Protection ID info thread - v6.4.0 (build 08.07.2010)

[unRheal]

Hello,

Sorry - I just sent a message/feedback thing saying this before I realized there's a thread for PID!

Anyway - I have v0.6.2.3 March 2009 and I just bought the game Alone In The Dark for PC, so I thought I'd run PID on it and see what it said.

I basically had enabled context menus and selected the "Scan with ProtectionID" option from the menu I got when right-clicking on the drive with the 1st DVD of Alone In The Dark in it.

A bunch of stuff scrolled by in the log window (Nice that you can re-size the window's *width* but it'd be even better if we could make the *height* bigger as well! - just a thought) but eventually it crashed with the standard "do you want to submit this to Microsoft" dialog, etc.

I saved the log info that had been displayed up to the point when it crashed (it still let me select & copy from the window despite having crashed) as well as the two files that it'd made for the crash info to send to MS - I selected not send it, but just made a copy of the files first - one being the .dmp file.

So I'm not sure if you care for any of the files/info/log stuff, or if you have any other thoughts or suggestions as to what else I might try to get it to work or whatever... I thought at least i'd let you know and go from there.

No worries. Thanks!

[TippeX]

Originally Posted by unRheal

.....but eventually it crashed with the standard "do you want to submit this to Microsoft" dialog, etc.

that should not have happened, protection id has its own built in seh, which will intercept such a dialog appearing.. very strange, but if you have the logs etc, it can't hurt to take a look, can you email them? (protectionid**********com)
rar'ed up preferably

new build coming soon too.. finishing some stuff in it currently..

[cdkiller]

a little status update:

our next version is called 6.3.0 due major improvements
it features highly optimized scanning routines resulting in an more accurate & faster detection than before.

we´ve tested several exe-fakers wich add signatures for other common exe protectors. the goal of this tools is to 'hide' the real protection. all of the other available scanners are fooled, we aren´t, not even in a single test, and we did a hell lot of them

also we did optimize the scans for the ' more common' protections / added more detailed info, like SecuROM, SolidShield / Tages, Protect DiSC & ActiveMark, added more info for the newly used Byte-Shield protection, more upx packed file infos etc...

there will also be 2 more 'tools' in pid. one will be usefull for crackers, the other one is a quite usefull for every windows user.

and as usual the bugfixes & core improvements

when it will be out? well... tomorrow, i´m going to visit the 'with full force' festival (http://withfullforce.de/deutsch/index.html)
i´ll be back at monday, so i think a release in that week is very possible.

[chron]

Scanning TWW.exe from the whispered world results in crashing of v6.2.3.