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[Valik]

Applications that phone home are usually viewed with a suspicious eye. I usually deny applications internet access unless I determine I'm the cause of the access attempt.

[Joon]

How about putting a timestamp file in SYSTEM32, then do FileFindNextFile whole directory. Make it more difficult to track using FileMon.

[big_daddy]

How about putting a timestamp file in SYSTEM32, then do FileFindNextFile whole directory. Make it more difficult to track using FileMon.

If you tell filemon to just log writes then it will only show the file being created or wrote to.

[slightly_abnormal]

I would guess unless you are able to run a server and track installation an licensing when a program starts the way Adobe/Macromedia are now doing, there are probably not many methods that can't be defeated.

they phone home?

[billmez]

they phone home?

They do at least through the activation process. I suspect they store an installation record and a unique hardware key so if you try to acitvate it from another system it won't let you. Their licensing allows a desktop and laptop copy.

[nfwu]

Another solution will be to use all registry, modified exe, and hidden ini - then if they don't syncronize, that means that the user tampered with them.

Use different encription methods with each.

The goal is to make it AS HARD AS POSSIBLE, *not* impossible (as that will not be possible).

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