Method of protecting software code

1. A method of protecting application program software executing API code including:

actuating a tracer function to copy a segment of instructions from the API code until an instruction from the API code is reached that is one selected from the group consisting of a call instruction ending outside of scope, a jmp instruction ending outside of scope, a sysenter instruction, a syscall instruction, and a branch instruction ending outside of scope, or until an instruction above a predetermined number of instructions is reached, wherein the predetermined number of instructions is above two instructions;

storing and executing the copied instructions; and

returning to the next instruction of the API code, wherein the next instruction of the API code is a first uncopied instruction of the API code.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the segment of instructions is a maximum of 16 instructions and the copied instructions are stored in the Random Access Memory (RAM) of the CPU.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the application program software is security program software.

4. The method of in claim 1 wherein the tracer function includes the following instructions:

read instruction of myfunction (interpret opcodes);

if instruction is not ((a call, jmp, sysenter, syscall or branch instruction which ends up out of scope) or (less than the 16 th instruction) ) then copy to the local buffer;

repeat above steps until out of scope;

execute the local buffer;

continue execution in the original myfunction code at the offset where the out of scope instruction was encountered.