Thanks for everyone's replies so far re. this, but would like opinions of
anyone who has used any commercial products, and whether they worked for them.
e.g. products like Avlock, or Exeshield
The main thing I am interested in is stopping people just emailing the .exe
and the 'password' to a friend of theirs, so that they can access the
application (unauthorised).
I'm not concerned about crackers - if they want to go to that much trouble,
then I'm not bothered.
Again, I don't want to be bogged down with admin, so would like a simple
solution - New user emails me, I send him back a unique code and a link to
download the software - He downloads the software, keys in the code, and that
locks it to his computer only.
Regards,
Steve Bowker
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22/02/2007 12:18
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Subject
Delphi Digest, Vol 49, Issue 18
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a standard delphi .exe that I want to distribute to authorised
> Users, but do not want the application to be copied/sent to their
> friends/colleagues.
> I need a way of linking the executable to a specific computer, and only
> allowing it to run on that machine. I have already looked at using the
> disk serial number to make the computer unique, so that if John sent the
> executable to Fred, it wouldn't work on his compuer because the disk
> serial number is different. But, the administration of this is a bit
> unwieldy, because Fred would have to run a program to tell him his unique
> disk serial number, he would email it to me, and I could then save it to
a
> server, and have the application check the disk serial number on startup
-
> or something similar.
>
> Basically, I'd like some advice on how to best control software &
> distribution easily, quickly, and cheaply - preferably by using a Delphi
> component, or by any other easy method
>
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