Shadow Defender alternative ?

[The Shadow]

Originally Posted by Wendi

SD, I presume that other than being a satisfied user you are not associated with shadowdefender.com?

That's correct, no affiliation whatsoever - that's just my 'handle'.

[Ashanta]

Originally Posted by pegr

Scheduled file commits rather than a file exclusion list. I think the theory is that this leaves no holes in the virtual system that could potentially be exploited by malware, while still providing a convenient way of automatically saving content.

You said that commits scheduled is better that a file exclusion list

With SD, how do you handle with firefox favorites which are daily updated ?

[pegr]

Originally Posted by Ashanta

You said that commits scheduled is better that a file exclusion list

This was a response to kjdemuth who was asking for clarification of a statement by Coldmoon regarding the approach taken by Returnil. It does not apply to Shadow Defender which does not support scheduled commits.

Originally Posted by Ashanta

With SD, how do you handle with firefox favorites which are daily updated?

For normal day-to-day operation, I only keep my system and recovery partitions in Shadow Mode. My Firefox profile is held on a separate data partition which is not normally virtualized; but when engaging in high risk activities, I also temporarily put the data partition into Shadow Mode as well. This is not inconvenient to do as non-system partitions can enter and exit Shadow Mode on the fly without rebooting.