Tamper protection in timed tials

Your website states, "The timed trial has tamper protection and isn't reset on re-installation of your app." I understand this and appreciate it, but I have several other tampering condition I've seen people use to circumvent the end of a trial period. One would be setting the system clock back on a regular basis to prevent the end date from ever arriving. The second would be in cases where the tamper protection only looks at the time/date stamp on launch. The user never quits the app, so the tamper protection never rechecks the time/date. Does your timed trial also protect from either of these two conditions?

What if the computer was disconnected from the internet? Does your tamper protection rely on access to the internet?

Thanks!Bruce

Hey Bruce,

One would be setting the system clock back on a regular basis to prevent the end date from ever arriving.

We prevent a number of variations of the "rollback fraud". And we'll be supporting more with TurboActivate 3.2.

The second would be in cases where the tamper protection only looks at the time/date stamp on launch. The user never quits the app, so the tamper protection never rechecks the time/date.

You can check however often you like using the GetTrialDaysRemaining() function.

Does your tamper protection rely on access to the internet?

No.

If you have any other questions I'll be glad to help.

Sam,

This answers my timed trials questions completely. Thanks for the speedy reply.

As I move forward with your product, I'm sure I'll have more questions, so will keep the questions coming as I run across them.

Thanks,Bruce

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