Free Security Suite from Hurricanesoft

Anyone heard of or tried Hurricanesoft Internet Security 2006 Free Edition EN 3.1.3? Here's the download link,

http://www.hurricane-soft.com/download/his2006_en_fe_setup.exe

The company is new.

http://www.hurricane-soft.com/Company-Profile/

thanatos

 

I don't see any system requirements. Is it Vista compatible?

 

What‘s this?

 

Obviously it's a screen shot of the app.

 

Looks pretty shaky to me......I wouldn't touch it with a 10 ft. pole.

 

Seems rubish. There was a thread about their free FW if i m not mistaken.( Just remembering from GUI).

 

It's not compatible with Vista. I have seen it also at Softpedia and zdnet.

This one? So the FW of Hurricanesoft is also buggy. The GUI is ok though; simple and clean like ccsito said. In another thread the FW was said to be bad. Blackcat said it failed all of the tests at PC Flank and Shields UP at grc.

Thanks everyone for commenting. I sent the installer of the suite to F-Secure Labs for analysis. It was found to be clean. I wonder if the AV and AS integrated in the suite can actually detect malware. Nonetheless, I hope the next release will be good and stable.

Regards,
thanatos

 

yes, the same one.

 

From what I read on the website, it is an application monitor type polling hips. Might be useful to those who like that kind of thing. You certainly can't beat the price unless it craps your machine.

SourMilk out

 

Hmmm. Not even with an 11 foot pole.

 

Someone who tried it out posted a comment that the program took a large amount of system resources to run. For a program with a very small download, you wonder what it is REALLY doing?

 

It really looks like some play thing. It can't be doing any detection as it looks from here

 

see its "awards" http://www.hurricane-soft.com/Awards/
and then read this: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/08/beware_of_fivestar_vaporware.html

 

Doesn't look very nice... Hideous GUI!

 

I have it running in a virtual machine. It seems only to list processes. Maybe it is more capable, but so far it is not doing much...

It claims to protect against hackers, trojans and viruses. I doesn't detect the eicar file, though, for what that is worth.

Without testing further I would say that this program is not an AV product in the normal sense of the term. Its documentation is so limited that it doesn't even claim to do anything specific.

UPDATE: This is a bizzare program. It holds up any processes you start (such as Internet Explorer, the command line, netstat etc.) until you manually release them from the 'jail'. Why you would want this feature I don't know. By default 'block everything' is off, although it seems to stop the processes anyway. Maybe jail is not the same as block... Either way, not an essential tool in your anti-malware toolkit, I would think.

 

Just as I thought. Really bad stuff

 

Why not stop discussing this kind of program?

 

Hmmm. Softpedia was one, now that's a shocker.
Just goes to show ya, don't believe everything you read.

 

Thanks IBK, best laugh i had all day!

 

Hurricanesoft pulled out the Firewall and Security Suite. They are now selling "Hurricanesoft Work Sheet - Orders".

thanatos

 

There's definately something shaky about it. Even their website is bland and unconvincing.

Great IBK. I laughed.

 

The firewall looks exactly as Norton products

 

Perhaps, but is it as effective?

 

Something tells me that it is not as effective as norton's one