Arovax Shield Version 2.0.70 [as of December 14 2006]

[btman]

Note: On December 13, Arovax Shield Version 2.0.68 (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?p=902157#post902157).
Note: On December 14, Arovax Shield Version 2.0.70 (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?p=902335#post902335).


Arovax Shield Version 2.0.62 [November 17 2006]

* New: "Algorithm of work of News tab was upgraded."
* New: "Minimal waste of the memory."
* Fixed: "Problems with adding and deleting the great number of the rules."
* Fixed: "Problems with monitoring of the Windows system policy."
* New: "Info tab works better!" (That should have been in the actual changelog lol)

I didn't try it by the liveupdate feature in Arovax Shield.... Maybe someone can... But I got it from www.arovaxshield.com their official site :D

*Works with Opera, Firefox and IE.

Great program, enjoy!

[acr1965]

I am currently using System Safety Monitor. How would these two products contrast and compare? It looks like they are both nice programs...are there any tests/ratings of the two?

[btman]

I don't think theres any test comparing the two, but they should not conflict.

[WSFuser]

i havent tried the new v2 of Arovax Shield, but v1 was rather light-weight compared to other HIPS like SSM and PG.

why not try it yourself and see what u think?

[acr1965]

So it's ok to run SSM and Arovax Shield at the same time?

[dah145]

-{ Quote: "So it's ok to run SSM and Arovax Shield at the same time?" }-

I think there should not be any conflicts, just allow it on SSM.

[Hyperion]

-{ Quote: "I am currently using System Safety Monitor. How would these two products contrast and compare? It looks like they are both nice programs...are there any tests/ratings of the two?" }-

I don't remember Arovax,but by visiting their site,it seems more a competitor of Win Patrol,rather than SSM.I don't think it offers the protection of SSM.But someone may not need something like SSM and this must be lighter and more hassle free.

[btman]

Yeah Arovax Sheild, under protection this is what it says

1. Blocks IE Hijacks
2. Blocks Browser Extensions
3. Enable IE tracking cookies shield
4. Enable Firefox tracking cookies shield
5. Enable Opera tracking cookies shield
6. Block Auto start sections
7. Block executable file associations
8. Guard host files
9. Guard startup folder
10. Guard Windows policies

It's not hips though, as theres not many popups lol. And it will ask you to allow or block anything that it protects (unless its tracking cookies) and you can delete any rules you have made. On my computer it always takes less than 5k memory... And is one hell of a nifty program.

[acr1965]

-{ Quote: "Yeah Arovax Sheild, under protection this is what it says

1. Blocks IE Hijacks
2. Blocks Browser Extensions
3. Enable IE tracking cookies shield
4. Enable Firefox tracking cookies shield
5. Enable Opera tracking cookies shield
6. Block Auto start sections
7. Block executable file associations
8. Guard host files
9. Guard startup folder
10. Guard Windows policies

It's not hips though, as theres not many popups lol. And it will ask you to allow or block anything that it protects (unless its tracking cookies) and you can delete any rules you have made. On my computer it always takes less than 5k memory... And is one hell of a nifty program." }-

It sounds like the same type of active protection of my CounterSpy anti-spyware program. Although I could see where the lower resource usage would be a plus.

[duke1959]

Just want to say that I just installed the new version of Arovax Shield and unlike the last one, it didn't work while two accounts were running at the same time and switching to the other one. I uninstalled it for now and I don't remember what the error no. was. Maybe it is a bug with the Fast User Switching that it must have, because like I said the last version ran fine with two accounts logged on at the same time. Other than that, the improvements were good. It knew I didn't have Opera installed as it was unchecked after install. Also memory usage quite low, and it immediately blocked some FireFox cookies. Oh, my PC had to be shut down manually after uninstall though. This also didn't happen with last version.

[btman]

Could you please reinstall and record the error # and post the error.txt log when you have time, and post it here or on the Arovax forums @ forum.arovax.com. Thanks.

[bellgamin]

Arovax Shield is a poller -- 'nuff said.

[Hyperion]

I just installed it...and uninstalled it right after.I also got the error that it can't find opera (of course,it can't ,i don't have it),but that's a minor thing.What bothered me was that every 10 seconds more or less,i was getting firewall pop up,that Arovax wanted to connect to 70.86.248.210 (which results to Texas).So in uninstalled it.Maybe it's checking for updates,i don't know,but i prefer checking for myself.I didn't see any option to disable auto updates either,so...

[Hyperion]

P.S: That IP is from Arovax allright.

[dah145]

How good is in detection rates?

Edit: just noticed that is a simple shield, not an AS.

[Rasheed187]

Well, I´m afraid I always got strange/not clear enough alert messages plus it often crashed when turning on/off protection, must have been some conflict, so I removed the older version from my system.

The only thing that I used it for was to monitor my startup folder. And the cookies shield is alo interesting, I´m not sure if I need it though since I often clean all of my cookies with Cookie Monster. But anyway, Neoava Guard covers the same things except for these 2 features.

-{ Quote: "
10. Guard Windows policies" }-

Does anyone know what the Windows Policies feature is about?

-{ Quote: "Arovax Shield is a poller -- 'nuff said." }-

I believe you´re not correct about this, it´s using hooks AFAIK. ::)

[btman]

-{ Quote: "I just installed it...and uninstalled it right after.I also got the error that it can't find opera (of course,it can't ,i don't have it),but that's a minor thing.What bothered me was that every 10 seconds more or less,i was getting firewall pop up,that Arovax wanted to connect to 70.86.248.210 (which results to Texas).So in uninstalled it.Maybe it's checking for updates,i don't know,but i prefer checking for myself.I didn't see any option to disable auto updates either,so..." }-

I believe thats for the INFO tab... It connects to a site that will have updated news.... So go there everyday and see if a new version of Arovax Shield or possibly any Arovax product has been released. If you kept clicking on the info tab... Or put it on the info tab, closed Arovax Shield and re-opened it (it would still be on the info tab) and so it would try and re-connect. This is due to the fact that the last version wouldn't connect on the first try, but now thats fixed. And yeah it doesn't rely on detection, so no such auto-update is made yet. Though there is a live-update feature that should work in this version to update to improved ones.

[Hyperion]

-{ Quote: "I believe thats for the INFO tab... It connects to a site that will have updated news.... So go there everyday and see if a new version of Arovax Shield or possibly any Arovax product has been released. If you kept clicking on the info tab... Or put it on the info tab, closed Arovax Shield and re-opened it (it would still be on the info tab) and so it would try and re-connect. This is due to the fact that the last version wouldn't connect on the first try, but now thats fixed. And yeah it doesn't rely on detection, so no such auto-update is made yet. Though there is a live-update feature that should work in this version to update to improved ones.
Reply With Quote" }-

You are right.I installed it again and this time i didn't click the info window and got no popup.As soon as i clicked it,it asked permission outbound.My mistake.

Thanks!I think i ll keep it over WinPatrol.Seems lighter.

[Yannis]

ArovaxShield does not send any personal data to Arovax server.
It's a solid program that I fully trust.
:)

[bellgamin]

I installed the latest Arovax but it caused so much instability to our computers that I had to do an image restore.

1- Upon installation, Arovax autoloaded itself into a startup spot. I was given no choice in the matter until AFTER I rebooted & Arovax executed.

2- Arovax put an icon into my sytem tray without giving me any choice.

3- Every so often Arovax popped up a message that Opera is missing. Not surprising because I have never installed Opera on my system.

4- After I unchecked the "load-at-startup" button of Arovax, and restarted my computer, Arovax still loaded automatically.

5- When I tried to uninstall Arovax, my firewall popped up a notice that Arovax was trying to call home.

There is one other matter that occurred, but I won't list it as being related to Arovax because I didn't research it. Here are the details...

+I use an integrity checker called Watcher (http://www.snapfiles.com/get/olwatcher.html) that automatically does a check each time my computer boots.
+After I installed Arovax, Watcher reported that there were now two versions of svchost.exe on my computer, having differing hashes.
+After I uninstalled Arovax, Watcher reported that the added/modified svchost.exe was still present. I then decided to restore the image I had made the day before testing Arovax.
+After the image was restored, Watcher did not find the additional instance of svchost.exe any more. It was gone.
+I have no idea where the added instance of svchost.exe came from. Also, I did not check to see if the added instance of svchost.exe was benign or malware. I just wanted my computer back to where it was yesterday, and Image for DOS did that for me very nicely.

Needless to say, I have no further interest whatsoever in Arovax Shield.

[btman]

-{ Quote: "I installed the latest Arovax but it caused so much instability to our computers that I had to do an image restore.

1- Upon installation, Arovax autoloaded itself into a startup spot. I was given no choice in the matter until AFTER I rebooted & Arovax executed.

2- Arovax put an icon into my sytem tray without giving me any choice.

3- Every so often Arovax popped up a message that Opera is missing. Not surprising because I have never installed Opera on my system.

4- After I unchecked the "load-at-startup" button of Arovax, and restarted my computer, Arovax still loaded automatically.

5- When I tried to uninstall Arovax, my firewall popped up a notice that Arovax was trying to call home.

There is one other matter that occurred, but I won't list it as being related to Arovax because I didn't research it. Here are the details...

+I use an integrity checker called Watcher (http://www.snapfiles.com/get/olwatcher.html) that automatically does a check each time my computer boots.
+After I installed Arovax, Watcher reported that there were now two versions of svchost.exe on my computer, having differing hashes.
+After I uninstalled Arovax, Watcher reported that the added/modified svchost.exe was still present. I then decided to restore the image I had made the day before testing Arovax.
+After the image was restored, Watcher did not find the additional instance of svchost.exe any more. It was gone.
+I have no idea where the added instance of svchost.exe came from. Also, I did not check to see if the added instance of svchost.exe was benign or malware. I just wanted my computer back to where it was yesterday, and Image for DOS did that for me very nicely.

Needless to say, I have no further interest whatsoever in Arovax Shield." }-

Ok... Here it begins..

1. You don't need to reboot after downloading Arovax Shield, atleast i didnt after this latest version, you coulda just ran it.

2. Does kaspersky (or w.e anti-virus program you have) give you a choice to disable the icon? No, most security programs (and even normal ones like msn) don't. It's a protection thing, with no scanner, real time protection, it's not like spywareblaster with download and forget, it's more like spyware guard with much more functionality. (Spyware guard also sits in the tray.)

3. That was fixed in this latest version, hasn't popped up for me since. I can't really comment much more unless i get a screenshot showing arovax shield 2.0.62 and then the opera cannot be found notification.

4. Did you hit APPLY SETTINGS, i just turned off automatic startup and hit apply settings, kaspersky told me that it was attempting to modify startup items I allowed it to... restarted computer... arovax shield was not in tray or in task manager.

5. Lots of things have that... You no where it opens some webpage saying why you disliked their product... I'm pretty sure that's what it was.

6. Arovax might modify svchost.exe for protection purposes? I have no clue, we're working on getting a rep from Arovax come on these boards... So until then I can't answer that.

7. Oh there is no 7... Well I can atleast point out Arovax Shield IS NOT malware related in any way, so if you uninstalled Arovax Shield... It should have been the way it was yesterday, as you have not listed any reason for... why it wasnt like it was.

[Yannis]

-{ Quote: "I don't think theres any test comparing the two, but they should not conflict." }-

I have instaled ProSecurity free version and it goes well with ArovaxShield 2.0.62 , plus with all other security software.
:)

[Perman]

Hi, folks: I had a major problem w/ v.1x; when it was deleted, it took most of icons in system tray w/ it. Before I get my feet wet this time, I like to know whether this bug has been fixed?

[Yannis]

-{ Quote: "Hi, folks: I had a major problem w/ v.1x; when it was deleted, it took most of icons in system tray w/ it. Before I get my feet wet this time, I like to know whether this bug has been fixed?" }-

It's the first time to hear this.
You don't have to delete the old version in order to install a new one. Just instal the new in the same folder, it will sit over the old one.
Please notice that ArovaxShield 2.0.xx requires Win 2000 or XP
:)

[Perman]

-{ Quote: "It's the first time to hear this.
You don't have to delete the old version in order to install a new one. Just instal the new in the same folder, it will sit over the old one.
:)" }-
Hi, folks: No, no .This is not I meant. I had v.1x a while back, and for some reasons, I decided to uninstall it, that is when the unfortunate struck. I am asking that will this situation repeat w/ v.2 ????

[Yannis]

-{ Quote: "Hi, folks: No, no .This is not I meant. I had v.1x a while back, and for some reasons, I decided to uninstall it, that is when the unfortunate struck. I am asking that will this situation repeat w/ v.2 ????" }-

Well it sounds very strange, I can't see the reason why that happened the first time.
About the second I don't know.
Why don't you ask this to the Arovax forum (http://forum.arovax.com/index.php)?
:)

[btman]

-{ Quote: "Hi, folks: No, no .This is not I meant. I had v.1x a while back, and for some reasons, I decided to uninstall it, that is when the unfortunate struck. I am asking that will this situation repeat w/ v.2 ????" }-


I've said this in a few places but the same thing happened to me... Hasn't happened since I've updated the version... I'm going to have to say it was fixed.
:D

[duke1959]

It was definitely fixed as the last version 1.3.15 ran great on my PC which has a Two User Account set up, and both were fine after uninstalling it. Unfortunately version 2 is another thing. I installed it and this version would only run on one account at a time, and I got an error message that I posted in the Arovax Forum yesterday. Although I haven't got an answer back yet as to what it might be, I'm thinking it has something to do with Fast User Switching, but only time will tell. Or maybe not.

[btman]

Yeah it doesnt work i just did it, it didn't work while just doing normal user switching. I just hit log out.. switch users... went on to another account and my computer froze, should be fixed soon.

[Rasheed187]

Second try: What´s the "Protect Windows Policies" feature about?

And btw, except for the cookies shield (and perhaps the Windows Policies feature, not sure yet), Neoava Guard covers the same things and even more, I just saw that it also monitors the startup folder, but I´m going to test it a bit more. Also, NG´s alert messages are a lot more clear. ;)

[gevin]

It's good thing to see 2 or more freeware provide such a good protection for the community.

i think we, as a user, should not complain or blame the product for not so effective, or 1 product is more powerful than other. Please do send your comment or view or bugs reports to the respective developer, i am sure they will glad enough to improve their product for you.

Neoava Guard or Arovax Shield, i tried them all, they are new, of course they will be buggie here and there. Commercial product do have bug too, even after few round of alpha beta testing... who to blame, the OS, the users, the heckers, the spyguys... ? Once thing for sure, i support these freeware, all the way...

[farmerlee]

It won't install on windows 2003 so i cannot try it out :(.

[Yannis]

-{ Quote: "It won't install on windows 2003 so i cannot try it out :(." }-

At least you can try version 1.
;)

[farmerlee]

-{ Quote: "At least you can try version 1.
;)" }-
Yeah i really liked version 1, it always worked great and was very light. I'm sad i cannot use version 2....

[btman]

-{ Quote: "It was definitely fixed as the last version 1.3.15 ran great on my PC which has a Two User Account set up, and both were fine after uninstalling it. Unfortunately version 2 is another thing. I installed it and this version would only run on one account at a time, and I got an error message that I posted in the Arovax Forum yesterday. Although I haven't got an answer back yet as to what it might be, I'm thinking it has something to do with Fast User Switching, but only time will tell. Or maybe not." }-

Fixed in next version.

[btman]

-{ Quote: "Second try: What´s the "Protect Windows Policies" feature about?

And btw, except for the cookies shield (and perhaps the Windows Policies feature, not sure yet), Neoava Guard covers the same things and even more, I just saw that it also monitors the startup folder, but I´m going to test it a bit more. Also, NG´s alert messages are a lot more clear. ;)" }-

Arovax Shield watches the startup folder... "Guard Startup Folder"

And Arovax is a small program with very little people working for them, don't compare it to the big boys yet..(Neoava Guards prolly been around longer)... That would be like saying some company new to anti-virus technology made a program (Like Comodo, which is semi-new) to Kaspersky's right now.

[Rasheed187]

@ Gevin

-{ Quote: "Arovax Shield watches the startup folder... "Guard Startup Folder" " }-

Yes I know, but you didn´t answer my question. :blink:

-{ Quote: "And Arovax is a small program with very little people working for them, don't compare it to the big boys yet..(Neoava Guards prolly been around longer" }-

Actually you´re wrong about this, Neoava is developed by only one guy and it´s a lot more powerful than Arovax. It´s also very low on resources. I´m not saying that AS is trash or anything, but I´m just a bit disappointed about the improvements that´s all.

[Yannis]

-{ Quote: "
I´m not saying that AS is trash or anything, but I´m just a bit disappointed about the improvements that´s all." }-

Well, you can see the upcoming features in the updated roadmap (http://forum.arovax.com/showthread.php?t=64).
;)

[fred128]

Just to let you folks know, one of my machines is an older Windows 98 SE and I put Arovax in. The latest version is working fine.
Would any of you know if it would be ok to also run another anti-spyware program in real time along with Arovax or would they conflict? Thanks.

[Yannis]

-{ Quote: "Just to let you folks know, one of my machines is an older Windows 98 SE and I put Arovax in. The latest version is working fine.
Would any of you know if it would be ok to also run another anti-spyware program in real time along with Arovax or would they conflict? Thanks." }-

As far as I know Arovax Antispyware works fine with these:

Avast 4.7 free, AVG 7.1, ArovaxShield 2.0.62, SmartHide 1.0.226, Spyware Doctor 4.0, CounterSpy 1.5, Ewido 4.0, Spybot S&D, Sygate Personal Firewall 5.6, A-squared 2.1 free, Ad-Aware SE Plus, SpywareTerminator 1.7

my PC has Win XP SP2.
For more compatibility issues refer to the Arovax forum (http://forum.arovax.com/index.php), and see www.arovaxantispyware.com site.

[duke1959]

In their forum, Arovax Admin said a newer release will be out today. I started a thread about this program, but will ask here if that's okay. If anyone is using it, and with what other programs.

[btman]

A-Shield Version 2.0.68 [December 13 2006]

* New: "Rules Encrypting (file rules.xml)."
* New: "Creating rules based on md5-identification of running processes files."
* New: "Arovax News Tab updating option will be added."
* New: "Ability for Arovax Shield to work without Administrator permissions."
* Fixed: "A bug during switching between two Windows accounts."

Woot!

[Chubb]

2.0.70 was out today...;D

[btman]

Yep they fixed some error in this version... before I could even test the last one lol

[btman]

Arovax Shield Version 2.0.75 (New Year Edition) [December 27 2006]

* New: "Autosave log files."
* Fixed: "Problem with the Opera detection under the account which does have administrator rights."
* Fixed: "Problem with save options and rules under the account which does have administrator rights."
* Fixed: "Problem with launch Arovax Shield on w2k."

Uninstall previous version before installing this one... As 3 icons that I could not remove were put on my desktop so I had to uninstall this one... Then reinstall it.

And can someone check the Info tab (on the version before this) to see if it says that this version is out? (Just wondering)

[Legendkiller]

is this really good i mean,at blocking spyware with its real-time protection??

Actually i am running outpost(w/o As)+avast and was looking forward to a software like arovax shield..

[btman]

It's not top-notch right now, but as you can see with all these releases, they are working on improving the program greatly, and it still has some of the best features to come! I'm looking forward to when Arovax Anti-Spyware and Arovax Shield become competitors to "best" anti-spyware companies out there.

Also we were told that the next A-Shield version will pass all Spycar tests, so hopefully that will come very soon! (If it's not this one, we haven't been told yet)

[gevin]

i would say Arovax is a very young company, but have a team that very dedicated & dream high. Glad to see them grow.

[Yannis]

Hi
Arovax is a small company and needs all of us to help/support their products.
Indeed they have great dreams , see Analyzer project.
Thanks
:)

[btman]

Please note you should uninstall the last version before installing this one. Some people are having errors for not doing this. Your rules should be saved though.

[duke1959]

Hey btman, how have you been? I was wondering if you could answer just a few questions. I saw that the latest version of Arovax Shield is causing high PC usage when using Firefox. Do you think this will be true for all systems, or more of a glitch on just a few? I was ready to try the new version but didn't yet because of this. I like AS very much and want to use it. What's your thoughts?

[btman]

I don't notice the lag in internet speed, or anything really but when I did notice Arovax was taking PC usage was while listening to videos (Yes only listening, this is like live bands and stuff, so i don't need to see the performance again) in Winamp... I go to change the song but Winamp starts lagging, and so does the video a bit. Sometimes the song skips a little but not often.. I hit Ctrl alt delete... and I notice Arovax Shield is taking up the PC usage.

If you turn off the FF cookie guard in Arovax Shield, the PC usage stays low.

I'm not sure if it happens on every PC and so far one other user (who uses FF obviously) has said something.

While looking further into this... I sent a video of Arovax Shields PC usage to Arovax Support showing how when loading a page in FF it goes up for like 5 seconds.. Then after the page is loaded it goes back down to 0, but I haven't gotten a respond on this yet.

But yeah, I only notice the lag while watching vids in Winamp, and sometimes it doesn't happen at all. It's weird lol.

Otherwise yeah, if you want to do regular activities on your computer, the A-Shield should not interfere with anything, or slow your pc at all.

Oh and I've been great lol. (I've edited this post like 8 times ><)

[duke1959]

Thanks btman, I may try it along with my AVG ISS. Or I may uninstall the Spyware Component in it and just use Arovax Shield for my AS protection since I use FF with NoScript. The Spyware Component seems to cause some lag when starting up, and never catches anything, plus it runs very high in pc usage. Doesn't seem to slow down the PC in any other way, but I feel Arovax Shield may be better protection for FF.

[btman]

If you do, I hope you have only good experiences with Arovax Shield in 2007. Happy New Year.

[btman]

New Arovax Shield Beta!

Version 2.1.82 beta [January 26 2007]

* New: "New system of monitoring files and folders. Now it works on kernel mode."
* New: "Now Arovax Shield detects what process name tray get access to files and folders."
* New: "Now Arovax Shield is saving the settings after update."

Great program... Right now though some users (like myself) are reporting that it may conflict with the latest version of Comodo Firewall. If you are experiencing the freezing a temporary fix is to go into Comodo and deselect Security->Advanced->Misc.->Protect own keys and files from unathorized modifications should fix the issue.
That is from Comodo support :)

[lordraiden]

Arovax is like Cyberhawk??? Which is better??

[btman]

Hey lordraiden,

You can use both products together with no problems several users have indicated.

I don't use Cyberhawk, but I like Arovax products because they listen to ideas and have many releases fixing bugs (as you can see from all the other beta's in this thread).

I would suggest installing Arovax Shield from www.arovaxshield.com or the new beta version from http://forum.arovax.com/showthread.php?p=5630#post5630 and please post your opinions on the Arovax forum too! You may like both products and decide to keep them both, or you might choose to uninstall one of them... They are both great programs and hopefully they will both keep improving.

[Rasheed187]

-{ Quote: "* New: "New system of monitoring files and folders. Now it works on kernel mode."
* New: "Now Arovax Shield detects what process name tray get access to files and folders."
* New: "Now Arovax Shield is saving the settings after update."" }-

I don´t get it, so now AS also monitors files and folders. But for what exactly? It does sound cool though. :blink:

[rdsu]

-{ Quote: "I don't use Cyberhawk, but I like Arovax products because they listen to ideas and have many releases fixing bugs (as you can see from all the other beta's in this thread). " }-
They are very slow and their support is very bad... :thumbd:

[btman]

Vampiric Crow... I agree right now... But I was talking mainly for A-Shield because it is going at a decent pace.
Arovax Shield 2.1.90 beta!

* New: "Much faster Firefox cookies scan."
* New: "Now Arovax Shield defines the process which tries to change the hosts file."
* New: "New technology "SDT-Antipatch"."
* New: "Arovax Shield is now fully compatible with Windows Server 2003 on the x86 platform."
* Fixed: "Startup folder monitoring problems in Windows 2000."
* Fixed: "Problems with Terminal Service."
* Fixed: "Crash while exiting Arovax Shield in Windows 2000."
* Fixed: "Problems during moving the files to startup folder."
PS: If your copy of Arovax Shield does load your CPU too much during work with Firefox - please try this version of AS.

Download @

http://forum.arovax.com/showthread.php?p=6040#post6040

Enjoy!

And mods.. Can you change the title to this version? Or have it so I can...Or give me the person I should PM to change it... Or something of the likes.

[btman]

-{ Quote: "Second try: What´s the "Protect Windows Policies" feature about?
" }-

Someone asked on the Arovax Forums and got this:
"Click for Start button -> Run -> type gpedit.msc and click Ok. Then in the left panel choise User Configuration -> Administrative Templates, select for example Start Menu and Taskbar and in right part of window make double-click of any item. Then select Enable and click Ok and you get alert-dialog of Arovax Shield."

Sorry for a late... Actual answer lol. I had no clue. Rasheed, and any other users... From this point on until Arovax gets a representative here I'll post your questions on the Arovax Forums and will post the replies here.

Rasheed I posted your question like 3 posts above on the Arovax forums and will get you the reply asap.

[duke1959]

Thanks btman, I saw this in the AS forum, but will ask here exactly what am I doing if I follow those instructions? It seems a little confusing, but then again I haven't tried it yet. I appreciate some input.

[btman]

Rasheed Arovax Shield had monitered Startup folders (So you can stop things from loading on startup...Some malware/rogue programs can try to load on startup) and hosts file for a while. (Which I think a hijacked host file can send users to malicious sites, and can also block users from going to good sites ... Like here incase they want help because they are infected) In the 2.1.82 it was just a new system of monitoring the folders that works in kernel mode now.

And so with A-Shield you can stop things from loading in startup folders/allow them and stop/allow changes to your hosts file. Depending on if you choose stop/allow obviously lol.

Duke1959 Arovax support said -{ Quote: "Some malicious software tries to modify these parameters. For example SpyCar tests is try to remove the Security Tab in your IE Internet Options Screen (User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components - > Internet Expolrer -> Internet Control Panel -> Disable Security page) ." }-

And not sure if I said this above but all of these versions work with the latest version of Comodo Firewall and do not conflict anymore.

The next version of A-Shield should stop all SpyCar tests. This version fails one.

[Rasheed187]

@ btman,

Thanks for the reply but currently I´m not really interested in AS, compared to other tools it´s not really that advanced, and the bad support plus vague alert windows are a bit annoying. :-X