Ken.Chang
Posts: 6
Joined: Mon Apr 16, 2018 10:04 am

Do not allow extract installation package

Hi! Sir,

We meet a serious problem. We sell our product(a install package) to our customer.
In this installation package, it contains lots of confidential files.

Our customer use the command to extract the installation package.
How to protect our installation package?

For example, let the command line return fail(Do not allow people use command line) or
any other setting to protect our installation package?

(In order to avoid the people extract installation file to stole the confidential files)

BR
Ken.Chang
Catalin
Posts: 6585
Joined: Wed Jun 13, 2018 7:49 am

Re: Do not allow extract installation package

Hello Ken,

I am afraid that I am not aware of any method in which you can prevent the user from extracting the files from your setup. Any file that you add to your package is then archived into the CAB file(s), which can be distributed in two ways:

1. next to the MSI file
2. inside the MSI file.

Hope this helps somehow.

Please let me know if there is anything else I could help you with.

All the best,
Catalin
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