haven't been around since v4, I have no idea whats going on after OSMAP and stuff. Any new cool protection tools around there these days? Well at least minor protection, just so every single noob can't access the map and spread 100000 different copies of it.

Also I liked the other functions like nulling comment strings and compression. Educate me!

Last I checked there's a cool korean unprotector, that also has protection that requires a password to open. Try Falk's site for it.

Falks site is down

It works for me.

It's kinda "down", but you just have to hit an extra link to get to pages, and actually download the HTML

Here's a page with most of them, StarCraft Map Cracker is the one I think Nerdy was referring to, but the one on that page is outdated, so if you're interested in it, contact me and I'll send you it, also, you may be interested in Special Protector 3, a recently released protector(check the comments on how to use it), and finally, if you want the best protection and compression available, start nagging Farty to finish TinyMap2, since it has both amazing protection, and the best compression available.