A guide to TDS and the DiamondCS family

Re:A guide to what works with TDS3 & the DCS family.

Hi E2P9, I am not familiar with WB so I can't add any knowledge on that.
When I first ran TDS3 on this pc in XP Pro I had problems with the autostart, never could figure out whether it was an application, an XP system or some sort of timing problem or a combination of all three. Since starting TDS manually I have had no problems.

 

Re:A guide to what works with TDS3 & the DCS family.

Hey . Mickey . Don't let the pychciatrist fool ya. Just because your paranoid doesn't mean there isn't someone trying to get you . Watch your back.

I'm just starting and totally unfamiliar with the controls Hope I have TD3 active and running . Perhaps someone could direct me to a more helpfull forum or manual for beginner user . I even have to go do an update Im sure .
Just thought I drop in and check out a forum real quick .

I have been active on Ad-aware forum for a couple weeks and the format looks very similiar which will be helpfull .

XP-HOME Pentium 266, 256 ram 2 primary drives and 2 logical

running NAV System works in C: NAV firewall in D: and all other toys in the other logical partitions

Ad-aware 6 , Ad-watch , TDS-3 , Spyblaster . So far so good

 

Re:A guide to what works with TDS3 & the DCS family.

Greetings Dr. Jeckel

Welcome to the Forum!

I noticed you had registered both on the DCS forums as well as here. If you have not yet registered a copy of TDS, I believe this is the forum to post in, if you have registered your TDS feel free to roam in either, although there are some things that are generally discussed only in the DCS forums, such as scripting within TDS.

Either way, don't hesitate to post any questions, however "simple" they might appear to be.

Regards,

Dan

 

Re:A guide to what works with TDS3 & the DCS family.

Thanks Dan , I have been looking around a little and discovered a couple minor downloads that I needed . Prior to these last downloaded files I was getting an error when trying to update. Now -already updated transfer aborted . Does that sound rite.

 

Re:A guide to what works with TDS3 & the DCS family.

Yes, you are only allowed to update once/day so that is a natural response if you had updated earlier . I just realized I had'nt updated today so after doing so I found this is the current radius details

20:28:52 [Radius] Loading Radius Advanced Scanning Systems ... <R3 Engine, DCS Labs>
20:29:05 [Radius] ? Radius Advanced Specialist Extensions on standby for 13 trojan families
20:29:05 [Radius] ? Systems Initialised [26149 references - 8615 primaries/7157 traces/10377 variants/other]
20:29:06 [Radius] Radius Systems loaded. <Databases updated 01-07-2003>
20:29:06 [Radius Update] Update complete.

 

Re:A guide to what works with TDS3 & the DCS family.

my #s do not look like that

23:15:12 [Init] - 23:15:28 [Init]

the first mention of [Radius Update] states- Data-base already up-to-date transfer aborted

 

Re:A guide to what works with TDS3 & the DCS family.

can you post these to have them looked at

 

Re:A guide to what works with TDS3 & the DCS family.

I'm not sure what you mean by posting

If you want to verify that your radius db is the same version/stats then you can put your cursor within the main TDS console window (where the scrolling log appears) and press your keyboard <Page Up> button until you see the database stats. They are always shown (scrolling across the console window) whenever you launch TDS so that is another option.

Hope this helps,

Dan

 

Re:A guide to what works with TDS3 & the DCS family.

After a problem yesterday "False positive?" in the TDS3 Private forum. Gavin posted this:

 

Re:A guide to what works with TDS3 & the DCS family.

Hi,

You now have full forum access, and should see the TDS Private and SS3 forums


Best regards,
DiamondCS Support

Where are private forums?

 

Re:A guide to what works with TDS3 & the DCS family.

www.diamondcs.com.au/forum
login and surf to the TDS Private part.

 

Re:A guide to what works with TDS3 & the DCS family.

I go to Wilder's Home page and select Forums and I see no mention of private forums . Am I missing something?

 

Re:A guide to what works with TDS3 & the DCS family.

Yes, Only the public forums show on Wilders, the DCS private forums are hosted on the DCS domain (See Jooskes post) with link throughs to these public forums from the DCS site.
The DCS forums also have a couple of other non-private forums such as "General" which are DCS related.

HTH Pilli

 

Re:A guide to what works with TDS3 & the DCS family.

yup what he said man that cigreit looks so good im going threw withdrawls

 

Re:A guide to what works with TDS3 & the DCS family.

It would seriously mess up this thread (and my life) if i would post all the different systems and its software on which i have tested TDS on. [glow=yellow,2,300]Never had any conflicts.[/glow] I better STFU now .

 

Re:A guide to what works with TDS3 & the DCS family.

No conflicts here to speak of except in XP, I find it better to start TDS manually as I have so much stuff starting automatically and this sometimes causes a timing clash which I believe is caused by my back up Power Supply software which does not have XP certified drivers.

 

Re:A guide to what works with TDS3 & the DCS family.

Hello

Sorry to butt in but by advertising all security software is it not like a huge advertisemnet to these "hacking people" saving them time on getting into your P.C? or am i being paranoid?

 

Re:A guide to what works with TDS3 & the DCS family.

Hi Old_Sock, IMHO most crackers or script kiddies can find millions of poorly secured & badly maintained computers on the Intenet, so those that care about their on line security are probably the last to be attacked
How else can we share our experinces of security software for the benefit of the whole world wide community & those seeking to improve their own computer security?

 

Re:A guide to what works with TDS3 & the DCS family.

The memory manager Cacheman 5.50 seems to work well with TDS3 - at least in Win 2K.

 

Re:A guide to what works with TDS3 & the DCS family.

Hi Guys,

I am the latest noob to register. I am reading my way through the forums with interest but where I do get confused is all the Abbrieviations e.g. TDS3 and DCS I must have missed the info somewhere but what do they stand for lol.

For your interest my PC consists of:-

Athlon XP3200+ Processor
ASUS A7N8X Delux Motherboard (nForce2 Chipset)
1024mb of RAM - PC3500 DDR433 Corsair (2 x 500mb)
Hercules Radeon ATI 9800 PRO 128MB
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum 2 soundcard
2 x 120Gb Hard Drives both Western Digital
Logitech Cordless Keyboard and Mouse (Optical)
Creative Soundblaster 6.1 Speakers
DVD/RW AND CD/RW (why I don't know)

Is that it?

In respect of protection:-

Norton AntiVirus 2003
ZoneAlarm Pro (licenced)
Ad-Aware 6.0
SpyBot Search and Destroy
Pest Patrol

Yesterday I loaded up SpyWareBlaster.

Despite the above having no apparent conflicts I have not escaped collecting Trojans and other such wanted problems. Norton does away with most but at times I am vulnerable if I disable ZoneAlarm or Norton when installing a game and in one case I have to diasble my Firewall in ZoneAlarm just to play a game. "PlanetSide."

The hardware problems I have had seem to be linked to my nForce2 Chipset not liking my ATI Drivers and Creative Drivers.

Can anyone suggest what else I should have on my PC now in the way of protection? I feel pretty relieved to have found SpyWareBlaster I can tell you but some of you guys have so much protection how do you ever get to play games or run other programmes lol. Better to be safe than sorry I suppose.

 

Re:A guide to what works with TDS3 & the DCS family.

Hi Cyborg & welcome Nice PC = Personal Computer

TDS = Trojan Defence Suite

DCS = DiamondCS The Australian developers of TDS3, WG3 = Worm Guard 3,
PE = Port Explorer, PG = Process Guard, CS = CryptoSuite

These are the DCS's commercial products all of which have trial offerings - So try before you buy.

DCS also produces a range of Freeware utilities which you can find here www.diamondcs.com.au

If you read through this site you will find many recommendations by users for all manner of security related software.

Paul Wilders and many others here are convinced that, nowadays, the only satisfactory approach to PC security is a layered defence, this may have some overlap but is probably the most effective approach.

As you are collecting Trojan's I suggest you download TDS3 and do a full system scan using the latest radius.tds Anti-Trojan database. http://tds.diamondcs.com.au/ look down the page for the latest radius file inormation, once TDS is installed put the new radius file in the main TDS3 folder.

In the configuration select all options except for Scan for clients & edit servers and run a full scan - This will take some time but should find any real Trojans on your system.

Read, try & be safe - Pilli

 

Re:A guide to what works with TDS3 & the DCS family.

Mobile unit- w/Linksys router, WinXP Home SP1 2002, 1.19 GHz, 256MB RAM, HJT, SS&D, SpywareBlaster, TDS, TweakAll, jv16, Firefox browser, MailwasherPro, Kerio, Avast, & Orien's Enhancer for photo editing. No problems here. Knock on wood.