Re: Starforce: why is there no permanent crack?

A further entry:

Apparently, newer versions of Starforce also allow the programmer to wrap program functions in the protection code, so they no longer "belong" to the application. The driver instead keeps a table of where these constituent parts of the application are in memory, effectively shutting down reverse-engineering attempts.

Thus, if the Starforce checks are circumvented, and the driver is not loaded, the other inline functions that were otherwise stored by the driver do not decrypt properly (if at all), resulting in program crashing, wierd behavior, and the like. Without intimate knowledge of which functions are protected under the driver, it's a practical impossibility to get rid of Starforce.

TheSmokingGnu
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