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yck1509 / ConfuserEx

An open-source, free protector for .NET applications
http://yck1509.github.io/ConfuserEx/
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What a pity... #534

Closed roro2 closed 8 years ago

roro2 commented 8 years ago

Why did you show this : "Confused By ConfuserEx v1.0.0" ? Why facilitate the work of people who want to crack our programs ? You did a very good tool and mentioned this! I can't understand...

I downloaded the source of confuserEX 1.0.0 because I wanted to remove this. But when I compile the project with Visual Studio, I have had so much compile errors, so I prefered to abandon. Did you really test what you put in your .zip ? Why do we have so much compile errors ?

Conclusion : I have to find a new obfuscator Tool which will not indicate the name of the tool used! 2 days lost Learning and integrating ConfuserEX in my project.

What a pity....

SlowLogicBoy commented 8 years ago

Why did you show this : "Confused By ConfuserEx v1.0.0" ? Why facilitate the work of people who want to crack our programs ? You did a very good tool and mentioned this! I can't understand...

You can show or hide this attribute, if I want to crack/reverse engineer your program I will find out that it's Obfuscated by ConfuserEx (or another obfuscator) because every obfuscator has his own footprints, even if I don't know which one is it, I can still reverse engineer it.

Anyway this project is opensource and free to use, so at least what you could do is to credit this project.

I downloaded the source of confuserEX 1.0.0 because I wanted to remove this. But when I compile the project with Visual Studio, I have had so much compile errors, so I prefered to abandon. Did you really test what you put in your .zip ? Why do we have so much compile errors ?

Zip is generated by Github not by project developers, you need to git clone recursively to get everything you need to build project.

On how to remove this attribute, there was at least one issue here, you should be able to find it.

alexmurari commented 8 years ago

@roro2 It's called Watermarking and many issues here deal with this subject. Take a look at this post.

ConfuserEx depends on the dnlib, when you download the zip package, dnlib doesn't come with the ConfuserEx source, so you have to manually download it. If you don't, you can really expect many compiler errors.

sgkoishi commented 8 years ago

So you download the source from Release page but not by git client?

XenocodeRCE commented 8 years ago
  1. You are bashing ConfuserEX Watermarking, without knowing that it is not needed for people to know if your file was protected by ConfuserEX or not. If you pratice static analysis you will be able to see that ConfuserEX Control Flow Obfuscation and Constant Protection is unique in its way and therefore ARE a kind of watermark since they tell the reverse engineer which protection was applied.
  2. Your innapropriate skill to compile the project shall not be a part of this issue, please separate them so people will be able to help you figuring out how to compile it.
  3. If you are looing for a seure and closed-source software to use please refer to this Yck post here or modify ConfuserEX source code
roro2 commented 8 years ago

Hello everybody,

Finally, with all your advices, I succedeed to modify ConfuserEX source code and removed all source code concerning 'watermarking'. As MurariAlex said, it missed me 'dnlib' , so I downloaded it and could compile ConfuserEX without problem..a big thank to him.

Now I can use ConfuserEx with my soft and I am very happy of this because I find it's a good product.

I am aware that people who really want to know how my program was obfuscated, can investigate and finally find what they want. But I didn't want to facilitate their 'work' and maybe now some of them will be discouraged.

Thank you all for your help... Ron