Who is using Prevx1 free and likes it.

[trjam]

Title says it all.

[Seer]

Hello.

Well, I am not using it at the moment, but recently I participated in a thread discussion which involved Prevx. Since I didn't know anything about it at that time, I was intrigued to investigate it. I liked the concept of heuristics HIPS. So, I am for now only very interested. :)

[trjam]

check your pm.

[Seer]

:D :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

[trjam]

anyone else?

[Cloudcroft]

I'm been using Prevx1 free for a while, and like it so far.

[duke1959]

I used the free version and recently received a license as a gift. I must say it runs smooth and it's two processes only use around 12MB of memory. I also like the GUI, and it's different features. I'm not sure why it didn't do well awhile back in the tests done by Gizmo, but I believe it has improved since then and I actually like it better than Cyberhawk, which did well in that test

[Old Monk]

-{ Quote: "I'm been using Prevx1 free for a while, and like it so far." }-

Yep me too. Won a licence over at CastleCops but having a problem getting the prizes at the moment :-\

Love the GUI and it is pretty quiet

[ErikAlbert]

I like it too, because it doesn't ask annoying questions, which I hestitate to answer with yes or no.

[WSFuser]

im using Prevx1 as well, but not the free version. and with my prize at CC, i will have another license.

it really a great software especially for newbies or people who hate popups (like me) :P

[Metal425]

I do,very nice interface, no annoying pop-ups.

[lodore]

i like it as well and have now got a license since some person here was so kind.
i really like the interface as well.
i dont know if it will work along side kis6.0 or to much of a over lap thou
lodore

[Cloudcroft]

trjam- :thumb:

[nixie21]

I have been using the free version for about a week now, works well with OA v2, good combo!

[lucas1985]

I really like its concept. I´m waiting for a build with lower resource usage.

[Perman]

Hi, folks: I am not a free user. I was very skeptical and often critical about its concept and approach initially. But now I am a firm believer. My three-month lic shall expire in 2 weeks, I will definitely renew it for a whole year. A top-rated program does not come to us too often and when I see it I do keep it at all costs. :) I hope you too. ;)

[lodore]

-{ Quote: "I really like its concept. I´m waiting for a build with lower resource usage." }-

to much ram or to much cpu?
lodore

[lucas1985]

The resource usage is not really high, but it´s higher than most software I use. It is more evident when Prevx does a lookup in the online database. But I really like the software and I want to use it in a upcoming build (dedicated Audio-CD ripping machine) alongside PG Free and Kerio 2.1.5

[jlo]

Hi,

Another very satisfied user here although I am on paid version.

Kind Regards

Jlo

[lodore]

bit off topic but...
once you get a license when does it start ticking?
right away or once its first actovated?
lodore

[gerardwil]

-{ Quote: "bit off topic but...
once you get a license when does it start ticking?
right away or once its first actovated?
lodore" }-

Right away ;)
That means after you registered.
Otherwise it won't ticking for the next 100 years or so.

But you can run the free version untill you get infected +32 days, than you have to register for the full version.

Gerard

[lodore]

-{ Quote: "Right away ;)
That means after you registered.
Otherwise it won't ticking for the next 100 years or so.

But you can run the free version untill you get infected +32 days, than you have to register for the full version.

Gerard" }-

so you buy the license and from that day it starts ticking?
or do you have to install the products put in license code and press actovate then it starts ticking?
lodore

[Notok]

-{ Quote: "so you buy the license and from that day it starts ticking?
or do you have to install the products put in license code and press actovate then it starts ticking?" }-It used to be that it would start counting as soon as the license key was created, but it has since been changed so that it does not start counting down until you actually put in the license code and click Activate. So if you have a current subscription that ends soon, you can wait until that one ends before activating the new one :)

[lodore]

-{ Quote: "It used to be that it would start counting as soon as the license key was created, but it has since been changed so that it does not start counting down until you actually put in the license code and click Activate. So if you have a current subscription that ends soon, you can wait until that one ends before activating the new one :)" }-

thanks notok.
basically someone won two licenses from castle cops and they gave me one.
so tgat will stay a full license untill i put and box and press actovate?
if so thats great because i can use the license on my new pc when i finaly build it
lodore

[Zimzi]

-{ Quote: "anyone else?" }-

I am not using it at the moment but I intend to, especially if trjam decide to send one of his gifts to my pm inbox. :P

[trjam]

yep, been a lot of giving of late, thanks to Prevx.;)

[nixie21]

So, is there a time limit on how long you can hold it before using it? If you won two from CC, can you use one then activate the other a year later?

[innerpeace]

-{ Quote: "I have been using the free version for about a week now, works well with OA v2, good combo!" }-
I have won licenses for both. Other that OA V2's firewall, are these not similar? Do they both have the same protection or cover the same areas? Is one stronger than the other? Thanks

[trjam]

-{ Quote: "So, is there a time limit on how long you can hold it before using it? If you won two from CC, can you use one then activate the other a year later?" }-
Or we can all do what Prevx intended it for and give the other away. Preferably to a member here. Nice things, always come back to you.

[Zimzi]

Thanks anyway.

[nixie21]

-{ Quote: "Or we can all do what Prevx intended it for and give the other away. Preferably to a member here. Nice things, always come back to you." }-

Yeah, you are right........I gave it away!

[trjam]

-{ Quote: "Thanks anyway." }-
check your inbox, best I can do.

[danny9]

-{ Quote: "Yep me too. Won a licence over at CastleCops but having a problem getting the prizes at the moment :-\

Love the GUI and it is pretty quiet" }-

Just got my liscence today, 3/28.
Actually, Prevx sent me 2. 1 for me and one to give away or install on another computer.
Nice of them to do that! 8)

[trjam]

-{ Quote: "Just got my liscence today, 3/28.
Actually, Prevx sent me 2. 1 for me and one to give away or install on another computer.
Nice of them to do that! 8)" }-
I like the giveaway part.8)

[danny9]

-{ Quote: "I really like its concept. I´m waiting for a build with lower resource usage." }-

I think the resource usuage is quite low myself. It settles down to an average of between 10 an 12k for me. Not bad at all.
SuperAntiSpyware uses about 27k
SSM uses about 10k
Even BOClean, R.I.P.?, with it's 2 processes uses about 11k.
Let's not forget KIS, about 11k which is very light in my opinion.

I'd be curious to know what you use that uses less resources then Prevx.
All for conservation you know. LOL 8)

[BrainWarp]

Just installed prevx1.Running with kis 6.0.Not much to say about it yet.Nice interface.

[lucas1985]

-{ Quote: "I'd be curious to know what you use that uses less resources then Prevx." }-
In my main rig, Jetico v1 and GeSWall (Antivir on-demand). The upcoming build must have all its resources dedicated to audio encoding, Replaygain scanning, etc. So, no slowdowns are possible.

[danny9]

-{ Quote: "In my main rig, Jetico v1 and GeSWall (Antivir on-demand). The upcoming build must have all its resources dedicated to audio encoding, Replaygain scanning, etc. So, no slowdowns are possible." }-

Ah, that explains it.
All the best to you! 8)

[lucas1985]

You´re welcome :thumb:
I will be moving all "blacklist-based" security to the router (UTM gateway), so "host-based" security will have to be "whitelist-based" or "behaviour-based".

[Huwge]

Been using Prevx for a while now. Nice little program and excellent support

[ErikAlbert]

Maybe the question should be : Who used and ditched Prevx1 and why ?

[trjam]

-{ Quote: "Maybe the question should be : Who used and ditched Prevx1 and why ?" }-
well then create your own thread.

[BrainWarp]

I just installed prevx1 and think it's a very good program.But it causes hesitation while im in on line games.It looks like if i keep the program i will have to cut it on and off defeating it's purpose.Looking for another alternative now.

[Perman]

Hi, folks: To dump Prevx1 just because of slowdown when playing on-line games? IMO, I may have given up too much for a little return. Why not to enlist a program called PGWare GameBoost to save the bacon ? ???

[BrainWarp]

Running The game In kis i can exclude the game so it does not scan it.There for no hesitation.There is no reason for a program to be scanning a game i am playing.I may use my retail avg 7.5 anti-spyware as additional help and be done with it for now.And i understand boclean will be free here soon .

And to answer your question Perman-i will dump anything that interferes with game play.But fortunely i have other programs that don't

I am very good at games and able to take Frustrations of the day out on noobs.So i don't go postal in real life;D I really think kis 6.0 is enough protection with it's proactive defense,but i was just looking at some additional help.

[mikel108]

If anyone will personally use the extra license I won from Prevx, just PM me.

[trjam]

thanks Mike, more should learn from you.;)

[mikel108]

-{ Quote: "thanks Mike, more should learn from you.;)" }-

The license went really quick. If I hear of someone that is looking to give away one, I will forward your names.

Best,
Mike



AKA : Setarcoss

[Notok]

-{ Quote: "Running The game In kis i can exclude the game so it does not scan it.There for no hesitation.There is no reason for a program to be scanning a game i am playing." }-Prevx1 wouldn't be "scanning" the game, but the TDI filter may be processing it's outbound network connections. You can put Prevx1 in Expert mode temporarily to create rules, or just disable network protection from the Advanced tab under Protection Plus (remember to click Apply and reboot for the change to take effect).

[Huwge]

-{ Quote: "Prevx1 wouldn't be "scanning" the game, but the TDI filter may be processing it's outbound network connections. You can put Prevx1 in Expert mode temporarily to create rules, or just disable network protection from the Advanced tab under Protection Plus (remember to click Apply and reboot for the change to take effect)." }-

Notok,
Can you please go into more detail as to how you exclude my online game. I get some hesitiation and would be nice to solve it.....I want to keep Prevx:)

[Notok]

Just enable Expert mode and answer any prompts with Allow making sure to place a check in the box to "Always Remember". Doing this creates personal rules. Otherwise you can go into Advanced, Protection Plus, and set Network Protection to Disabled. If there's anything there that you don't know how to do, let me know what it is and I will be more specific, but I assume everyone here knows how to do those things.

Personally when I game I disable and shutdown everything that I possibly can (security or otherwise) except for my firewall. I suppose some of the more popular MMORPG's might warrant some additional security (depending on the game and if they might have any worms), but otherwise you're not doing anything that is going to expose you to a lot of malware and games generally run better when they're not competing for system resources.

[DanHonemann]

-{ Quote: "Maybe the question should be : Who used and ditched Prevx1 and why ?" }-
I have--at least for the time being. After running a file scan (the default smart scan in ABC mode), my system froze up on me. No biggie, really--a reboot cured it--but it gave me pause. Left it active nonetheless. Then I attempted to download a file (downloader pro 2.0 from breezesys.com (http://www.breezesys.com/downloads.htm)) and got an error midway saying the directory was read-only. Shutdown Prevx1 and was able to d/l the file no problem (scanned with NOD32, AVG AS, A2 and TR and it's perfectly safe). Not sure what happened, but as I already have ZA, NOD32, and AVG AS all active on my system and have never had a problem, I don't feel pressed to keep yet another anti-malware scanner running all the time... at least not one that has given me two problems in the last two days.

Also somewhat oddly, when I pressed the manual update button (just to test it out), Prevx1 updated and then presented a msgbox announcing that since it detected malware, it would now shift to 31-days-until-license-required mode. What's odd is that no malware was actually detected or reported... I was just doing an update of Prevx1.

Finally, this thread (http://www.castlecops.com/t181210-Funny_Thing_Happened_On_The_Way_To_A_Warez_Crack_Site.html) would indicate that Prevx1 is not all that reliable in detecting malware in real-time (though a nice safeguard in preventing it from executing once it is downloaded onto your system).

So for now, I'm inclined to leave it inactive and maybe try again with the next upgrade.

Dan

[EASTER.2010]

Prevx1 founders and developers have really done their homework with this program. Although i have it and am impressed with it's strong ability to prevent malicious intrusions of any sort, i keep it in storage right now because it's that good. I would never get any work done testing malwares with this. Reminds me of the old days of AVG6 on my 98 when i made collecting samples a hobby only to have a database update auto-turned-on the schedule feature and wiped out the whole archive. I was every much as amazed as i was disappointed.

[BrainWarp]

I did like prevx1 ,but i feel that kis6 is enough pretection with it's proactive solution.Just could not get prevx1 to play nice with FEAR combat,but it worked well with all my other games.

I finally got KIS6 to play nice in games.Only in F.E.A.R combat does it have a hesatition in the first 10 secs then everything is fine.

I have my NF4 active armor firewall tightly configured.I do also use avg 7.5 anti-syware and superantispyware to do scans.

[Metal425]

I love Prevx1, and I'm currently running it now.
The only cons about it are that its uses a high amount of resources, but that doesn't really bother me because I have 1.5G of ram ;D :thumb:

[coldplay]

likes about prevx1:
no endless notifies, actually no notifies at all.
light on resource 10-15mb ram use.

dislikes about prevx1:
it donesnt have installtion location choices
it may report some registry items as malwares and crash the windows on Chinese XP system.( like A2-free )

[Notok]

-{ Quote: "dislikes about prevx1:
it donesnt have installtion location choices
it may report some registry items as malwares and crash the windows on Chinese XP system.( like A2-free )" }-Could you please write in to support by clicking the tray icon and then clicking "Talk to Support"?

[nixie21]

Nice ram usage

I am getting the 37mb for pxagent and 20mb for pxconsole

I submitted a ticket, they are not much help as of yet... THey did say however that I do not need my other security products as Prevx1 is all that is needed!

I use OA v2/ FW and nod32 with it.


*** Just heard back from them, they say it *may* be an incapability with NOD32

Anyone use this with NOD and NOT have a large ram usage?

Thanks

[DanHonemann]

-{ Quote: "
*** Just heard back from them, they say it *may* be an incapability with NOD32

Anyone use this with NOD and NOT have a large ram usage?

Thanks" }-
I tried it with NOD32 and while I didn't have problems with it taking large amounts of ram, I did incur other problems (see my post above) so maybe there is some conflict with NOD32.

Dan

[Old Monk]

-{ Quote: "I tried it with NOD32 and while I didn't have problems with it taking large amounts of ram, I did incur other problems (see my post above) so maybe there is some conflict with NOD32.

Dan" }-

No RAM problems or conflicts with NOD32 here. The two seem to co-exist very nicely on my laptop.

[SpyDie]

-{ Quote: "*** Just heard back from them, they say it *may* be an incapability with NOD32

Anyone use this with NOD and NOT have a large ram usage?

Thanks" }-

FWIW, I use NOD32 and Prevx, works fine here. Ram Usage is great at 6mb for PXAgent and 8mb for PXConsole.

I did receive a copy of Prevx from the CC contest,I received 2 keys aswell. If anyone wants my other key, feel free to PM me. <Key has now gone>

[JCorliss]

If anyone does have a license key kicking around, I most definitely would use it. Thanks in advance. :)

EDIT: Received...Many thanks to danny9.

[disinter1]

If anyone would be so kind give me a spare key, that would be cool!:o If not that's fine, thank all and good info on prevx1;D

[EASTER.2010]

-{ Quote: "FWIW, I use NOD32 and Prevx, works fine here. Ram Usage is great at 6mb for PXAgent and 8mb for PXConsole.

I did receive a copy of Prevx from the CC contest,I received 2 keys aswell. If anyone wants my other key, feel free to PM me. <Key has now gone>" }-

Hello and some very hearty greetings are in order. Great to see you posting again SpyDie :thumb:

Sincerely hope to find more of your presence in this audience again soon and more often. 8)

Is anyone experienced any real concern with Prevx as to it's depending on continuous access to it's internet web address(s) for examining for matches in Prevx community database?

[Baldrick]

Have to say that I had high hopes for Prevx1 but in tests it appears to be too much of a drain on my PC, especially when it has continuous access to it's internet web address(s) for examining for matches in Prevx community database. Shame as I liked the approach, concept and the GUI.:-\

Having to look elsewhere to fulfill my requirement; candidates at the moment are PRSC or OA v2 (when I can get hold of the upcoming RC).;)

[Old Monk]

-{ Quote: "If anyone would be so kind give me a spare key, that would be cool!:o If not that's fine, thank all and good info on prevx1;D" }-

Hi

Do you still need a key ? If you do, enable pm's ;)

[Old Monk]

-{ Quote: "Have to say that I had high hopes for Prevx1 but in tests it appears to be too much of a drain on my PC, especially when it has continuous access to it's internet web address(s) for examining for matches in Prevx community database. Shame as I liked the approach, concept and the GUI.:-\

Having to look elsewhere to fulfill my requirement; candidates at the moment are PRSC or OA v2 (when I can get hold of the upcoming RC).;)" }-

Seems odd how different members seem to get quite differing resource usage with Prevx

I've it run alongside numerous OA beta versions and neither 'drain' much resources and seem to run well together.

I'm sure you'll really like the OA finished article but I plan running the two together for as long as they co-exist nicely.

[disinter1]

Ok I will try to enable pm's...Ok I think I got it:)

[EASTER.2010]

-{ Quote: "Have to say that I had high hopes for Prevx1 but in tests it appears to be too much of a drain on my PC, especially when it has continuous access to it's internet web address(s) for examining for matches in Prevx community database. Shame as I liked the approach, concept and the GUI.:-\

Having to look elsewhere to fulfill my requirement; candidates at the moment are PRSC or OA v2 (when I can get hold of the upcoming RC).;)" }-

The reason i just had to drop it. Theres plenty enough network activity that needs filtered as-is and i can't live with constant dependability of Prev1 to have to tether to a website. And besides, and lately, websites are becoming targeted more numerously and knocked completely off-air more often then not in these most recent of reports lately, which seem to be making for grave concern over such attacks. I find the reasoning of offering auto-manual download's via the origin of the community database as well as mirrors of much more safe security in the event of the possiblity of much more concentrated attacks directed to servers outside the loop.

[Notok]

-{ Quote: "And besides, and lately, websites are becoming targeted more numerously and knocked completely off-air more often then not in these most recent of reports lately, which seem to be making for grave concern over such attacks" }-We've already had numerous attacks. We've taken every precaution to ensure the community database stays online at all times. Do remember that we are an anti-malware company, fully aware of today's threat landscape as our malware analysts research and combat it every day, not just a behavior blocker vendor that's just making simple hashes of files for user convenience. If someone is still wary, they can also set it to query on unknown files. Of course there is also some offline support, which is continually being enhanced. It would also kill and remove anything found in memory if something was found, keep in mind that it does have a memory scanner (similar to how BOClean scans memory).

-{ Quote: "Seems odd how different members seem to get quite differing resource usage with Prevx" }-Anyone that sees RAM usage above 10~15MB really should write in to support. Out of hundreds of thousands of users I've only seen a few people on the forum mention this, and I'm not aware of anyone actually helping to track down the issue. Until we can recreate the issue, we won't be able to fix it. If you include VMs and multi-boot systems, I've got Prevx1 installed about 15 times, each with completely different sets of software, and the highest I'm seeing is about 12MB.

[disinter1]

Thanks old monk, Prevx is a good product!8)

[simmikie]

-{ Quote: "We've already had numerous attacks. We've taken every precaution to ensure the community database stays online at all times. Do remember that we are an anti-malware company, fully aware of today's threat landscape as our malware analysts research and combat it every day, not just a behavior blocker vendor that's just making simple hashes of files for user convenience. If someone is still wary, they can also set it to query on unknown files. Of course there is also some offline support, which is continually being enhanced. It would also kill and remove anything found in memory if something was found, keep in mind that it does have a memory scanner (similar to how BOClean scans memory).

Anyone that sees RAM usage above 10~15MB really should write in to support. Out of hundreds of thousands of users I've only seen a few people on the forum mention this, and I'm not aware of anyone actually helping to track down the issue. Until we can recreate the issue, we won't be able to fix it. If you include VMs and multi-boot systems, I've got Prevx1 installed about 15 times, each with completely different sets of software, and the highest I'm seeing is about 12MB." }-


are we talking physical memory or virtual memory? and truthfully i don't know which effects actual system resources the most.

if i look at physical memory at this moment using PE not TM:

Physical Memory/Working Set usage of pxconsole.exe is 13.7 mb

Virtual Memory/Private Bytes for pxconsole is 23.7mb

Physical Memory/Working Set for PXAgent.exe is 1.6mb

Virtual Memory/Working set for PXAgent.exe is 50.9mb

again i don't know what value is the significant resource impactor, nor do i know what value others are reporting.

i have refrained from putting in a support ticket myself as others have reported Prevx is simply trying to sluff it off on something else, so i am attempting to avoid any unpleasant exchanges.

i would like to know which value is the benchmark for measuring resource usage.


Mike

[Longboard]

Memory usage in Process explorer: attached

[EASTER.2010]

-{ Quote: "We've already had numerous attacks. We've taken every precaution to ensure the community database stays online at all times. Do remember that we are an anti-malware company, fully aware of today's threat landscape as our malware analysts research and combat it every day, not just a behavior blocker vendor that's just making simple hashes of files for user convenience. If someone is still wary, they can also set it to query on unknown files. Of course there is also some offline support, which is continually being enhanced. It would also kill and remove anything found in memory if something was found, keep in mind that it does have a memory scanner (similar to how BOClean scans memory)." }-

Thanks Notok for that explaination. I accept this practice to date is been nothing short of mostly a complete success but allow me to scratch your head for a moment concerning skeptics, not critics, just skeptics. Is there ever been any room for consideration in the Prevx1 camp that might could accommadate those potential (skeptics) customers to finally come over to Prevx1 if offered a choice let's say to have the program fit with an identification database like so many other programs as well as the current method of online id's?

[Notok]

You cache everything you look up, so that wouldn't change. If you set it to prompt you to allow any unknowns, the worst that would happen is that you'd get a prompt for a new file until the internet connection returned. There is also some offline support. Beyond that, there are things in the works, but it's too early to really comment on.

[EASTER.2010]

-{ Quote: "You cache everything you look up, so that wouldn't change. If you set it to prompt you to allow any unknowns, the worst that would happen is that you'd get a prompt for a new file until the internet connection returned. There is also some offline support. Beyond that, there are things in the works, but it's too early to really comment on." }-

Fair enough, again my thanks.