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    Posted: 24 February 2003 at 6:55am

I have found a nice script over the net. It was a free script, and as I have needed to make some modification to it I was surprised to find out that the script looked like this:

#$#$^%&)*!~NMANYb#$#@@@%$#%$(*&^ a.s.o.

The code was still fully functional, and I could not found an de-crypting utility within it, and for sure I did not have installed something special on my computer.
So, how was that done? How it comes that the script is workin?
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don't feel like that encryption is very secure, theres a few easily findable decoders out there
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and not that i condone hacking up someone's code, but to demonstrate how useless the "VBScript.Encode" feature is, check out a link like this one, found simply by typing "VBScript.Encode" on google

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Funny article, MorningZ. Let's hope that the bad guys would not find it!

I realy cannot imagine what is the use of encrypting something that you are giving it away FOR FREE! Only to protect a small size copyright notice - something like we have in here: "Powered by Webwizforums"?And it was a fully functional apps, not just a part of larger & full of features thing, which would have been make some sense - as some one may not bother to decript the free files of an encrypted app.
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Originally posted by zaboss zaboss wrote:

Funny article, MorningZ. Let's hope that the bad guys would not find it!



bah, this stuff is all old old news..

there's only one safe(r) way to protect one's code, compile it into a DLL..

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