I have searched far and wide for a way to compile my .hta file (and resources) to a .exe file.
There are plenty of applications that claim to be able to do this - bu
I'm not sure about compiling to an exe - but if you minify & obfuscate your source code, unless you've got something incredibly valuable, it'd be a huge job to reverse-engineer.
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/
Good luck.