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[Insignia]

I came on to this idea today, and as I was bored write it soon after.

Did you ever make an application important enough to block users from it if they abuse it?

Well, you can now! with SoftBan.

This is a very easy DLL to use and since I'm still developing it, it will be free for a while! wahooo;

Here's an example of how to use it;

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Imports SoftBan_Project
Public Class TestProject

    Private Sub TestProject_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Dim CheckUserBan As New SoftBan
        If CheckUserBan.BanCheck("http://test.com/banned_users.html") = "BANNED" Then
         MsgBox("Your Banned from this application!")
         Application.Exit
        ElseIf CheckUserBan.BanCheck("http://test.com/banned_users.html") = "NOT_BANNED" Then
         MsgBox("Your not Banned from this application!")
    End Sub
End Class

To get the USERS banned guid the first time(To e-mail to yourself to add it to the html file) use this;

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Dim userguid As String = My.Computer.Registry.GetValue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Cryptography", "MachineGuid", Nothing)

The library automatically gets the GUID, checks it against your HTML file and returns a value on which you can act.

It will return either BANNED or NOT_BANNED as you can see in the example, on that value you can act and display messageboxes, terminate the application, limit access, etc.

Enjoy

SoftBan_Sept15.zip

[Axel]

hmm registry keys ? easy trackable with spybot... so, when they ignore it the reg key will not be made lol
and some applications will delete useless keys...

[CodenStuff]

A very interesting idea Insignia I look forward to seeing you complete this ;).

You dont have to just use registry you could also use an encrypted file and app settings as backups. Your average computer user wont be looking in the registry or anything like that anyway really.

Keep it up cooll;

[hungryhounduk]

Hi Livengood
A great Concept
It will be very handy i am sure

Chris

[Insignia]

Hi Livengood
A great Concept
It will be very handy i am sure

Chris

Livengood, what? :P

At the others, This registry key isn't made by me and as such things like SpyBot can't really block/remove/ignore them, It's a key automatically created and renewed by the Windows Operating System.

[hungryhounduk]

Yeah sorry I got you mixed up

Great Concept Insignia

Chris

[zachman61]

so hows the progress on this?