System Safety Monitor 1.9.5 closed beta (testers needed)

[DivineGlitch]

Hello,

Since SSM has become "too popular" to make a new unreliable release (even though it is still beta), I want to have some small number of volunteers (anybody is welcome) to test a new upcoming release. This release works fine on my PC, however because of some major internal reorganizations and kernel-mode driver, I expect it to be kind of "problematic".

So, if you are interested in participating in "pre-beta-testing", you are welcome.

download SSM at:
http://mc.webm.ru/5/ssmunof.rar

For *NT (2k, XP) only!

If you will experience any problems or a blue screen crashes (especially those, in which "mcnahook.sys" will be mentioned), submit a crashdump (the last *.dmp file from c:\windows\minidump\) to DivineGlitch@mail.ru or just post your report here.

Thanks!

Best regards,
Max Burmistrov



***NOTE
This is almost final release. However, because of detected security flaws, the official release most likely will be suspended, until these security flaws (device/physicalmemory and ZwSetSystemInformation) will be fixed.
Shipped driver version is "checked build".
It's a good idea to uninstall/disable SvcGuard for SSM and old SSM itself and make a system restore checkpoint.

(the copy of this message can be found at http://maxcomputing.narod.ru/unofbeta.html)

[o-o]

1.
Sounds quite interesting that SSM goes kernel mode.

2.
SSM is a powerful system firewall like Process Guard. Therefore, I wonder whether it is appropriate to treat it as "privacy software".

[dannyboy 950]

I thought I would look at this and participate but this is all I find when following the download link.

[Divine Glitch]

It is said that there are service works on hosting provider's servers, which will be finished at 8:30 (14.08.04) (GMT +3). Now link should work ;)

BTW Currently detected problems:
1) activating first time "app activity watching" via pop-up menu causes AccessViolation error
2) SSM fails to handle user's shutdown/logoff and close (when started not-as-a-service) and when it closed forcefully (during shutdown) it may hang.

[Divine Glitch]

update (new release available at previous address):
1) Known bugs fixed.
2) Added Device/PhysicalMemory protection
3) Added ZwSetSystemInformation-for-loading-driver handling
4) Improved support for 2k (and 2k without SP3)

Tests for 2) and 3) available at http://mc.webm.ru/5/testpack.rar (with sourcecodes)


Please, pay special attention to any bugchecks (blue screens), even if there will be no "mcnahook.sys" mentioned

[Divine Glitch]

A new update available at previous location
There were some attempts to solve different hang issues

Still some problems (compatibility with other software) were left unfixed (waiting for vendors to reply)

[Divine Glitch]

A new update available at previous location
Some problems fixed (especially for Win2k users) and few minor enhancements in UI made

Still some problems (compatibility with other software) were left unfixed (waiting for vendors to reply)