diff --git a/auth.cpp b/auth.cpp
index 90fd644..e1aaf62 100644
--- a/auth.cpp
+++ b/auth.cpp
@@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ void checkFiles();
 void checkRegistry();
 void error(std::string message);
 std::string generate_random_number();
+std::string curl_escape(CURL* curl, const std::string& input);
+auto check_section_integrity( const char *section_name, bool fix ) -> bool;
+void integrity_check();
+void integrity_watchdog();
 std::string seed;
 void cleanUpSeedData(const std::string& seed);
 std::string signature;
@@ -80,10 +84,13 @@ bool initialized;
 std::string API_PUBLIC_KEY = "5586b4bc69c7a4b487e4563a4cd96afd39140f919bd31cea7d1c6a1e8439422b";
 bool KeyAuth::api::debug = false;
 std::atomic<bool> LoggedIn(false);
+std::atomic<long long> last_integrity_check{ 0 };
+std::atomic<int> integrity_fail_streak{ 0 };
 
 void KeyAuth::api::init()
 {
     std::thread(runChecks).detach();
+    std::thread(integrity_watchdog).detach();
     seed = generate_random_number();
     std::atexit([]() { cleanUpSeedData(seed); });
     CreateThread(0, 0, (LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE)modify, 0, 0, 0);
@@ -100,8 +107,11 @@ void KeyAuth::api::init()
         XorStr("type=init") +
         XorStr("&ver=") + version +
         XorStr("&hash=") + hash +
-        XorStr("&name=") + curl_easy_escape(curl, name.c_str(), 0) +
+        XorStr("&name=") + curl_escape(curl, name) +
         XorStr("&ownerid=") + ownerid;
+    if (curl) {
+        curl_easy_cleanup(curl); // avoid leak from escape helper. -nigel
+    }
 
     // to ensure people removed secret from main.cpp (some people will forget to)
     if (path.find("https") != std::string::npos) {
@@ -1397,7 +1407,7 @@ std::vector<unsigned char> KeyAuth::api::download(std::string fileid) {
         XorStr("&fileid=") + fileid +
         XorStr("&sessionid=") + sessionid +
         XorStr("&name=") + name +
-        XorStr("&ownerid=").c_str() + ownerid;
+        XorStr("&ownerid=") + ownerid;
 
     auto response = req(data, url);
     auto json = response_decoder.parse(response);
@@ -1421,8 +1431,8 @@ std::string KeyAuth::api::webhook(std::string id, std::string params, std::strin
     auto data =
         XorStr("type=webhook") +
         XorStr("&webid=") + id +
-        XorStr("&params=") + curl_easy_escape(curl, params.c_str(), 0) +
-        XorStr("&body=") + curl_easy_escape(curl, body.c_str(), 0) +
+        XorStr("&params=") + curl_escape(curl, params) +
+        XorStr("&body=") + curl_escape(curl, body) +
         XorStr("&conttype=") + contenttype +
         XorStr("&sessionid=") + sessionid +
         XorStr("&name=") + name +
@@ -1601,7 +1611,16 @@ void KeyAuth::api::logout() {
 
 int VerifyPayload(std::string signature, std::string timestamp, std::string body)
 {
-    long long unix_timestamp = std::stoll(timestamp);
+    integrity_check();
+    long long unix_timestamp = 0;
+    try {
+        unix_timestamp = std::stoll(timestamp);
+    }
+    catch (...) {
+        std::cerr << "[ERROR] Invalid timestamp format\n";
+        MessageBoxA(0, "Signature verification failed (invalid timestamp)", "KeyAuth", MB_ICONERROR);
+        exit(2);
+    }
 
     auto current_time = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
     long long current_unix_time = std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::seconds>(
@@ -1678,14 +1697,30 @@ std::string get_str_between_two_str(const std::string& s,
     const std::string& start_delim,
     const std::string& stop_delim)
 {
-    unsigned first_delim_pos = s.find(start_delim);
-    unsigned end_pos_of_first_delim = first_delim_pos + start_delim.length();
-    unsigned last_delim_pos = s.find(stop_delim);
+    const auto first_delim_pos = s.find(start_delim);
+    if (first_delim_pos == std::string::npos)
+        return {};
+    const auto end_pos_of_first_delim = first_delim_pos + start_delim.length();
+    const auto last_delim_pos = s.find(stop_delim, end_pos_of_first_delim);
+    if (last_delim_pos == std::string::npos || last_delim_pos < end_pos_of_first_delim)
+        return {};
 
     return s.substr(end_pos_of_first_delim,
         last_delim_pos - end_pos_of_first_delim);
 }
 
+std::string curl_escape(CURL* curl, const std::string& input)
+{
+    if (!curl)
+        return input;
+    char* escaped = curl_easy_escape(curl, input.c_str(), 0);
+    if (!escaped)
+        return {};
+    std::string out(escaped);
+    curl_free(escaped);
+    return out;
+}
+
 void KeyAuth::api::setDebug(bool value) {
     KeyAuth::api::debug = value;
 }
@@ -1693,6 +1728,7 @@ void KeyAuth::api::setDebug(bool value) {
 std::string KeyAuth::api::req(const std::string& data, const std::string& url) {
     signature.clear();
     signatureTimestamp.clear();
+    integrity_check();
 
     CURL* curl = curl_easy_init();
     if (!curl) {
@@ -1728,6 +1764,9 @@ std::string KeyAuth::api::req(const std::string& data, const std::string& url) {
 }
 
 void error(std::string message) {
+    for (char& c : message) {
+        if (c == '&' || c == '|' || c == '\"') c = ' '; // minimize cmd injection surface. -nigel
+    }
     system((XorStr("start cmd /C \"color b && title Error && echo ").c_str() + message + XorStr(" && timeout /t 5\"")).c_str());
     LI_FN(__fastfail)(0);
 }
@@ -2059,6 +2098,38 @@ void checkInit() {
     if (!initialized) {
         error(XorStr("You need to run the KeyAuthApp.init(); function before any other KeyAuth functions"));
     }
+    integrity_check();
+}
+
+void integrity_check() {
+    const auto now = std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::seconds>(
+        std::chrono::system_clock::now().time_since_epoch()).count();
+    const auto last = last_integrity_check.load();
+    if (now - last > 30) {
+        last_integrity_check.store(now);
+        if (check_section_integrity(XorStr(".text").c_str(), false)) {
+            error(XorStr("check_section_integrity() failed, don't tamper with the program."));
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+void integrity_watchdog() {
+    std::random_device rd;
+    std::mt19937 gen(rd());
+    std::uniform_int_distribution<int> sleep_seconds(20, 50);
+    while (true) {
+        Sleep(static_cast<DWORD>(sleep_seconds(gen) * 1000));
+        if (!initialized || !LoggedIn.load())
+            continue;
+        if (check_section_integrity(XorStr(".text").c_str(), false)) {
+            const int streak = integrity_fail_streak.fetch_add(1) + 1;
+            if (streak >= 2) {
+                error(XorStr("check_section_integrity() failed, don't tamper with the program."));
+            }
+        } else {
+            integrity_fail_streak.store(0);
+        }
+    }
 }
 // code submitted in pull request from https://github.com/BINM7MD
 BOOL bDataCompare(const BYTE* pData, const BYTE* bMask, const char* szMask)
diff --git a/auth.hpp b/auth.hpp
index f229460..31e0920 100644
--- a/auth.hpp
+++ b/auth.hpp
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ namespace KeyAuth {
 			api::user_data.createdate = data[XorStr("createdate")];
 			api::user_data.lastlogin = data[XorStr("lastlogin")];
 
-			for (int i = 0; i < data[XorStr("subscriptions")].size(); i++) { // Prompto#7895 & stars#2297 was here
+			for (size_t i = 0; i < data[XorStr("subscriptions")].size(); i++) { // Prompto#7895 & stars#2297 was here
 				subscriptions_class subscriptions;
 				subscriptions.name = data[XorStr("subscriptions")][i][XorStr("subscription")];
 				subscriptions.expiry = data[XorStr("subscriptions")][i][XorStr("expiry")];
@@ -153,7 +153,10 @@ namespace KeyAuth {
 			api::response.success = data["success"]; // intentional. Possibly trick a reverse engineer into thinking this string is for login function
 			api::response.message = data["message"];
 			api::response.channeldata.clear(); //If you do not delete the data before pushing it, the data will be repeated. github.com/TTakaTit
-			for (const auto sub : data["messages"]) {
+			if (!data.contains("messages") || !data["messages"].is_array()) {
+				return; // avoid invalid server payload crash. -nigel
+			}
+			for (const auto& sub : data["messages"]) {
 
 				std::string authoroutput = sub[XorStr("author")];
 				std::string messageoutput = sub["message"];
diff --git a/killEmulator.hpp b/killEmulator.hpp
index 50c2ddf..d1cdcd3 100644
--- a/killEmulator.hpp
+++ b/killEmulator.hpp
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+#pragma once
 #include <windows.h>
 #include <iostream>
 #include <psapi.h>
@@ -20,7 +21,7 @@ namespace protection
 		MODULEINFO info; // place holder for the information
 
 		// use this function in order to get the module information.
-		bool result = GetModuleInformation(reinterpret_cast<HANDLE>(-1), 
+		bool result = GetModuleInformation(GetCurrentProcess(),
 			module, &info, sizeof(info));
 		if (result)
 		{
diff --git a/utils.cpp b/utils.cpp
index 0b09151..221e5cc 100644
--- a/utils.cpp
+++ b/utils.cpp
@@ -12,9 +12,11 @@ std::string utils::get_hwid() {
 }
 
 std::time_t utils::string_to_timet(std::string timestamp) {
-	auto cv = strtol(timestamp.c_str(), NULL, 10);
-
-	return (time_t)cv;
+	char* end = nullptr;
+	auto cv = strtol(timestamp.c_str(), &end, 10);
+	if (end == timestamp.c_str())
+		return 0;
+	return static_cast<time_t>(cv);
 }
 
 std::tm utils::timet_to_tm(time_t timestamp) {
diff --git a/utils.hpp b/utils.hpp
index a2e0343..c0cbf91 100644
--- a/utils.hpp
+++ b/utils.hpp
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 #pragma once
 #include <Windows.h>
+#include <ctime>
 #include <iostream>
+#include <string>
 
 namespace utils
 {
 	std::string get_hwid();
 	std::time_t string_to_timet(std::string timestamp);
 	std::tm timet_to_tm(time_t timestamp);
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}