PC Floppy Copy Protection: EliaShim CodeSafe
This is part 6 of a series of articles investigating various floppy copy-protection schemes seen on the IBM PC platform. You may wish to read the previous entries in this series: Part 1, covering Formaster Copy-Lock Part 2, covering Softguard Superlok Part 3, covering Electronic Arts Interlock Part 4, covering Vault Prolok Part 5, covering XEMAG Xelok EliaShim Microcomputers was a computer technology firm based in Haifa, Israel, with a US-based office in Tampa, Florida. From 1983 to the early 1990's they marketed a number of copy-protection technologies under the CodeSafe trademark . By the 90's these mostly included various dongles, with the age of floppy-based protections drawing to a close. EliaShim, unlike many of the companies we've covered, would more or less successfully pivot to different market in the mid 90's. EliaShim ViruSafe, an anti-virus product for DOS, Windows 3.1, 95 and NT, saw moderate success, enough to get EliaShim acquired by Aladdin Knowledge