NETGuard.IO protects your application from tampering and cracking using state of the art techniques.
Cost / License
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Platforms
- Windows



Confuser is described as 'Protector/obfuscator for .NET, providing great security to .NET Applications' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Confuser for a variety of platforms, including Windows, .NET Framework, Mac, Linux and Windows Mobile apps. The best Confuser alternative is NETGuard.IO, which is free. Other great apps like Confuser are Babel Obfuscator, Crypto Obfuscator For .Net, Aldaray Rummage and ArmDot.
NETGuard.IO protects your application from tampering and cracking using state of the art techniques.



Babel Obfuscator is a powerful protection tool for the Microsoft .NET Framework. Programs written in .NET languages, like C# and Visual Basic .NET, are normally easy to reverse engineer because they compile to MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language), a CPU-independent instruction...
Crypto Obfuscator For .Net provides advanced code protection, obfuscation and optimization for your .Net assemblies with its powerful techniques such as symbol renaming, method overload renaming, method call hiding, control flow obfuscation, resource and assembly encryption...

Rummage obfuscates .NET programs to prevent decompilation, re-use, stealing and hacking. Rummage has a clean, easy-to-use user interface, and a reasonable price tag.



ArmDot protects .NET applications from decompilation and reverse engineering using control flow obfuscation and code virtualization. It also includes a flexible licensing system with key generators for C/C++, C#, and PHP.

This protect .net assemblies from reverse engineering. It provides an extra layer of protection.

SmartAssembly offers an error reporting mechanism that provides you with a complete state of your program whenever it crashes. You get a full stack trace, along with the values of all variables when the crash happened.
Post-build .NET hardening and instrumentation platform for protecting, measuring and managing .NET applications. Supports .NET framework, .NET standard and .NET Core. Commercial use requires licensed version available on subscription basis.

DotRefiner is a free .NET obfuscator.
Why obfuscate your code
The goal of obfuscation is to make reverse engineering and/or cloning your application more complicated. Ideally, it should make cost of reverse engineering your application comparable to cost of developing similar a.
Skater is a .NET obfuscator and .NET code protector. It supports .NET Framework, .NET Standard and .NET Core.
Obfuscar is a basic obfuscator for .NET assemblies. It uses massive overloading to rename metadata in .NET assemblies (including the names of methods, properties, events, fields, types and namespaces) to a minimal set, distinguishable in most cases only by signature.
