PreEmptive Solutions Announces Dotfuscator Professional Edition 2.0

Leading Provider of Obfuscation Tools adds New Features focusing on Integration with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 project builds, Ease of Use, and Additional Debugging Support to help make code security part of the Enterprise Development Lifecycle

Cleveland, Ohio and Los Angeles, CA –- October 27, 2003-- PreEmptive Solutions, Inc., the leading provider of advanced obfuscation tools for Microsoft .NET Framework-based applications, giving unprecedented protection, optimization and size reduction, today announced the release of Dotfuscator Professional Edition version 2.0. 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 the greatest 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, String Encryption, Enhanced Overload Induction and Incremental Obfuscation.

"As a market leader of obfuscation and efficiency improving tools for applications built with Visual Studio .NET 2003 and the Microsoft .NET Framework, 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."

“Building a secure and efficient application is becoming increasingly important to developers,” said Prashant Sridharan, senior product manager of the Developer and Platform Evangelism Division at Microsoft Corp. “By incorporating code security into the development life cycle, PreEmptive’s Dotfuscator will be of great value to our mutual customers.”

Volvo IT supplies global industrial companies with IT systems and solutions. One application is VCADS Pro, a tool to program and diagnose vehicles from the Volvo family on the aftermarket. It is developed as a rich Microsoft Windows client in Microsoft Visual Basic .NET. VCADS Pro has critical business logic and connects the vehicle with Volvo legacy systems. Volvo IT uses Dotfuscator for securing their code.

'We needed to protect our intellectual property and make sure no one has access to our code within these diagnostics," says Mats Hagberg, Method Area Manager for Microsoft .NET Framework development within Volvo IT. "We chose PreEmptive Solutions for several reasons: the level of security PreEmptive's solutions provide, the low-maintenance and the ease of integration with our current software development lifecycle. PreEmptive Solutions was the best solution for us."

"It is becoming evident to many organizations that securing infrastructure that applications use is not enough to provide the level of trust and mitigation of risk businesses seek, particularly for the valued intellectual property their computer applications assets represent to them," states Earl Perkins, Vice President, META Group. "Innovative companies involved in application development are seeking and investing in ways to ensure 'code security' to protect such assets."

New features and benefits in version 2.0 include:

·         Deep Integration with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Project Builds.

·         Debugging support, including stack trace decoding.

·         Enhanced pruning and renaming reports.

·         Ability to include/exclude by custom attribute matching.

Other Features of Dotfuscator Professional 2.0 include:

• Support for managed C++ code.
• Full support for obfuscating and pruning applications built for the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework.
• 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.
• 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.

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. A free trial version is also available. Other Preemptive Solution products for the Microsoft .NET Framework include Dotfuscator Community Edition, bundled and distributed for free with Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003 and Dotfuscator Standard Edition priced at $395 per user.

About Preemptive Solutions:

Founded in 1995, PreEmptive Solutions is the leading provider of advanced Java and .Net code security tools giving unprecedented protection, optimization and size reduction. PreEmptive's Dotfuscator™ and DashO™ Family of Products help secure and improve the efficiency of .NET Framework and Java code. For further information, visit www.preemptive.com or call 216-732-5895.

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