What does Instant Protection PLUS 3 support?

Instant Protection PLUS 3 is a licensing toolkit that is designed to make adding licensing and copy-protection to your Windows desktop applications quicker and easier.

Two methods for adding licensing to your application(s):

1. The Instant Protection PLUS 3 wrapper injects a runtime into an existing application, but currently only supports 32-bit Win32 PE files (LabVIEW, Visual C++, Visual Basic 6, most applications and DLLs not written in .NET). You can read more about the wrapper compatibility in this manual topic.
2. The Instant Protection PLUS 3 DLL may be called with any programming environment which can call standard Windows DLLs, including .NET applications. You can read more about the Instant Protection PLUS 3 DLL and view sample tutorials for different languages.

General features (available when wrapping or using the Instant Protection PLUS 3 DLL):

• Primary Licensing Applications
  • Create trials, rentals, pay-per-use applications
  • Immediate software activation over the Internet (with SOLO Server) or via phone or email
  • Extend a trial or license subscription for an additional period of time
  • Support feature based licensing for trials and activated licenses
  • Increase or decrease a usage counter
  • Detect clock backdating or trial reinstallation and prevent gaining additional usage
  • Set triggers on most any user-defined action
• Enforce License Compliance
  • Copy Protection
  • Lock the application to run on the current computer or for the current user
  • Terminate subscription applications that are not paid
  • Disable an illegal copy or turn it back into a trial
  • Force returned software or fraudulent purchases to stop working (with SOLO Server)
• Electronic License Management (with SOLO Server)
  • Automated software activation through the Internet
  • Determine Internet connection state
  • Query for new version availability
  • Automatically prompt update notifications and offer download through FTP or HTTP
  • Change license features or revoke licenses automatically the next time user is online
  • Send OR receive full registered user information
  • Track usage of application—counters, features, pay-per-use
  • Track trial evaluator information for marketing purposes
  • Update or disable licenses remotely

Features only available when wrapping (for Win32 applications):

• Protect Win32 PE files (Visual C++, Visual Basic 6, most applications and DLLs not written in .NET)
  • Compress & encrypt
  • Protect from being modified by any means in order to change their functionality
  • Check for integrity at startup
  • Protect process space, which holds a protected executable, from being dumped by process dumping tools or modified
  • Protect an executable from being disassembled and analyzed by debuggers
  • Protect an executable from being patched on disc
  • Protect code, data, and resources stored in an executable from being analyzed and modified by hex editors
  • Protection from many debuggers and decompilers