Future Changes to Prevx

Nice trick, I've to use it more often when I'll be older

 

Hello

Great job for Prevx ! Light and powerful

Questions :

1) Is it possible to add a functionality that when we want "report this detection as false positive" we can select more one file at a time ?

http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/3161/prevx.png

2) Can you make available to the general public (on your site for example) a means to have trial-serials to test the program for 30 days for example ?

Thank you.

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Currently no, but if you have that many FPs, feel free to send a scan log to report@prevxresearch.com by clicking Tools > Save Scan Results and we'll analyze it from there

We provide this on-demand to people requesting it in our customer support inbox or here on Wilders. A bit of clarification as to the reason behind it can be found here: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1520819&postcount=7

Let me know if you have any other suggestions or questions!

 

OK.

Thank you !

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Right click a undetected executable or dll or w/e and click report to prevx .

 

Don't shoot me (it could be a stupid suggestion) but could a "self test" function be implemented?

I was reading the thread about Prevx stopping working and, when you become aware of it, needing reinstall.

Even if it's rare..............i'd like to be able to verify that the software is working before being infected.

Best Regards

 

This might be my error because I just loaded V3 after using V2 for a year or so, but the box that used to appear when the op sys was executing any application or exe was very helpful when working with potentially problem applications. Doesn't seem to exist in 3. Can it be turned on?

Thanks

 

Hello,
We have removed this functionality because of the low number of users using it and the levels of confusion produced from it for a majority of our non-technical users. Prevx 3.0 now automates the decision process behind-the-scenes which allows us to provide a very strong level of protection without the impediments on usability.

Please let us know if you have any further questions!

 

If its not a large piece of code (as I am thrilled at how small the V3 app is) perhaps it can be added back in a future version with an 'off' default. I thought it was both very helpful and a big differentiator. JMHO

 

Prevx 4.0, which is still a few months away, will have a realtime behavior status reporting feature. It won't be exactly like how Prevx 2.0 was but it will be more comprehensive so that you can get down to the technical details very easily if wanted.

We're still in the early phases of designing the additional functionality but it should be a good replacement for the Prevx 2.0 reporting without adding significant weight/code into the product

 

Any news on this? At lease be able to hold down Ctrl>Click each one and delete?

 

A "Remove All" button will be added into the next update Thanks for the suggestion!

 

Great Thanks!

 

How do current users receive updates? I have seen posts about a version later than mine (3.0.1.65) -are these automatically updated for subscribers?

 

You will receive all product updates automatically (unless you've elected not to under the configuration settings).

3.0.1.65 is the current public live version - with any higher version numbers you've seen recently being those of BETA and Release candidate versions which are undergoing testing prior to public release.

Hope that helps

 

Two suggestions:

Change the colour of the "eye" or around the eye during a background scan to let people know prevx is scanning in the background or at least an option to set this behaviour.
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"Pause" button for scans.

 

Early bootup option

 

Ability to scan not on boot when 400 other different things load, but during specific time of the day, CPU load (< then 50%, for example) or when screen saver is active.

 

hello.. i am new to "prevx"..

one thing that i would like is a way to just plain disable prevx's realtime-protection, temporarily, where it will stay disabled, until i choose to re-enable it.. the way it is now, you can disable prevx's realtime-protection for 10 minutes, and then prevx re-enables itself.. i want to be able to disable it until i decide to re-enable it rather than having it automatically re-enable itself after 10 minutes..

it is kind of a pain in the butt to have to deal with the 10-minute time-limit when disabling prevx's realtime-protection, to where i usually don't even bother to disable it.. (there is one situation where i have to disable prevx's realtime-protection, in order to run one of the programs that i use, which used a temp-file that is flagged by prevx.. i can't use the program unless i disable prevx's realtime-protection)..

i also would like it if prevx had an option for turning off its "self protection".. the way it is now, there are 3 levels of self-protection, for prevx, but none of them are "disable self-protection".. considering that you can't disable prevx's realtime-protection, except for a 10 minute interval, that leaves me with the option of killing prevx's processes, but, when i do that, they are automatically restarted.. i guess that that is due to prevx's "self-protection"..

prevx's having self-protection might be a good thing for some people, but i don't need it.. i use a program ("system safety monitor" ) that protects prevx, and other programs, from being terminated.. if a program has its own self-protection, i disable it, when possible..

also, i think there should be a "scan" button, along with the other buttons, on the left side of prevx's GUI, to open the panel with the scanning-options.. the way that it is now, you have to go to "tools", then "advanced scan"..

 

Glad to have you on board!

You can click the dropdown arrow to select longer durations for being disabled, or, you can click Remove Protection which will fully remove it until you want to re-enable it (it is the last entry in the list if you do not have maximum self protection enabled).

If you are running into a specific application which is legitimate, could you please click Tools > Save Scan Results and send them to report@prevxresearch.com so that we can diagnose the issue closer? Alternately, when you are prompted with a warning, you can click "Trust Always" or right click on the file entry within the Prevx 3.0 GUI and select "Report as a false positive" which will automatically mark the file as trusted locally. Or, you can use the Settings > Detection Overrides tool to change the override options and change the default behavior of Prevx.

There isn't an option to disable Prevx's self protection entirely, however, after setting it to Minimum and rebooting your PC, you will be able to terminate both Prevx processes. You may want to use the command:

taskkill /f /im prevx.exe

which will terminate both quickly (if you are using the Professional version of Windows).

The self protection within Prevx has been designed to work carefully within Prevx itself so we strongly recommend using Prevx to protect itself rather than using another program to duplicate functionality built into Prevx.

The default Deep Scan is the recommended scan, which can be triggered by clicking Scan My PC (or clicking View Threats and then Scan My PC).

Please let me know if you have any further questions!

 

My biggest problem with Prevx on my laptop is that when I am on the road, it often nags that its not connected to the net. I wish there was a way to optionally turn off that msg.

 

Possibility to disable SafeOnline for certain browsers.

 

Recently, I had cain and able removed from the database (reported as false positives). Couldn't we leave such applications IN the database but colour them orange as they MIGHT be dangerous.

Same thing with Remote control tools (don't know IF they are detected) like Remote administrator (Radmin), VNC, Ultra VNC. What does PrevX do with those? If I have installed them and I know of them, fine...but what if someone did this behind my back. I would like to know for sure.

Please comment on this as I personally find this very important!

 

We try and identify the intent of the program being used - i.e. if UltraVNC/Radmin/LogMeIn/VNC are installed covertly, we will detect them but if they are clearly visible to the user we tend to allow them.

In the past, we have had a "Caution" determination but it led to a lot of confusion - many users who encountered them were not very tech savvy and they would write in asking: "What should I do?!" which is why we've moved to a black/white approach for most software.

Technically, almost all software can be used maliciously so there has to be some cutoff point

 

I would like to see why a file/process is beeing flaged as malicious. Some kind of process monitor/history would be great. So that i can see why PrevX thinks that the file is malicious.
Of course this only make sense for heuristic detections.
A short link in the warning PopUp to the process monitor log for that file would be great.