Arovax Shield 2.1.95 Final!

[btman]

Version 2.1.95 Final!

-{ Quote: " Version 2.1.95 [March 5 2007]
* New: "Much faster IE cookies scan."
* Fixed: "Startup folder monitoring problems in automatic mode."
* Fixed: "Hosts file monitoring problems in automatic mode."
* Fixed: "Problems with detections Opera, if it install by means Classic Installer."

Version 2.1.90 beta [February 13 2007]
* 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."

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."
" }-

Thats everything fixed since the 2.0.75 final release.

[zopzop]

i went to their homepage and i'm still at a loss as to what exactly this program does. how effective is this program? anyone test it vs the spycar and ghostsecurity registry tests?

[duke1959]

ZopZop. It passed all the spycar tests set on Automatic, except one . It did however pass that one with Arovax Shield set on user. I'm not sure how well it would do, or ever did against the GhostSecurity Registry Test you mentioned. I sometimes use it along with Cyberhawk, and I beleive it has improved a lot this year. However I'll let what all it covers be answered by the Arovax Team via the Arovax Forum, or someone with more expertise than myself like btman who frequents this Forum.

[HAN]

Being intrigued with the description of the new version, I went over to Arovax's website to look things over. Clicking on the Support page brought a BIG surprise...

-{ Quote: "Zend Optimizer not installed

This file was encoded by the Zend Encoder / Zend SafeGuard Suite

In order to run it, please install the freely available Zend Optimizer, version 2.1.0 or later.
What is the Zend Optimizer?

The Zend Optimizer is one of the most popular PHP plugins for performance-improvement, and has been freely available since the early days of PHP 4. It improves performance by taking PHP's intermediate code through multiple Optimization Passes, which replace inefficient code patterns with efficient code blocks. The replacement code blocks perform exactly the same operations as the original code, only faster.

In addition to performance-improvement, the Zend Optimizer also enables PHP to transparently load files encoded by the Zend Encoder or Zend SafeGuard Suite.

The Zend Optimizer is a freely-available product from Zend Technologies. Zend Technologies is the company that develops the scripting engine of PHP, also known as the Zend Engine." }-

I have been surfing the web for several years and never seen anything like this on a security-based company's website. Needless to say, I won't be loading anything that "enables PHP to transparently load files encoded by the Zend Encoder or Zend SafeGuard Suite."

Arovax Shield may be an excellent product. But based on their choice to force users to use a file loading "plug-in" (my word), I'll pass... :thumbd:

[btman]

Yes I've reported it to Arovax. If I don't get a reply in the next week I'll have to PM him. They had the issue before, apparently it was fixed at one point... And I see now its back.

-{ Quote: " ghostsecurity registry tests?" }-

Link? I'll personally test it for you as long as theres not too many tests like Spycar lol.

[zopzop]

-{ Quote: "Yes I've reported it to Arovax. If I don't get a reply in the next week I'll have to PM him. They had the issue before, apparently it was fixed at one point... And I see now its back.



Link? I'll personally test it for you as long as theres not too many tests like Spycar lol." }-

here's the link btman :
http://ghostsecurity.com/registrytest/

it's only 2 tests.

[btman]

-{ Quote: "here's the link btman :
http://ghostsecurity.com/registrytest/

it's only 2 tests." }-

I'm sad to report A-Shield failed everything, which really suprised me after seeing Spycars results... I reported it to the Arovax team and hopefully an improved Arovax Shield version comes out soon.

Any other tests? Because I have higher expectations for this program and would like to see it pass lots of tests.

[zopzop]

lol that's not good :(

i also read it's supposed to stop keylogging attempts. wanna try it vs martins' keylogger and antikeylogger tests?

martin's is here :
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?26000000037599

Antikeylogger test :
http://firewallleaktester.com/aklt.htm

[btman]

Not a peep, also reported to the Arovax Team. Expect new beta's in the near future lol. Thats all I can say.

I see A-Shield automatically allowed some IE changes (From past choices), I may have to re-run those last two tests on Automatic. But I'll do them tomorrow.

[zopzop]

so it failed both those tests? dang. :(

[btman]

Like I said, I'll have to run the tests under automatic because if I have it on manual it listens to my rules and will allow changes that I have previously allowed. So it may have passed them, and it may have failed. I'll wait till Arovax tests them.

[pcalvert]

-{ Quote: "
Arovax Shield may be an excellent product. But based on their choice to force users to use a file loading "plug-in" (my word), I'll pass... :thumbd:" }-

You completely misunderstood the error message that you saw. What you saw was simply a web server problem. It had nothing to do with installing a plugin.

Phil

[HAN]

Whether it was or it wasn't a server issue (and I'm not saying that you are wrong :) ) if I read messages like that, to be on the safe side, I will always assume the worst.

[EASTER.2010]

More work is needed to sharpen this one but we have to give credit where credit is due, they are actively taking it apart and making an honest attempt to satisfy the complaints people are crowing over, and there remains much yet to improve IMO.