Looking for a crack, keygen or serial number?

ArtistScope is the original innovator and pioneer of copy protection for the Internet and, as the main developer of such security applications since 1998, has been targeted by both hackers and the creators of inferior clones of our  solutions.

Hackers may offer cracked versions and our competitors may offer repackaged versions that are infected with trojans or virus, incomplete or otherwise crippled. Either way there is one sure test that our software is intact and not manipulated by a third party and that is by checking that the installer and any executables (.exe files) within a compressed package (zip, rar, etc) have been codesigned by ArtistScope using an authoritive certificate provided by Thawte or Verisign.

If it's not code signed or the signing certificate is invalid, it's not from ArtistScope.

Software piracy is illegal and believe it or not hackers can be traced. The very first release of our image encryption software was hacked by a programmer in Czechoslovakia who was most apologetic when we contacted him, but the damage was already done and to prevent the release of another keygenerator ArtistScope changed it's licensing model completely.

We did away with licence keys. Most of our programs are custom compiled to order with encrypted licence details embedded in the executable and those that do use a licence key require online registration before the program will perform properly. Online registrations record the identity of the user and the computer used.

Hidden treasure?

If caught, hackers are faced with much more severe penalties than those that were imposed by the courts a few years ago, so why do hackers take the risk? They don't. Not counting the naive amateurs, hackers today are mostly criminally motivated to infect as many computers as possible to perform a variety of tasks:

use your computer as a robot for denial of service attacks on networks relay spam using your computer and email account as the identified sender retrieve your banking details such as usernames and passwords probe your network to infect other computers solicit advertising for sex and pharmaceutical web sites claim that your computer is infected by virus so that you pay for a removal tool then collect your credit card details and much more...

Many of the malware practices listed above will not noticeably impair the performance of your computer and unless you have an anti-virus software and that software detects the malware you will not know about it. In fact you may never know about it because until someone actually detects it and reports it to the anti-virus software makers they will not know about it and consequently their software won't know how to detect it.

Q: Who will contact an anti-virus company to report being infected by warez software?
A: Nobody!

Why take the risk?

Click here to register a clean version of our software.