GesWall 2.9 is here...

- What OS? Win7?

 

No I'm running XP home SP3 .

 

Installed ver. 2.9 beta and it dramatically slowed down my system running XP Pro/SP-2.
I uninstalled it about two hours later.
My system speed is back to normal.

This slowdown happens every time I install GesWall, regardless of the OS used or other applications installed.
I've read the posts here and in other forums praising GesWall and I believe them.

I "Ges" it's just not supposed to work for me !

 

As much as I say no to these programs I love to try them but after a while it just gets old too fast , they are ( sandboxie & geswall ) good programs from good companies but like anything else you grow out of them, its just me.

 

Not at all - ask trjam -- and sometimes me as well.

 

2 hours!? Give me 10 min. with some piece of software and I know if I wanna use it or not. I'm giving any software that I run or simply test a hard time right after my system is booted up (ready, set, GO NUTS!).

 

Hi raven211;

Some software hasn't lasted ten minutes on my computer, but this time with GesWall, I wanted to give it a real chance to impress.

I've install/uninstalled GesWall a number of times over the last three (or so...) years and I have never been able to avoid a system slowdown.
Yesterday, the only other security apps installed along with GesWall were Sandboxie (I ran GesWall with and without it) and Malwarebytes on-demand (no real-time scanner).
FWIW, I was also running the XP firewall.

It's easy to see how GesWall can dramatically enhance security for some, but (again) for me, the potential gain in security was not worth the substantial loss of speed and overall system responsiveness.

Same old story !

 

Hope Geswall supported for 64bit can be optimized....though IMO，generally, the loss of fluency can be ignored and after two or three fixes, we will got a stable version.(just like the serial fixes of 2.8.x)

 

Can you right click the file and "run as administrator" to install?
ellison

 

Understood - sorry to hear that, and thanks for your reply. Now that you mention it I recall that I also simply have to give some applications more time to be sure.

 

you know this my first time & last trying Geswall , Lo & Behold look what happened, but then again I had few close encounters.

 

No. Also if I'm the administrator.

 

Working well for me so far in Windows 7. Anyone know how this software compares to sandboxie. Are they pretty much the samething?

 

I decided to install Sandboxie because Geswall 2.8 was not compatible with windows 7 (BSOD on startup). Now with version 2.9 everything is running fast and stable. On my computer Sandboxie slows down the startup of Firefox by 5-6s but with Geswall there is no slowdown so I'm going to sick with Geswall for now.

 

Geswall freeware okay for me I giving the Pro 2.9 a run and see what's the deal with it. But Sandboxie was okay but they both do pretty much the same. Geswall is automatic for the browser browsing and such. Of course it gets annoying to access network shared printers, download shares and etc.. Always have to de-isolate to access the network printers if I want to print something. But still the program seems to be doing it's job.

 

yeh thats why i think the free one is perfectly able, all the chat, irc, office etc are all more of a complication than a benefit i feel, except from email of course but my emails are scanned and i am savvy enough not to open email attachments etc. the browser is plenty enough for me i think its great.
the way i use it, firefox isolated so am protected. if i want to download something i run chrome unisolated and download, to save the complication, if i download when isolated it asks me to turn of uac so i just use chrome unisolated

 

to print from your browser click on it in web browsers in Geswall and add rule.

Paste this for resource name: \Device\NamedPipe\lsass then file and allow. You will then be able to print directly from your browser.

 

is there a way i can label my downloads as trusted without having to disable uac?

 

Thanks I'll give that a try.. well now I got to to all the network PCs but I hope this works..

 

Just curious trjam, is any security lost by allowing this rule within the selected browser?

I had this same issue last year and the way I got around it was to set that resource to system under resources and in the browser, add the rule to redirect for that resource. Not sure which method is more secure.

Ice

 

ice is it because i have free that i cant label trusted things without disabling uac?

 

I am using the free version also but I'm not using uac so I have no problem labeling things as trusted. I know using uac is good security but I'm careful not to install crazy stuff on my machines. So I disabled uac. I needed some security for my browser and that is why I use GeSWall. I have used SBIE in the past and like that as well. You can try their forums and I'm sure there might be a way around that.

Ice

 

hmm, but disabling it gives you annoying notifications right?

 

Not to get off topic here but there is a way to disable the annoying notifications in Vista. Can't remember how I did it, but if you google it, I'm sure you will find it. Geswall really is a great app and will protect you while you browse. Some people use it to isolate other apps but running it along side IE or FF makes your browser bullet proof. Just remember if you download anything from your browser, run a virus/malware scan over it before you label it as trusted. Don't worry about drive by downloads because they can't do any harm to your system.

Ice

 

GesWall 2.9 Pro with Avira PE giving me ahead-ache with Fps about GesWall has a trojan in the main exe. I have the same program loaded on 7 systems the all show the same results. Prior with the Geswall 2.8 Free no issues. I've ignored and allowed.