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There are two methods to demo the neosecure system. The first is a graphical walk-through of how the system works that you will find on the remainder of this page.

The second is to download the small (1385K) neosecuredemo.exe  file. Once installed, it is imperative that you print the first page of instructions within the program before proceeding with the real-time, client-side demonstration as it will walk you through all aspects of a NeoSecure protected product including what happens when a serial number has been disabled.

Even if you plan to download the real-time demo, it would be beneficial to review the content below so you are familiar with what you will be seeing in real-time with the client-side demo.

The NeoSecure Graphical Walk-Through:

Both the NeoSecure Plug-In and the NeoSecure Shell have basically the same capabilities and functions. Many of the options covered below can be deativated if desired.

Step 1: The Installation
Step 2: The Demo / Trial Version Period
Step 3: The Valid Registration
Step 4: Controlling Multiple Registrations
Step 5: Disabling a Specific Copy
Step 6: Your Administrative Access

Step 1:  The Installation

Upon installation of each copy of your NeoSecured product, you will receive an Email indicating that a copy has been installed. The message also contains the Remote IP and other unique identifying data. This notification will be sent immediately upon the first launch of the product if an active online connection is present. If no connection is present, you can choose to have NeoSecure wait until one is or to prompt the user to establish such.

Step 2: The Demo / Trial Version period

If desired, NeoSecure can be set-up to create a demo period of a set number of uses of your product before registration becomes necessary. If this option is used, the end user will see a screen similar to the one below each time they launch your product. The screen will indicate exactly how many trial uses are remaining.

STEP 3: The Valid Registration

As the programmer, you can decide where and when you want the registration screen to appear and the look and feel of that screen. We provide you with the specific calls that must be made to our neosecure.exe and the possible responses that will be returned from our servers. A sample registration screen is below.

Upon entering a valid serial number / unlock key combination - clicking on the Register button will send the call to our servers and a specific response will be sent back. At that time three things take place.

First, another Email message is sent to you indicating that a copy of your NeoSecured product has just been unlocked and registered. This message will contain the same data as the Install notification along with the serial number / unlock key used to register. A record of the number of times any or all keys have been used is recorded on our server and you can view this data via your Admin Access.

Secondly, upon the appropriate server response, a screen similar to the one below will appear to the end user:

Finally, NeoSecure provides you a "backdoor" communication channel into every single installed copy of your software making it possible for you to trigger a "Latest News Flash" dialog box such as the one shown below. This box will automatically come up right after initial registration and continue to appear until the News Flash associated with it has been viewed (via the default browser). If you wish to trigger the "Latest News Flash" 10 times a day, this can be done through the Admin Access.

Step 4: Controlling Multiple Registrations

Using the Admin Access we provide, you have the option and ability to prevent any serial number from being used again to register a copy of your product.

Upon receipt of the Registration Notification, you could log onto our NeoSecure server and prevent the serial number from being used to register additional copies while allowing all copies using that number to continue to function. Or, you could periodically check your files on our servers to monitor how many times any given keys have been used and prevent further use at your descretion.

If an end user tries to use a serial number that has been coded as above, they will receive a screen similar to the one below:

Step 5: Disabling a Specific Copy

Piracy, cracks, hacks, fraud and refunds are well known to all software and content developers. While no system is completely hack-proof, NeoSecure offers several distinc advantages over the conventional methods of software registration.

First, the NeoSecure serial number / unlock key combinations are not based upon an algorithm that is hard-coded into the source code of the product thereby allowing a valid or hacked number to work in all existing copies. Our system is actually very simple, if any given number/key set is not contained in the appropriate server-side files - the registration will not be allowed.

Secondly, unlike the above or even a unique machine identifier / algorithm based system (that is much harder to crack but entails additional communication between you and the end-user), NeoSecure gives you the ability to disable any given serial number at will, thereby shutting down all copies in existance that are using that number.

So, in the event of a refund, fraud or publication of a valid number/key on a crack newsgroup - or if you see that a given number has been used more times than you believe appropriate, you can easily disable that number via the Admin Access.

Once a serial number has been disabled, every installed copy using that serial number will display a message similar to the one below the next time the application is launched or makes server-side contact. The only option provided to the end user is to immediately exit the program.

Step 6: The Administrative Access

As a NeoSecure customer, you are provided complete administrative control over your NeoSecured products via a password protected, Web-based interface as shown below.

Through this interface, you can monitor the number of times each number/key has been used, prevent keys from reuse, disable existing copies, trigger the "Latest News Flash" dialog box and change the URL where your Latest News page resides.

When ever you update your files using the Admin Access, our primary server updates not only the local copy of your files but also the redundant copies on the backup servers that are accessed by a NeoSecured product in the event the primary server is temporarily unavailable.

The only thing you can not do through the Admin Access is add additional serial numbers / unlock keys to your Master file. This will be done by us as additional NeoSecure Keys are purchased by you - please see the Pricing page.