PreEmptive Solutions Announces Dotfuscator Professional Edition Version 1.2.Business/Technology Editors VSLive! San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden 2003 Booth 217 CLEVELAND & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2003 Leading Provider of Obfuscation ob·fus·cate tr.v. ob·fus·cat·ed, ob·fus·cat·ing, ob·fus·cates 1. To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand: "A great effort was made . . . Tools Adds New Features Focusing on Ease of Use; Additional Support for Managed C++ Code and the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework PreEmptive Solutions PreEmptive Solutions is a company that is focused on protecting and increasing the value of applications. It was founded in 1996 and today has over 3,000 corporate clients in over 100 countries. PreEmptive Solutions produces DashO, Dotfuscator and SO-signal. , Inc., a leading provider of advanced obfuscation tools for Java and Microsoft .NET See .NET. applications, giving unprecedented protection, optimization and size reduction, today announced the release of Dotfuscator(TM) Professional Edition version 1.2. The newest version extends its current abilities and allows customers to produce the most secure and efficient applications built for the Microsoft .NET Framework. Dotfuscator Professional Edition is designed to provide even greater protection and to create the most compact and efficient .NET Framework-based applications, including strong code protection and size reduction with advanced features such as Control Flow Obfuscation, Pruning pruning, the horticultural practice of cutting away an unwanted, unnecessary, or undesirable plant part, used most often on trees, shrubs, hedges, and woody vines. , String Encryption, Enhanced Overload Induction and Incremental Obfuscation. "As soon as a software program gets released, hackers and competitors are swarming swarming 1. a phenomenon observed in cultures of Proteus spp. on solid media in which there is progressive surface spreading from the parent colony. 2. the periodic bee migration of the old queen and accompanying workers and drones from a full original hive which is over it with the latest code analysis tools," said Pete Lindstrom, research director for Spire Security, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . "Obfuscation can put a quick end to their ability to succeed, thus strengthening security and protecting the intellectual property." New benefits and features in version 1.2 include: -- Ease of use: The command line interface has been extended in order to allow obfuscation from the command line without having to create a configuration file. -- Support for managed C++ code. -- Full support for obfuscating and pruning applications built for the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework. -- New renaming schemes: Choose from several predefined renaming schemes (including unprintable) that can create even more problems for decompilers. -- Additional protection against reverse engineering: Dotfuscator Professional Edition is able to insert invalid metadata to your application that will break current versions of ildasm (the disassembler that ships with the Microsoft .NET Framework SDK). The runtime does not use this metadata, but when the disassembler tries to read the invalid metadata, it will crash. -- Localization: Easier to obfuscate localized applications. -- Dotfuscator Professional Edition automatically discovers satellite resource DLLs using the same rules that the runtime uses and automatically adds them as inputs to the obfuscation process. "As a market leader of obfuscation and efficiency improving tools for Java and Microsoft .NET-based applications, we are committed to ongoing product innovation and development, as well as superior customer satisfaction," says Gabriel Torok, president of PreEmptive Solutions. "The latest version of Dotfuscator Professional adds many important features requested by our customers." "This tool contains technology that helps developers protect their intellectual property from decompilation or reverse engineering attempts on .NET Framework-based applications," said David Lazar, director for the Developer and Platform Evangelism Division at Microsoft Corp. "Protecting applications is extremely important to developers, and Dotfuscator Professional Edition is a valuable solution to customers." In addition, PreEmptive's Dotfuscator Community Edition, a lite version See light version. of Dotfuscator, is integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio Microsoft Visual Studio is Microsoft's flagship software development product for computer programmers. It centers on an integrated development environment which lets programmers create standalone applications, web sites, web applications, and web services that run on any platforms .NET 2003. By providing obfuscation tools in the box, PreEmptive pre·emp·tive or pre-emp·tive adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of preemption. 2. Having or granted by the right of preemption. 3. a. and Microsoft provide developers with an extra layer of protection against reverse engineering, or decompilation. Pricing and availability: PreEmptive's Dotfuscator Professional Edition is available immediately directly from PreEmptive at http://www.preemptive.com. Pricing starts at $1495 per user with quantity discounts available. About PreEmptive Solutions Founded in 1995, PreEmptive Solutions is a leading provider of advanced obfuscation tools for Java and Micorsoft.NET applications giving unprecedented protection, optimization and size reduction. PreEmptive's Dotfuscator(TM) and DashO(TM) Family of Products help secure and improve the efficiency of .NET and Java code. For further information, visit www.preemptive.com or call 216-732-5895. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. 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