How easy it is to decompile (reverse eng) a xHarbour app ?

[AHF]

Hi,

Does anyone knows how easy is to decompiled a xHarbour app.?

What are the main tools available for it ?

Regards
Antonio

[Antonio Linares]

Antonio,

If you don't want your application to be ever decompiled, then you should compress it using a tool like UPX and using a password so it may not be decompressed (btw, UPX seems not to support passwords).

[Rick Lipkin]

To All

Absolutely use a compression tool to keep anyone from de-compiling your app .. the comression tool we use is ASPack.

http://www.aspack.com

Compression gets you very fast load times typically a 2 mg executable shrinks down to around 700k .. an indespensible tool in your inventory.

Rick Lipkin

[AHF]

I'm trying Pecompact2 and it seems to be ok. Has password ecryption option.


Antonio

[Marc Vanzegbroeck]

Rick,

Are you using aspack with Vista. I have download the trial and after installing the program, the compression is working fine.
If I want to launch aspack again for compressing another program, I allways get an vista-error tha it can't be executed. After uninstalling and installing it again, it runs fine again, but only 1 time again.

Is this because it's the trial. I saw that the trial version was copyright 2002. Maybe it's an old version...

The compressed file keeps running fine


Regards,
Marc

[Rick Lipkin]

MArk

Vista works just fine for me .. however we have a site license and it is registered. We have a .reg file that we apply to license our version .. may be the difference.

Rick

[Marc Vanzegbroeck]

Rick,

The date of the exe in the trial is 15/1/2002 and the version is 2.12.
Maybe when you buy the software there is a newer version available...

Regards,
Marc

[Rick Lipkin]

Mark

I have the same executable .. ver 2.12 dated 01/15/2002.

RIck Lipkin