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Shetab SoftLock designed to protect your software against illegal copies, and controls software distribution and registration.

Why we should protect our software?
Protection methods
DLL base software protection
Shetab Softlock
Distribution management
SoftLock Specifications
How can I use Shetab SoftLock?
How end user registers protected software?
How to buy?

Why we should protect our software?

Nowadays protecting software form illegal copy and distribution is important. Row materials of software production are knowledge, time and money, which spend on it. You can copy your software enormous times easily. Governments trying to protect software producer's rights by legislating copyright lows. Even with this lows statistic shows illegal copying is high, for example in Germany 87% of users illegally use software copies. Software producers try to protect their software by copy protection mechanisms and registration mechanisms.

Shetab SoftLock designed to protect your software from illegal use; it even gathers important data from your customers, and uses internet or phone line to collect registration information. You can more than only a protection.

Protection methods

we have three deferent methods for software protection.

Dongles

Dongle is a device that plugs in a computer port and software only works if the dongle validate the software.

Dongles are hard to crack (depend on the dongle price). Dongles are expensive, so they are not suitable for most software, in this method you do not collect any information from end user. You have to send dongle with your software and it restricts you online sells.

CD Locks

In this method, data stores on CDs by specific techniques so CD is not copy able by regular CD copy programs.

This method is cheep but it is not reliable because we have many copy programs that can copy these CDs, and if your CD copier program cannot copy it only wait for newer version or try another one. In this method, end user cannot backup his/her CD and if for any reason CD corrupts, he/she should buy another one. Like dongles you can't collect any information from your end user and you should send CDs physically which restricts your Online sells.

Internet Locks

In this method, software gets necessary permission from a specific site and runs properly in client computer.

Now days Internet is available for most users this method is cheap and if you use it correctly it is hard to crack. Most useful characteristic of this method is its ability to collect end user information, like E-mail, name …; you can sell your software over internet with out any problem.

DLL base software protection

In this method, you need to change your source code to call needed protection functions so you should be familiar with programming. You should be check DLL accuracy before calling these functions, because any body can replace your DLL with fake one.

You cannot protect your exe files directly because you need to change you source code. Because you do not use any code ciphering, it is easy to change assembly code, and you cannot protect your resources like Images and sound files.

Shetab Softlock

After vast analyzing and research, Shetab cooperation, introduces new generation of internet-phone type protection. Shetab SoftLock is an advance protection pack, which helps you to protect your software without even one line programming. Your software protects, packs, encrypts, then it become one stable executable file. All works have done automatically. This progress takes one minute at max. Now you can spend your valuable time on other products, and Shetab SoftLock handles all protection tasks.

Easy to use

You do not need any specific programming knowledge to use Shetab SoftLock. Simple user guide will help you to protect your software without even one line programming.

Pack and Ciphering

Shetab SoftLock packs and ciphers your files in a standard way to protect it against reverse engineering. These files will unpack on memory in runtime to make your software harder to crack.

Protect your resources

You can encrypt your resources like images, sound files, text files … Shetab SoftLock packs and encrypts this files for you, depend on packer you choose in SoftLock, it even packs your files with your exe file.

 

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Distribution management

Successful producer tracks its distribution channels to decide sells policies wisely.

To take a decision, you need to answer these questions. Which reseller acts better? Did your advertisements have an acceptable result? Which cities are a potential market? Did your end user uses your software and who is he?

If you answer these questions correctly you can make a future.

Big software vendors like Microsoft, Norton, and Adobe try to track their customers; this is why they use serial numbers.

Shetab Softlock protects your software and helps you to answer these questions.

With Shetab SoftLock, you target two important software development aspects, protection and sells tracking.

SoftLock Specifications

  • Easy to use
  • Encrypt final file
  • Unlimited serial number generation
  • Automatic site generator for Internet support
  • Answering Machine
  • Steady Activation Code
  • Easy to use functions for programmers
  • Create Demo version for your software
  • Powerful serial manager
  • Define accompanied data for each serial number
  • Customize able user interface
  • Standard AES and RSA ciphering for activation code generation
  • Compatible with Serial-ATA and SCSI hard disks
  • Compatible with XP64
  • Do not required administrator privilege for authorization.

How can I use Shetab SoftLock?

Shetab SoftLock is easy to use software, you can protect you software in less than a minute. You do not need any programming skill to protect your software. Protected software does not needed to install extra driver for protection.

If you are a programmer, you can call Shetab SoftLock functions to protect your software and make it even harder to crack.

How end user registers protected software?

He/She can register software via two different methods:

Internet

In this method, end user has to have an internet access to register his/her software. He/She enters serial number and after authentication software start to work.

By Phone

In this method, end user contacts with software vendor, then gets a valid activation code, and runs his /her software.

Shetab SoftLock has a built in Answering machine to manage needed procedure for activation code hour. It reads

 

How to buy?

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