Product Overview

Automatic software update is becoming a standard feature in many software products today. It makes it easier for the users to keep the software up-to-date at all times, without hassle of having to check for a new version, download, and install manually. There are also many benefits to the software vendor. You can ensure that more users are using the most up-to-date software. A new release can be updated to the users quickly, easily, and automatically. As a result, a bug could be fixed before the user ever experiences the problems. This allows you to provide a higher level of reliability, raise overall customer satisfaction, reduce complaints and support cases, etc.

UpdateShield 1.0 is the complete solution for automatic software update. It provides a quick and easy solution to integrate an automatic update system into your application. There is no need to add or modify any single line of code. With your original software application, UpdateShield allows you to easily turn it into a new version with the automatic update capability. UpdateShield offers a rich set of features and solutions. Many tools are provided that will give you options to add, build, and customize the automatic update system to meet your needs and expectations. The provided automatic update tools include:

• UpdateShield Integrator
• UpdateCheck API
• UpdateCheck .NET Component

Developed under the core technology of Sciensoft Software Security, UpdateShield does not only provide an automatic update system, but also offers code protection to safeguard your application against decompilation and reverse engineering. When using UpdateShield Integrator to add the automatic update capability, its shell protection also encrypts the executable (as well as the whole .NET assembly), which is to be decrypted only just before the run time. In addition, the shell protection also implements algorithms to protect against debugging, tracing, code modification, and virus infection.

Provides the shell protection to integrate the automatic update capability into your application.

Offers a higher level of flexibility and customization to add automatic update capabilities.

Includes an automatic update component for .NET application development.

Provides the solution that extends the managability of software updates available to the users.