... too lazy to look for an easter egg :) ...

Haha but you know...there are only SOME PDF-files there are wrong....ehm, message. And I was tired to scan .dll and .exe files :p. But hope you put an special message for unsupported files ;)

the bugs u reported are fixed.
i´ve sent u v3.6 beta to test...

Well I am impress :D

Battlefield 1942 working great!

And I've seen you added "scan for cd-checks" in a cracked SecuROM message.

But look at this:

this is from ColdFusion shouldn't Protection Scanner find UPX compress?

And when I've scan a none .dll, .exe, .dat file, it's says "not a valid .exe file" and more, but the thing is. after that message, the scanner crash. Maybe that's a god thing....or not...:D
What happen to -> 20MB limit question?
I've scanned battefield 1942 1.41 patch that's about 130 MB or something... took very long time.... :p

Anyway great program! You have done well with bug fixing ;)

Scan Razor's crack for that new Nascar update... ;)

When i scan the original/not cracked YDKJ4.EXE (You Don't Know Jack 4 / german version) Protection ID V3.5 tells me
"File was protected with SecuROM. But the protection has been cracked."
But when i want to play the game with a normal backup cd insert it tells me the SecuROM "Wrong disc" message...

@CDKiller:
If you want the original exe tell me. I will send it to you. (Its RAR 2,2 MB)

lol Nascar_Racing_2003_Season_v1.2.0.1_Patch-RazorDOX
is lame ;)

@krondike
UPX will now be detected even if the sections and the tags are removed.

"not a valid .exe file" + crash => it was a bug with the multiscan feature, now fixed.

@glh
i know about this problem with the newer securom.
i´m still on bugfixing the securom code.

I've got a big suggestion again... when you mark more then 1 files, and right click and "Scan with Protection ID" many protection id console are open... what about just have one protection id console but many message... istead....


There are still problems with UPX detection... I've compressed an .exe file with UPX and it's don't find it.

but his work
edit: (hehe i found a forum bug also)

my gues is that the protection ID is looking for UPX! as a tag....


SafeDisc 2.10 is found in a cracked SafeDisc 2.10 file..
Black And White cracked .exe file with out any tags! So should protection ID detect it's.....

ohh yeah the upx detection for versions older than v1.0 is now fixed.
yes it´s right i am looking for 'UPX!' in the header but also for some signature bytes and a special UPX byte pattern.
(i need to update my code to support the very early UPX version)

i can´t just check for UPX1,UPX2 coz it could be TeLock (nasty!).
but v4.0 detects TeLock now really proper :)

i´m downloading the cracked B&W.exe to check it out.

I have notice one problem. Protection ID 4.0 BETA.

Protection ID find UPX protection..... it's not..becuase you can't extract it with UPX...so I think it's "aspack" protection...acourding to "aspack" tag...so...maybe there are som problem here...:D

test the newest beta i´ve sent u ;)
it´s a huge list of improvements...

the code snipped from the header was patched by u manually,
coz no known packer adds this sections together.

but PiD will greatly improve scanning, coz it checks for specific byte patterns for each version of a packer / encrypter and not only the section names...

4.0 BETA 3 first bug.

Please see the image and add the text your search for CD-checks! ;)

it will not be detected coz it´s a DLG Reference...
(p.l.e.a.s.e...in.s.e.r.t....) i don´t scan for dlg refs, coz this really
slows down the whole scanning speed and is used only in a very few games...

you know that the tron2.exe has additional cd-checks ;)

Well in the UK version of TRON 2.0 there isn't any tron2.exe there is a tron.exe and a Lithtech.exe.

Lithtech.exe is protected with SecuROM.

tron.exe has CD-Checks in it.
(I've manage to get the root of the CD-Checks and dissable it)

But the image I showed you, is what the user se. But there are some other text string to in the .exe file. But if you do this, if you search for "disc" or "tron2.exe" than you know it's protected with CD-checks..becuase how many programs/games has text string call "tron2.exe" ?

but it's strange that there isn't any file call tron2.exe in the folder.....:confused:

many exefiles can have the string 'disc' inside so i won´t scan for it. like i said, i only check error strings and no dlg references.
dlg references like in tron 2.0 are used only in a very few games.

about the v4.0 release... it should be around next week.