Limit Number Of vb setup Installation on client machine

[George1111]

Most of my clients are not super hackers so a simple program key works great for me.

The other point is that if you have sold your program to someone in Timbuktu, and received good money for it, what do you do when they call up and tell you the computer had to be reformatted because of viruses, or the HD was upgraded, or the memory was upgraded, etc, etc

I suppose you could always tell them you dont believe them, and tell them to send you another cheque .... would you ????????? Not likely unless you are some idiot.

However, if I did have to seriously protect myself from someone unlawfully using my software, I would do the following

1) Inform the client that because of high security concerns, the program will not function unless they are connected to the internet (at least at starting up the program)

2) When the program starts, it either makes a connection to your own web site / server and passes information about the a) User b) Computer running your program (of course it can send you the serial number of the program being run also)

You then have an option to let them run the program (by sending back a confirm code which you program understands) or you can stop the operation - even uninstall / delete the program (or critical parts of it)

The offender would then be flagged so if they attempt to restart the same serial number program, it just would not work

This way you would not only protect unlawful use of you program but you would also know exactly who uses you program and when