StarForce FrontLine 5.0
 

A new version arrives: http://www.star-force.com/protection.phtml?c=83&id=1072

i legally buy my games, i have no use nor need for such trash.
all 4.7 did for me was prevent me from playing at all where i then have to take it back and pay 15% restocking fee and absolutly no response for help from its makers, no email, confirmation...not even a F*** you, so i hope the company dies and gets what it deserves

Umm..ok..but...what's new? A shitload of blacklisting?

Absolutely nothing.

theres games out with it already? if so, which ones (curious, and it'll help the community if you can list them)

yeah...to avoid them;)

exactly, and so cdkiller can add the detection :)

i haven´t seen a higher version than 4.70.08.xx yet.
according to a forum quote LOKI is supposed to have SF 4.80 and should be out in a few weeks.

edit:
downloaded the demo of DiRT and scanned it

Scanning -> E:\DiRT Demo\DiRTDemo.exe
File Type : Exe, Size : 8900096 (087CE00h) Byte(s)
[!] Starforce v3.4 - v4.7 wrapped !
- Scan Took : 2.797 Seconds

Scanning -> E:\DiRT Demo\protect.dll
File Type : Dll, Size : 12087760 (0B871D0h) Byte(s)
-> File Appears to be Digitally Signed @ Offset 0B85B70h, size : 01660h / 05728 byte(s)
-> File has 11952496 (0B66170h) bytes of appended data starting at offset 021060h
[i] StarForce Protect.dll v4.70.009.003
[!] UPX v2.02 compressed !
- Scan Took : 2.140 Seconds

i guess v4.70.09.xx is the latest one used in games, no 4.8/5.0 yet...

hi i might give u the name of a game that employs starforce5. but it's a chinese rpg game. "仙剑奇侠传4" (4cd game with sf5) u can find the game in the net. no one there in china can bypass this thing. (although there are rumors that some1 successfully bypass it but the guy won't publish it, he said he want the original game to benefit for a longer period of time *duh*... whatever the reason is...) maybe some guy here can find a way to bypass it? u know how the starforce protected cd wrecks your cd-rom right? i 1 2 play this game but i hate starforce... so if someone can bypass its cd protection pls let everyone know...

thank you

The Pile of Malware strikes back

If it no longer has any drivers, I don't see whats wrong with it...

Actually I see it as something bad I has gave me validation disk problems, don't validate sometimes even the original, is very intrusive. Sometimes the sf driver craps off snd since all SF games you have depend of the same drive won´t start any of them Give compatibity problems with some games that use them and Windows Vista. Panzers 1 y 2 was a reason why this malware was removed off them (the game could be playable but the driver ruin it). I has happened with other games also

I am not against copy protection in games but they should Securom 7 ,Safedisk, I don't know normal things but not this kind of malware copy protection

well you argument is sort of dead considering v5 is meant to be dropping the drivers, so it will be less intrusive, sure it wont help for existing games, but hopefully it brings along less problems in the future, we just have to wait and see

yo anyone see my previous post yet? (just want to make sure =D)

btw i heard someone is able to bypass the SF5.0 using daemon tool pro, which does not appear on SF5.0 blacklist. can anyone verify this? i tried to install daemon tool pro but my adware detector keep prompting me that there is an adware in the program (WhenUsave) and prevent me from using the program. that's the only thing that keeps me from verifying the theory.

anyone got the link to "adware free" daemon tool pro? pls post it. tq

link to "adware free" daemon tools pro is WAREZ... check the rules again please
and the daemon tools pro registered does NOT have adware in it....

nice try...

Nice to see that they will ditch the drivers and probably go for some heavy vm obfuscation under ring-3 (?) Think I saw a post on some reversing board...
Maybe I'll actually will start buying sf-prot:ed games again...:D

hello i get the daemon tool pro and i get a virus in that .dll file. any way to solve that?

@nfs_52006: This is NOT the Daemon Tools support forum. (Also, read the PC Games form FAQ for comments on false positives by stupid virus scanners...)

Hm... Adding this to your previous post... Warez? Some "raped" DT Pro Version are known to have a virus-alike hacked no-adware-dll.

Damned kiddies. Just buy a licence for software u use. We do.

Like Norton

Don't take this bad Norton users but I think NAV is for noobs

Unfortunately, you cannot know how good or bad a virus scanner is before you actually (download the trial/buy the full version of it and) start using it... unless you even read third-party, unbiased (!) reviews about it beforehands.

Well the Norton one I had it but I stoppend using it like in 2005 version I hated always turned my computer in a resource hog

And with the Norton Internet Security suite I wasn't very happy either too much pain configuring the internet access to the programs even when were configured still was some problem to connect and those false hacking attempts NIS alerted every 5-10 minutes really anoyyed me

this game have already bypassed by some persons in china.the online active system had cracked and crack had released long before.but the crack of cd protection have not released due to the laws.in china releasing the crack is inlegal.the game manufacturer might indict u if it do harm to them.

btw,the ways of copy an originall cd from Star Force Copy Portected Ones have issued.it can bypass the StarForce Protection in the game.

anyone have a clue if this new protection compared with asprotect schemes coz all rights for the ASPack Software project are assigned to the StarForce Technologies company from 1st August 2007. only an idea ;)



Greetz Jada^AoC

Use Asprotect instead:D please!:) far more user friendly

thanks lvf1911

i bypass the sf5 with no problem. although this way of bypassing the sf5 is not perfect.

thanks anyway