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yener90

17-04-2009 11:59

Flock Demo protected

I wanted to know, why the demo exe of Flock is Securom protected???

Code:

Scanning -> Flock.exe

File Type : Exe, Size : 10131456 (09A9800h) Byte(s)

[Heuristics] -> Flag : 00000000000000000000000000000001

[!] SecuROM Detected - Version 07.39.0005

[!] Possible CD/DVD-Key or Serial Check -> cdkey

- Scan Took : 0.579 Second(s)

but thats a download game(STEAM or Direct2Drive).
and often securom games require DVD for playing.

Therefore i want to know too if there is a retail version of the game???

Joe Forster/STA

17-04-2009 12:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by yener90 (Post 370873)

I wanted to know, why the demo exe of Flock is Securom protected???

So that crackers cannot take any hints from its code to help with cracking the full version.

yener90

17-04-2009 12:29

aha thx for the info.
but if here the securom is skipped, the crackers could also skip it in the full version.
would be that not easiere for them???

TippeX

17-04-2009 13:51

no, years ago this was a nice 'trick', nowadays most developers make the demo exe a seperate build, with parts deliberately missing.. thats why you can't simply try and crack something with the demo exe... this used to work in the past (especially on really old games), nowadays things moved on, developers learned a bit....

also for securom, steam or direct2drive games can use securom pa, which can have the disk check removed, and the protection being activation based (eg: bioshock, gta iv etc..), so something being reported as securom does not always mean that the disk check is present...

yener90

18-04-2009 01:35

thx tippex for the info.

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