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ako
August 28th, 2009, 03:18 PM
I tested WT with several exploit pages. It did good job stopping all living exploits.

Image after 3 exploits:
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/5106/wehntrust.jpg

Seems an interesting tool.
Thankful
August 28th, 2009, 03:47 PM
Are you running version 1.2? There seems to still be an outstanding issue with
Wehntrust listed here: http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/24315
Whether this is a major problem, I don't know.
Also see: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=236236
ako
August 28th, 2009, 04:37 PM
-{ Quote: "Are you running version 1.2? There seems to still be an outstanding issue with
Wehntrust listed here: http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/24315
Whether this is a major problem, I don't know." }-

It is the latest one found on the website.
Kees1958
August 30th, 2009, 01:01 AM
-{ Quote: "I tested WT with several exploit pages. It did good job stopping all living exploits.

Image after 3 exploits:
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/5106/wehntrust.jpg

Seems an interesting tool." }-

It mimics some of the benefits of Vista (Address Space Layout Randomisation), on XP machines. Combined with Comodo Memory FireWall you should have a good protection against all sorts of overflow attacks.

Be awre that WehnTrust can cause system hangups on XP SP3, so I am surprised it still works on your test rig (what OS are you using?)

Regards
0strodamus
August 30th, 2009, 02:23 AM
Another thing to be aware of if you haven't already noticed is that WehnTrust will create a subfolder under either %SystemRoot% or %SystemRoot%\system32 (I forget which one) called RANDCACHE. It then fills this folder with a copy of every executable you run, so if you have a smaller partition with Windows on it and a larger one with all of your applications and data, you may find yourself running low on free space.
ako
August 30th, 2009, 04:28 AM
-{ Quote: "It mimics some of the benefits of Vista (Address Space Layout Randomisation), on XP machines. Combined with Comodo Memory FireWall you should have a good protection against all sorts of overflow attacks.

Be awre that WehnTrust can cause system hangups on XP SP3, so I am surprised it still works on your test rig (what OS are you using?)

Regards" }-

XP Sp2.