Guardant’s autoprotection tools consist of several console utilities (a utility for protecting Nativeapplications and two separate utilities for the obfuscation and protection of .NET code assemblies) as well as GUI utilities:
| Autoprotection Utilities | Function | |
|---|---|---|
| Filename | Type | |
| NwKey32.exe | Console | Native executables protection |
| CodeObfuscator.exe | .NET obfuscation and string encryption | |
| CodeProtect.exe | .NET obfuscation and string encryption | |
| LicenseWizard.exe | GUI | Autoprotection and licensing wizard (Native & .NET) |
| NativeProfilerGUI.exe | Native profiler | |
| NativeProfilerGUI.exe | .NET profiler | |
Protection mechanisms for Native applications and .NET assemblies have significant differences; therefore we will consider them separately:
- Native Executables Automatic Protection
- .NET Assemblies Automatic protection