Security question !!!!

[DarkHo 0]

Hello autoit ppl. Is there a way to protect my scripting from hackers or soem way to make it really hard to hack or crack my programs ? If yes how ?

Thanks

[Melba23 2,861]

DarkHo,

Searching the forum will provide you with a lot more information in greater detail, but in brief:

- Your plain language script is within the compiled .exe, but in compressed form. It is not immediately viewable with a hex editor, but is by no means secure as it is expanded in memory when the .exe is run.

- Obfuscator (part of the full SciTE4AutoIt3 package) will obscure your script by changing variable and constant names (and a lot more!), which makes it harder to decompile but again does not render the .exe secure.

So, compiling an Autoit script will prevent quick snooping, but a determined, experienced hacker can relatively easily get your source - including passwords, specific filenames, etc - or the encryption routines you have used in your script to encrypt/decrypt them if they are stored in another file.

As I said above - go search the forum for more information as this question must have been asked at least once a week since I joined.

M23