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diff --git a/help/en/about_vmprotect.htm b/help/en/about_vmprotect.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..10a6e25 --- /dev/null +++ b/help/en/about_vmprotect.htm @@ -0,0 +1,207 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> + +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> +<head> + <link rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" href="default.css" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content= + "text/html; charset=utf-8" /> + + <title>What is VMProtect?</title> + <style type="text/css"> + </style> +</head> + +<body> + <h1>What is VMProtect?</h1> + + <p>VMProtect is a new generation of software protection utilities. VMProtect supports + Delphi, Borland C Builder, Visual C/C++, Visual Basic + (native), Virtual Pascal and XCode compilers. At the same time VMProtect has a built-in + disassembler that works with Windows and Mac OS X executables, + and also can link a MAP-file created by the compiler to quickly select fragments of code for protection. + For easy automation of application protection tasks, VMProtect implements a built-in script language. + VMProtect fully supports 32/64-bit operating systems of the Windows family starting from Windows 2000, and Mac OS X starting from version 10.6. + Importantly, regardless of the target platform, VMProtect supports all range of executables, that is, the Windows version can work with files from the Mac OS X version and vice versa.</p> + + <p>The cornerstone principle of VMProtect is to provide efficient protection of the application code from + examination by making the application code and logic very complex for further analysis and cracking. + Main software code protection mechanisms VMProtect applies are: virtualization, mutation, and combined protection that + involves mutation of the application code with subsequent virtualization.</p> + + <p>The crucial advantage of the virtualization method used in VMProtect is + the fact that the virtual machine executing virtualized fragments of code is embedded into the resulting code of the protected application. + Therefore, the app protected with VMProtect needs no third-party libraries or modules to function. + VMProtect allows using several different virtual machines to protect different fragments of code of the same application resulting in even more complicated + cracking process, because a hacker now has to analyze architecture of multiple virtual machines. + </p> + + <p>The method of application code mutation applied in VMProtect is based on obfuscation — a process that adds to the application code + various excessive, "garbage" commands, "dead" parts of the code, random conditional jumps. + It also mutates original commands and transfers execution of certain operations to the stack. + </p> + + <p>The key difference of VMProtect from other software protectors is its ability to protect different parts of the code with different methods: + part of the code can be virtualized, the other part is obfuscated and critical fragments are protected using the combined method.</p> + + <p>To prevent false positives from antiviruses the registered version of VMProtect uses the + <a href="http://standards.ieee.org/develop/indconn/icsg/taggant.pdf">Taggant</a> library that signs the protected file with a certificate of the license owner.</p> + + <p>Another unique feature of VMProtect is embedding of <a href= + "dictionary.htm#Watermarks">watermarks</a> to the code of the application. Watermarks allow to definitely identify the official + owner of the hacked copy of the program, and therefore to take certain measures to him or her.</p> + + <p>VMProtect is available in 3 editions:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Lite;</li> + <li>Professional;</li> + <li>Ultimate;</li> + </ul> + + <p>The below table lists differences in functionality of certain VMProtect editions:</p> + + <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"> + <tr align="center"> + <td rowspan="2" align="center"> + <strong>Capabilities</strong></td> + + <td colspan="3" align="center"><strong> + VMProtect edition</strong></td> + </tr> + + <tr align="center"> + <td width="12%" align="center">Lite</td> + <td width="12%" align="center">Professional</td> + <td width="12%" align="center">Ultimate</td> + </tr> + + <tr bgcolor="#E0E0E0"> + <td align="left" colspan="4" class="c1"><strong>Protection methods</strong></td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>Mutation</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>Virtualization</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>Ultra (mutation+virtualization)</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>Console version</td> + <td align="center">-</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + </tr> + + <tr bgcolor="#E0E0E0"> + <td align="left" colspan="4"><strong>Protection options</strong></td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>Memory protection</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>Import protection</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>Resource protection</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>Packing</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>Debuger detection</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>Virtual box detection</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + </tr> + + <tr bgcolor="#E0E0E0"> + <td align="left" colspan="4"><strong>Service functions</strong></td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>Watermarks</td> + <td align="center">-</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>Script language</td> + <td align="center">-</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>Licensing system</td> + <td align="center">-</td> + <td align="center">-</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>License manager</td> + <td align="center">-</td> + <td align="center">-</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td>File protection</td> + <td align="center">-</td> + <td align="center">-</td> + <td align="center">+</td> + </tr> + </table> + + <br /> + <br /> + <br /> + <br /> + <hr noshade="noshade" size="1" /> + + <div align="center"> + © 2006-2015 Copyright VMProtect Software + </div> +</body> +</html> |