Protection PLUS

Features

The sale of a software product is often similar to the sale of a CD or DVD. Once it is out of the supplier's hand, control is lost forever. Protection PLUS gives you control over your software, even after it has been downloaded by a purchaser.

Create trials, remotely activate your product, and use licensing tools to manage how your software is accessed. Plus, you get the guaranteed assurance knowing the SoftwareKey System will grow as your needs change, and its reliability has been field proven for almost two decades.

Take a look at the power under the hood…

Instant PLUS: Enjoy the absolute ease and speed of implementing the most common forms of licensing business logic with little or no source code changes. Inside all editions of Protection PLUS.

Software Development Kit (SDK): Revel in the extensive libraries and sample code for custom licensing business logic. When you do not want a cookie-cutter solution, the Protection PLUS Software Development Kit (SDK) empowers you with a full-featured library of software tools. The SDK includes 32-bit and 64-bit DLL and static library, 32-bit ActiveX control, and 32-bit .NET Component for Windows platforms.

Manage how users access your software

• Primary Licensing Applications
  • Create trials, rentals, pay-per-use applications
  • Immediate software activation via phone, fax, email, or the Internet
  • Extend a trial, rental, or lease for an additional period of time
  • Turn on one or more menu options or applications in a suite
  • Allow partial access; unlock additional features later
  • Convert from "lite" version to professional version
  • Increase or decrease a usage counter
  • Detect clock backdating or trial reinstallation to gain additional usage
  • Set triggers on most any user-defined action
• Network Licensing
  • Convert application from single-user mode to multi-user mode
  • Protect using either fixed or floating network licensing
  • Modify the number of allowed network workstations
• Electronic License Management (when combined with SOLO Server)
  • Automated software activation through the Internet
  • Determine Internet connection state
  • Query for new version availability
  • Automatically download / install product updates 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

Protect your software and help honest people stay honest

• Enforce License Compliance
  • Copy Protection
  • Lock the application to run on the current computer or network server only
  • Limit the number of allowed network users or computers
  • Terminate rental or lease 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 (when combined with SOLO Server)
• 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

Want to know even more about the features packed in Protection PLUS?

Download a printable Protection PLUS Features Document PDF

Protection PLUS has been a real lifesaver for us. We used to use a dongle but it was an expensive and obtrusive method of copy protection. We've found that our users completely accept having to enter an unlock code because it only takes a few seconds and it's no hassle at all. Again, thanks for a great product.

Rick Thompson

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