Looking for a crack 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.
WARNING: Sites claiming to provide cracks or serial numbers for
ArtistScope software are trying to trick you into downloading
spyware, because it's not possible:
- ArtistScope CD was custom compiled and never used license keys. It
is now free!
- ArtistScope DRM Client is free software and cannot use license
keys!
- CopySafe PDF Protector licenses are bound to the owner's computer!
- CopySafe PDF Reader is free software... no such serial numbers
exist!
- CopySafe Web is custom compiled to order... no such serial numbers
exist!
- Secure Image is custom compiled to order... no such serial numbers
exist!
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 key generator
ArtistScope changed it's licensing model completely.
We did away with license keys. Most of our
programs are custom compiled to order with encrypted license details
embedded in the executable and those that do use a license 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...
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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. |
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