You reviews are very interesting, but it would be nice to mention about available OS platforms for each of the tools.

I did not advertise them. Just some overview for people to know.

>I searched for SWF Reader and found that it isn’t freeware at all.
Ooops… You are right. Sorry.

>and more than SWF Encrypt and SWC Encrypt combined
SWC is just a zipped format of SWF. You may change extensions from .swc to .zip uncompress it and find the SWF file within. Then probably the SWF file could be simply obfuscated.

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I’m not prejudice against SWF Encrypt at all – it’s just a poor product and is the most expensive of them all. How can I be positive about that?

While you might say that $40 is preferable to $400, a) you get what you pay for; and b) it’s only the Professional Edition that costs $400 – the Personal Lite Edition costs $99 and still has more features than SWF Protector 2 and more than SWF Encrypt and SWC Encrypt combined. While we can all say we’d rather pay $100 for a Ferrari than $100,000, the real world is that the best products cost more money.

I can’t support what you said about downloading from torrents. This practice takes money out of developers’ pockets and robs them of their good, honest work. Do you give your work away for free? I’d guess not – so why should others?

> All that needs to be done is download SWF Decrypt or SWF Reader… The first one can deprotect SWF Protector and SWF Encrypt.

Only until DComSoft release version 3 of their tool, and even before then, only AS3 projects.

> The second one can decrypt secureSWF (probably most of the readers think that secureSWF is unconquerable, but this is not true), SWF Encrypt, Mochiencryption and doSWF.

I’d be very sceptical about this because some of the obfuscation options in SecureSWF are irreversible. You *might* be able to open the SWF and look at the code, but the code will be so heavily obfuscated that none of it will make any sense and stealing it or making changes to it will cease to be a feasible option.

> SWF Reader is really cool… and there are lots of options. It’s developers initially based in Poland. The programm is freeware of course.

I searched for SWF Reader and found that it isn’t freeware at all. You can download a demo from their site, but the application itself costs €10.

> SWF Decrypt more looks like someone’s part-project against SWF Protector and SWF Encrypt.

I’d agree with you on that point – it seems that Magus is on a personal crusade, like he’s a disgruntled former employee or something. The guy should probably chill out a bit.

> Personally I`m against such tools, but they have a right to exist.

So you’re against them but you spent half of your post writing about them and advertising them? Interesting.

Great, thanks… Interesting reviews. While I think that you are prejudiced treated SWF Encrypt in your review. :)
Somewhere I saw a comparative article about this topic… but can not find it. I’ll let you know as soon as I remember.

By the way, many people from the Flash Community prefer secureSWF, but at the same time many are of the opinion that it breaks flash games.

Yep, $400 is a very “dear” price I think. 40$ is much more preferable). But I agree with one developer, who said on some forum threat that if the price is affordable, you may buy, but if it is expensive then just go and download it from torrents for FREE.)))))

I think the public should know that regardless of the SWF protector that we use, there is always a way to crack the SWF file.
And nobody needs to make a lot of effort to achieve this.

All that needs to be done is download SWF Decrypt or SWF Reader… The first one can deprotect SWF Protector and SWF Encrypt. The second one can decrypt secureSWF (probably most of the readers think that secureSWF is unconquerable, but this is not true), SWF Encrypt, Mochiencryption and doSWF.

SWF Reader is really cool… and there are lots of options. It’s developers initially based in Poland. The programm is freeware of course.
SWF Decrypt more looks like someone’s part-project against SWF Protector and SWF Encrypt. It is free too.

Personally I`m against such tools, but they have a right to exist.