" tab; was disabled by mistake;
- added Option to fake PE's signature; you can add custom signature;
- added a tree control in Splash Property Page to make some room for other things; worked for a while at this control's keyboard support because default implementation didn't supported it;
- added option to choose hardware ID string generation based on cpu,hdd,installed ram;
- added Configuration type; ie: protect only, one touch trial (OTT registration without api);
- fixed a bug in expressor.dll; keys generated were invalid if the program had encrypted code fragments;
- added support for UNICODE registration names via UTF8 to be used with ShareIt etc;
- the news are inside the help file ;)
eXPressor features:
-excelent compression ratios ~70%
(this is - tighter than .rar, .zip, upx etc.);
-multilevel packing (over and over the same file);
-support for various 32bit PE files like .exe, .dll, .net, .ocx, .scr;
-customizable resource compression;
-password protection for applications;
-counteraction to classical memory dumping tools;
-detection of cracking tools like file or registry monitors, debuggers;
-application integrity check (agains viruses, resource modifications);
-anti-debugging and anti-disassembling;
-anti memory patching techniques;
-protection of application's imported functions using different methods (emulation etc.);
-eXPressor offers a set of APIs for interaction betweend decompressing routines and protected applications;
-registration keys system using RSA based encryption/decryption algorithm; -keys can be generated using specific hardware ID; say STOP to your application keygenerators;
-"stolen" registration keys management, integration of stolen keys in new protected versions of the application;
-eXPressor offers the possibility of creating "trial" versions of the application, with limited functionality, and limited evaluation time or number of executions;
-reminder message in unregistered version of protected programs;
-shell integration, project file saving, command line support and more
