Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 16:47:37 +0100 From: Luuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.comp.programming,comp.programming Subject: Re: How to obfuscate VBA code? References: <52d695e2$0$2139$65785112@news.neostrada.pl> <52d781de$0$2222$65785112@news.neostrada.pl> <52dabd2c$0$2146$65785112@news.neostrada.pl> <52dbe987$0$2160$65785112@news.neostrada.pl> In-Reply-To: <52dbe987$0$2160$65785112@news.neostrada.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 51 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:980:9089:1:d0c:e7fc:4af1:3871 X-Trace: 1390146601 news.xs4all.nl 2965 [2001:980:9089:1:d0c:e7fc:4af1:3871]:50274 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:4073 On 19-01-2014 16:04, BOB wrote: >>>>>>> I am looking for a tool to obfuscate >>>>>>> VBA (Word) code. >>>>>>> Applications should run but their >>>>>>> code should be difficult to read. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Any suggestions would be very >>>>>>> much appreciated. >>>>> >>>>>> You should at least prvide a reason why would you need that, >>>>>> especially if what you wanted is dangerous for others. >>>>> >>>>> Dangerous for others? Are you OK? >>>>> When someone steals my code it can be "dangerous" only for me. >>> >>>> If your code has a line like this: >>>> shell("notepad.exe") >>>> it will not hurt, >>>> >>>> But what if you have a line like this: >>>> shell("format c:") >>>> >>>> or (don't try this at home): >>>> shell("cd \ & del *.* /F /S /Q") >>> >>> I thought that for people in this group it'd be obvious >>> that applications should run exactly like without >>> the changes. >>> When I give my application to anyone I am not >>> anonymous. :-) >> >> Giving an application to someone can be anonymous, even if the >> application >> contains user names and passwords. You just need to know how. > > That's not the point. I only wanted to say that because I am not > anonymous there is no risk that my application can be dangerous > for a user, at least not intentionally. > > What about any tool to obfuscate my code? > > Regards > BOB Googleing for: obfuscate vba code free with the optional addition of: libreoffice does find some links..... i did not test, but i dont need to obfuscate code in an excel marco... ;)