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Thanks guys - that's some really good information. &nbsp;I think I'll purchase the &quot;source code protector&quot; (as it can only be a good thing).
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Thanks guys - that's some really good information.  I think I'll purchase the "source code protector" (as it can only be a good thing).

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Glad to be of assistance. May all your days get brighter and brighter.
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Glad to be of assistance. May all your days get brighter and brighter.

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I have an Access database that I send out to clients as an MDE file. &nbsp;I have some security built into the code, but my concern is mainly along the lines of someone being able to decompile it and getting into the code/forms (via a third party product) .<br />
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I do appreciate that most of my clients wouldn't go down this route, but I feel that I need to know how secure things are.
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I have an Access database that I send out to clients as an MDE file.  I have some security built into the code, but my concern is mainly along the lines of someone being able to decompile it and getting into the code/forms (via a third party product) .

I do appreciate that most of my clients wouldn't go down this route, but I feel that I need to know how secure things are.

Protecting my Access database

Software is any set of instructions that directs a computer to perform specific tasks or operations. Computer software consists of programs, libraries and related non-executable data (such as documentation). Computer software is non-tangible, contrasted with computer hardware, which is the physical component of computers. Software written in a machine language is known as "machine code". However, in practice, software is usually written in high-level programming languages than machine language. High-level languages are translated into machine language using a compiler or interpreter or a combination of the two.

Software

Microsoft Access is a rapid application development (RAD) relational database tool. Access can be used for both desktop and web-based applications, and uses VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) as its coding language.

Microsoft Access

Security is the protection of information systems from theft or damage to the hardware, the software, and the information on them, as well as from disruption or misdirection of the services they provide. The main goal of security is protecting assets, and an asset is anything of value and worthy of protection.  Information Security is a discipline of protecting information assets from threats through safeguards to achieve the objectives of confidentiality, integrity, and availability or CIA for short. On the other hand, disclosure, alteration, and disruption (DAD) compromise the security objectives.