Introducing, The New Prevx Edge.

This is in the plans, but not the highest priority currently. It wouldn't be Edge USB, but CSI USB (as realtime protection requires the installation of drivers which goes against the USB mantra )

 

We've fixed the FP - shows you that we don't trust anyone until we've verified they're legitimate

 

Yes, the new beta has self protection which will be much more compatible with other security products We're still going through every security product to test it (hence the beta status ) but it should work alongside them with little complaint.

 

There is no change in CPU usage when increasing the heuristics - all of the complex calculations take place on the server so we save you some CPU %

 

I can't divulge them just yet but we have a number of new features which will be rolled out (semi-slowly) over the next few months to existing users

 

Don't tell me joe, I want it to be surprise.

Some people might not know, but your malware center has a lot of information. Shows the analysis involved each day.
http://www.prevx.com/malwarecenter.asp

Just today, ten pages filled with data.

 

Thanks, any idea how Drive Sentry Anywhere manages that? It seems to load each time the stick is inserted & appears to check files online much as Prevx.

 

Its technically easy to do, and checking online doesn't require a driver, but protecting the system requires installation of a driver. I know some AVs do it from USB sticks but if the point of running from a USB stick is to leave the host system untouched, installing a driver isn't exactly a good approach

Installing a driver, creating registry keys, etc. blurs the line from an actual USB scanner and a program which just installed from a USB stick.

 

I allready asked but im not gonna read all pages to find it, where can i find the self protection feature?

 

Is there some form of self protection available on Windows 7 x64? I know that prevx.exe will start itself up after a few second if you shut down the process

 

Because of PatchGuard, we can't have the normal self protection as we do in the 32bit version. Microsoft has recently released some system functionality which can let an antivirus vendor integrate into it, but we have not started integrating this as it is only available on Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008.

So, we disable the self protection feature completely in the GUI for x64, however, there are still some internal self protection features in Edge inherently - it will automatically recover if you try and kill one of its processes but this isn't the same as our normal self protection.

 

Hello

It seems that occasionally(?) Prevx Edge does some sort of background scanning (Service CSI SCANNER). In my case some programs slow down when this happens. Can we stop this kind of scanning?

 

Edge has a scheduled scan which runs once per day - you can disable it in the options of Edge. I'd imagine that is what you're experiencing (with the CSIScanner service jumping up in CPU usage for a minute or so?)

 

Why is the self-protection in 3.0.1.9 currently set to "Minimum" when it says "Medium" is standard? Is it because this feature is still under testing, or because Edge has sensed that I've other security software (with self-protection as well)?

 

If you didn't have self protection enabled in the previous versions, it will default to Minimum after upgrading. If you did have it enabled and it went back to minimum, it probably detected an incompatibility before it reinstalled the new driver. You could try bumping it up - but save your work first as it "could" cause a crash if you are using multiple other security products.

 

On my test machine I have ESS, BOClean, SAS & Prevx Edge in real time and I have no crashes! And set to the Max.

XP Pro SP3

TH

 

Version 3.0.1.10 automatically installed and apparently running well here. Made a change to the Self Protection settings; Minimum > Medium, and will monitor what happens especially as I have KIS 2009 with Self Defence enabled.

After change in setting Edge initiated a Protective Scan...as expected.

 

I reported the AntiVir detection as a false positive. I bought a new computer so sorry I didn't send. Now I have the "can't activate on more than 1 PC" problem. How do you fix this?

 

Could you PM me your license key?

 

I PMed it. Thanks.

 

Sometimes 1 minute or so but last time at least 5 minutes. The number of KB read/write was average 1000 Kb/s for some minutes.

I just disabled it.

 

Theres a new version ppl: 3.0.1.12, changelog please?

 

You'll have to bear with him - Joes lost his Comcast link... :-(

 

Some internal optimizations and reorganization of how malwares are showed in the GUI

 

Interestingly enough this is the first version of Edge that has not automatically updated. In fact after reading GES/PORs post I check the system tray and found NO Edge icon.

Started it up manually and in was still at v3.0.1.10. Checked for updates and was advised there was a new one and said yest to an update...but very strange that it did not update automatically. Has the appraoch or policy on this changed