That’s pathetic. I wouldn’t pay a cent for this when there’s a number of free utilities and websites that serve the same purpose.

guest32b: We’ve had enough ‘heroes’ like yourself around here that say “it’s free don’t complain!”. We have full right to, thank you very much. Also, the reason that we can give thumbs-downs and thumbs-ups is the fact that not everyone is going to get here on the give away day, and if someone considers paying for it, they can read what others think of it.

From me, this software gets a 0/10.

I did actually have a program in mind that I can’t find anything online even partly similar to, just a couple weeks ago, & tried to find the page here where someone had said “let me know if you have a program to suggest”. Will try to remember what my suggestion/request was, & will contact you when I recall it. lol:) Am on cold meds today, so my brain is half asleep. lol:)

In your comment #64 I quote:
“…the software that I use to protect it does, more specifically, it uses it prevents ‘hackers’ from (easily) reverse engineering the software. As an aside, a number of programmers/software developers use that software, and that company is still in business doing extremely well.”

I understand from that that the functionallity was coded by yourself and that you did use some thirdparty software to protect your software from reverse enginering.
I do think you did a fine job of programming, all works flawless, nothing wrong with that at al.
The functionallity is a bit too common though to expect a great market for it is my guess, because of all the alternatives and the price (see my first comment #14).

The code injection must be part of the thirdparty software and believe me this will do you no good.
I hope I will be helpfull to give some recommendations here:

1] get rid of the nagg-screen in the software you provide. You can try to force people to stay honnest, but you should not force people to do things they dont have to and don’t want to.

2] Use something different to protect your software. Something free of code injections.Perhapse UPX could do the trick for you: http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Your executables will be compressed, easier (smaller) to download but very hard to reverse engineer.

3] You might even turn this conversiontool into freeware (I don’t think your loss will be too substancial) in order to make people aware of your site and do some more business.

What could be wrong with the protection software you use:
There are people making software just to lure people into a scheme of mal intentent. (here the example gets to be fiction) They might make freeware available that drop components vulnarable for code injection. When people use it it starts spreading around the world., aswell as the vulnarabilities do.
It abuses in that way people that only have good intentions.

Note: This has nothing to do with the GAotD-wrapper; nothing wrong with that.

I do think (again a matter of trust) you do have good intentions (as does GAotD; I never doubted that). Your showing here does that for me and the fact that you got the possibility to be a GAotD. So you might be unaware of all the components in the software on your site and it’s dark potentials.

Thanks for your suggestion to use a second computer. I do use one of the former giveaways though “Returnill”. I’m a really big fan of it. Don’t worry, this keeps me on top of it.

Got some data you want to hide n plain sight? Obfuscate it!!!!

Surv_Tech

Hi G,

Although I noticed you posted ‘anonymously’, and didn’t post your e-mail address, nor your postal address, responding to your question, do you have a domain name at all with your own website?
And as an aside, an ‘anonymous’ registration is going through something like domainsbyproxy through godaddy. My mailing address is listed.

Usually when you have a domain, as a matter of fact you actually do receive a lot of ‘physical’ junk mail, as well as people harvesting e-mail addresses from DNS records to ‘spam’ you. I’m not sure where you live, but in Canada, as a matter of fact you do receive physical junk mail, the most common type is ‘domain registrar’ spam, and I have received my annoying fair share of it. Basically these companies send you out junk mail pretending that if you don’t “renew” your domain name immediately, then you might ‘lose’ it. As for domain (e-mail) spam, unless you have a domain, you probably wouldn’t know. There are a number of companies that simply harvest e-mail addresses from domain records, and then send you a spam e-mail something along the lines of “Dear [domain name owner], I personally visited your website… so buy this”. So if you use an e-mail address like ‘whoisspam’, then it is very easy to identify individuals who simply attempt to spam as opposed to those who genuinely wish to get in contact with you.

Anyways, if you do register yourself a domain in the future, I wish you best of luck.

Thanks.

Hi Funkster, well a suggestion would be, if you are able, to get yourself a second computer. That way you can safely ‘test’ any applications you download off the internet, and if it appears to be perfectly safe to you, use it on your main computer. If you have any old laptops lying around, that is one really good way to extend their ‘shelf’ life.

Re: #67

Thanks for the feedback. Actually good point, hadn’t occurred to me to include the decimal to binary, I’ll include that for a new version.