DefencePlus ??????

[SPEEDY6128]

Anyone using this ?

I'am trying this out, and runs silently in the background casuing no fuss. Anyone reccomend this as another layer of defense ? Moneys not a problem, as long as it adds anything extra as protection alonside my firewall.

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[WSFuser]

iirc defenceplus supposed blocks against buffer overflow "exploits". i tried it once it was ok and it did block nero, but thats what the exclusion list is for. as for how useful it is, paranoid2000, a security expert at these forums, says this:

{QUOTE-> Buffer overflows are the result of poor coding (specifically not applying checks to the size of incoming data). The only way to properly prevent them is to rewrite the programs responsible to add such checks.

While there are programs that claim to offer "buffer overflow protection", in reality most only try to detect overflows and shut down the process responsible (or shut down the system altogether). See Phrack: Bypassing 3rd Party Windows Buffer Overflow Protection for more details on this. <-QUOTE}
{QUOTE-> The key to a buffer overflow attack is being able to send data to a system - home users with a firewall set up to block unsolicited traffic therefore have very little chance of being hit by one, only those who run servers (though this includes file-sharing software) should need to concern themselves about this. <-QUOTE}

[SPEEDY6128]

Nice one WSFuserfor for that insight.