Protecting a 1.5 tgb game

#1 By luck, I've just seen an old post of Tom Bampton who speak about that:

Quote:UPX compressed executables have a string in that identifies they're using UPX (which the UPX license forbids removal of), and to decompress them is as simple as downloading UPX and doing upx -d myexe.exe

#2 @ Benjamin,

I've downloaded the UPX but it doesn't run neither in VISTA or XP... it is a dos program?

#3 I've used UPX on XP, so it should work just fine. I've never used it in Vista. It is a command line program. At least the version I've used didn't have a Windows GUI.

#4 Use start > execute > "cmd"
Then use the quoted command line (with complete paths), it should work fine on XP.

#5 1.Google "UPX GUI" to find a few GUI for UPX, that'll make easier use for that.

2.Unpack TGB.exe then you can pack it with your protector.

Hint:

If you don't like to bind main.cs.dso within your main executable in some way (MoleBox/Themida etc), you may need to compile it from source(with modification of course) to get it really protected, just pack the executable doesn't work pratically.

#6 @yoko,

i cant decompress the exe since it is not a UPX compressed file. Is there a nother way?

Thanks

#7 I can decompress "TorqueGameBuilder.exe" with UPX 2.3

Or, try this, I provided to tool for you:

UPX23_GUI.zip HOSTED FREE AT BOXSTR.COM