thanks for the comments, will follow up with findings.

We are a small outfit and relied heavily on the security software that we purchased for securing, wrapping our EXE and timing out the trial

I have recently researched 5 other software programs to do provide this function
ALL have been compromised recently.

The crackers just disabled the call to the DLL in various locations within our program. and open she was!

I like the Hasp (dongle – hardware) solution for licensed users and that should provide some comport for the time being