Best Free HIPS

Greetings tisatashar

Your concerns are well noted and logical assumptions, but consider this, HIPS is in a manner of speaking a middleman of sorts, so if a roach is signalling your system it demands a place to land, HIPS "will first STOP it" before it gets to completes it's entry on your system, only averted by the choice YOU the user determines as unknown or suspicious, and that file never gets to land, in effect, it is held in suspended animation by the HIPS untill YOU the user makes the decision to grant entry or not.

This is called front-line shielding: Unlike some AV's, it has no alternative but to be examined FIRST and held up from issuing any commands to your system up untill YOU give the OK or REFUSAL.

The concept of AV's are well-intended, but they cannot ABORT or STOP entry unless first that file is matched in it's database as a potential risk.

 

Yii.

You got more firepower there than the seventh fleet. I think you're problem will be which 'tomahawk' to unleash.

 

What do these stand for?

SSM?
DSA?

 

System Safety Monitor
Dynamic Security Agent

 

Those baddies want to get down and dirty and mess with your good machine?, then i say let's play on an uneven field, they may hide, but i will find!

 

Regardless of which you use today, the "war" isn't quite over yet. For me, HIPS and IDS are just part of the ongoing evolution. The hackers will continue to evolve, no doubt about it, and even operating systems need to do their share.

Personally, i layer (developed over time): good habits, Zone Alarm Pro, Spy Sweeper, SSM-free, CA anti-virus (free from my ISP) with backup online scanners from Kaspersky and F-Secure when i need a second opinion. Oddly, nothing has ever been caught or even quarrantined. I have more headaches from simple tracking cookies than anything else.

Another free IDS i tried was XRAY-IDS.... Anyone else see this ? Another 'no brainer' was XP Protection. And, i almost went through the whole fiasco of SNORT with an XP gui. The problem is that i had no way of testing them and really couldn't leave my system in limbo.

I'm surprised no one mentioned Windows Defender ! Now there's rock solid security. Ha !

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