StarForce

:For the video game, see Star Force.

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StarForce is a software copy prevention brand by the Russian developer Protection Technology. It is compatible with the Microsoft Windows operating system. Its main strength lies in wrapping executable and DLL files using byte-code interpreted through its own virtual machine.

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StarForce is believed to operate by calculating the physical angle between the first and last written sector on the CD. This will be identical on all copies pressed from the gold master but is at present impossible to reproduce when burning a duplicate CD.

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Executable: An executable or executable file, in computer science, is a file whose contents are meant to be interpreted as a program by a computer....