dilema and decision 001

dgs010243

Hi,
I am a newbie 🙂 in this forum, but not on this planet.
Is there a serious solution of free or fee php script (resonable price), allowing the detection of shareware licences used beyond the trial period 🙂 ?
I use official licences only, even I am from Romania... see here:

http://dansomnea.tripod.com/whoami.html.

But I use Linux SUSE regularly.

I try to fight against software piracy !

In Romanian: fraierule! pe ce lume te afli, en France: mon vieux, tu es ... revêur !! tu esti visator dragul meu ! my reply: asa o fi ! maybe you have right, maybe you are wrong. I suppose Magic Legal/Carnivore, et al. use C++/ASM level solution!
Multumesc, merci, thank a lot

dougal85

The only one i know of is Zend Guard. It can be a bit pricy, but how much is protection worth to you?

I am been looking for something cheaper for myself too without any luck

dgs010243

dougal85 wrote:
The only one i know of is Zend Guard. It can be a bit pricy, but how much is protection worth to you?

I am been looking for something cheaper for myself too without any luck

Dear Mr. Douglas,

Thanks for rapid answer!
Meanwhile I have another idea:

Suppose a webinar has a program for finding out e-mail adresses in an illegal mode.
he/she start to send the boiler plate to each recipient, including me and you.
How can I discourage such fraudent? The solution of message filtering is not good. Let's say "Irish lottery"; but this one uses phantom mail boxes. Another context: let's suppose an artist who try to sell own opera. Usually, such a person invite us at his/her website.

Goooood!

Suppose "you/I" invite him/her to visit our own special prepared web site contining a hidden program. I think that it might be a script code (php, C#, Java Standalone Application, it doesn't matter which one) in our home page.
Its unique scope is this one:
instead finding out a licence number, let's try to find out the version of that product used. If that product is let's say a Macromedia Dreamweaver older version, a 2003 FrontPage editor, or a CoffeeCup HTML ..., we must warn him/he, that he/she may use an illegal licence no. on the remote computer ... Of course this is a false message. A cracker laugh on me! But such warning (w/o precising the licence number, if the recipient is askin us) for an innocent artist is ... The effect is to escape on these unsolicited message.
In my own case a female sent her message to all Cc (not Bcc) recipients having d first letter from yahoo, Hotmail etc.!

I started the construction of site that contains a lot of links to php, asp, jsp,... and a page for software piracy. That is the most attractive, I suppose. If you are interested to visit it, please ask me the hyperlink in the next message .

Of course, I have no such a hidden script code !

Sincerely,
prof. dr. ing. Dan Gheorghe Somnea
PS It would be a challange to find out such a licence number in a real mode, like a spyware from MS Media Player records all MS suites detected on a PC visitng a download site from MS!

dougal85

dgs010243 wrote:
Dear Mr. Douglas,

My name is Dougal (and its my first name! haha)

Anyway, that sounds like an interesting idea. From what i understand you want to try and detect applications on peoples computers that have invalid serials or cracked programs when they visit a website?

However, the act of this would surely infringe somebody's privacy? Also, I imagine that trying to find a serial is illegal too. IF this was possible... somebody could use it to find out valid and invalid serials and abuse this idea.

However, I don't believe this is possible! After all, how would you scan somebody's computer? The 'hidden' program on a website sounds too much like spy ware to me.

It is an interesting idea that you are working on, but I cant see how it would work via the method of a website.

Dougal

dgs010243

dougal85 wrote:
My name is Dougal (and its my first name! haha)

Anyway, that sounds like an interesting idea. From what i understand you want to try and detect applications on peoples computers that have invalid serials or cracked programs when they visit a website?

However, the act of this would surely infringe somebody's privacy? Also, I imagine that trying to find a serial is illegal too. IF this was possible... somebody could use it to find out valid and invalid serials and abuse this idea.

However, I don't believe this is possible! After all, how would you scan somebody's computer? The 'hidden' program on a website sounds too much like spy ware to me.

It is an interesting idea that you are working on, but I cant see how it would work via the method of a website.

Dougal

Dear Mr Dougal,

Sorry for the misusing name! Excuse moi pour la bévue (gaffe familiale). It was quite unintentionally. Sorry.

I was a C/C++ programmer until 1993. I am a beginner in PHP/Java/Javascript/VBScript. http://dansomnea.tripod.com/whoami.html

So this idea could be continued by you in a 'free of charge' perfectible mode, if you are programmer.

I have no intention to develop such a "telescope" program.

Meanwhile, I'll try to announce Yahoo/MSN/google centers for such abuses, or to introduce filters.
I have no money to buy a more powerful PC with Microsoft Longhorn/Vista.
I prefer Linux SuSE.

Best regards,
prof dr ing Dan Gheorghe Somnea
PS if you find something new hyperlinks maybe you do not forget me.