BurnOut OpenSource Protection Analyser
 

Hi everyone!
Since nearly 2 years I am developing a copy protection analyser called BurnOut which is OpenSource. Some of the information how to recognize a protection i got from cdmediaworld and i want to express my gratitude to the well collected information on this site. I would be pleased to see my programm in the CDMediaWorld utilities section, too and i want to obtain some opinions on BurnOut
You can download it at: BurnOut at SourceForge

Yours
GF7

Do I assume it correctly that it needs the M$ .NET framework (what version?) installed? I saw no reference to that in the documentation but it wouldn't work at all, crashes with an idiotic "[BurnOut.exe - Application Error] The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application. [OK]" error message.

You need at least .Net Framework 1.1 installed. Same as Copy-Discovery 2000.

that sucks, having to install a +20mb 'framework' to run an application,
sorry, but i'll stick with protectionid..

and it only scans cd/dvd's ?

scanned a disk i know has securom... your tool reported 'dummy files' as the protection...

If it needs an extra system component then you should mention it at some obvious place. (I'm definitely not gonna install M$ .NET, though, until I can avoit it...!)

can you send me "the" executable of this disk so i can fix this for the next release?

yeah thats right! but most windows pcs have installed it, and you will need it for more and more programms.

right, but perhaps the next version will have a feature to scan files, too.

cant send u the exe, as its a dvd, with files that aren't executable, pid finds its securom no problems but cant report an accurate version, compared to pid your program has a hell of a long way to go, and using the .net platform i think is a bad idea... perhaps u might need to rethink things...

Against cdkiller's pid BurnOut is like a "noob" prog. ;) And it wasn't written to rival with it.
But can you give me some constructive criticism (before i'm falling into depression :D )

i did, the scan for cd/dvd needs updated to scan for folder/file too, you'll also most likely have to impliment sector scan stuff too, why not msg cdk and see about helping in the development for pid instead of making a 'rival' program... course, you'll have to be able to code in something not .net orientated

Obviously he has to be good at ASM since it's written in "pure Win32ASM", whatever that means (M,T,F -ASM ?)

But can you send me the file in which pid finds securom?

its a 4.8 gig file, so no...
it finds it via sector scan, same as ur tool should do...

Uhm, mind you, writing a software without an acceptable amount of life-like test material is bold...

especially as it has been 'in development for 2 years'

address has changed to http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/burnout