Prevx RC 3.0.4.183

How do I uninstall? It has been a long time since I last did it.

I am still showing Prevx Edge in START > Programs. Prevx Edge is no more.

Joe, is there an uninstall tool or uninstall using CMD ? I don't want go through Add/Remove via Control Panel.

 

Microsoft Zune Theme. I don't have any visual styles installed. I will try the default and see what happens and post back with my findings.

 

Hi Joe, there seems to be an incompatibility issue with Keyscrambler. The issue arises whenever I type anything into my browser

Example:

%z666ettms3ehxb[7=(0jl8v6iv'gyfvp

(With Keyscrambler on I am unable to talk)

 

Now I am losing my marbles. Last time I restarted FF3 it appeared in the right place, vertically, ie, above address bar if it where not too far over to the right of the panel. I then minimised the panel and when i maximised it again it ad dropped back to where it was in Threedog's screenshot...weird one that.

Hop e that this helps?

 

Ok. Tried with XP default theme, Classic theme, Royale theme. All with Firefox running the default theme. Same positioning for the Prevx bar.

 

Add/Remove via the Control Panel is the default way (and all that it does is run our uninstall command) but you can run:

"c:\program files\prevx\prevx.exe" /prop UNINSTALL=AUTO

from CMD or Start - Run and that will let you uninstall Prevx without using the Control Panel. It may be worth mentioning that we've added back the "Uninstall Prevx" link in the start menu in v3.0.4.183 which should make everyone's life a bit easier when uninstalling/reinstalling (the link will not be retroactively added to existing installs yet but we may end up adding this to existing users on upgrade anyway to reduce the support complaints about being unable to uninstall).

Let me know if you have any problems with this!

 

Good idea adding back the "Uninstall Prevx" option. Not that I would ever use it.

 

Prevx uses a similar technology to KeyScrambler which could potentially cause problems although we haven't seen them in testing.

Could you let me know if you're typing into a Prevx Secured website at the time of it not working or does it happen on any website? (the Prevx tab will be green when typing into a secured website and blue when in an insecured website).

Thanks!

 

Went back to my Zune theme and tried Firefox with some assorted themes. Prevx Bar still sitting in Search box on every one of them.

 

Great I'm glad it's back!

 

Thanks for the information Threedog and Baldrick (and we aren't trying to cause you to loose your marbles! ). I'll work on reproducing this locally and if I can't, I'll forward it onto QA who should be able to reproduce it easier.

On a default install of XP SP3 here I don't experience the problems but your issues being reproducible will be a big help to get this fixed swiftly

 

It happens on any given website.

 

Thanks for the information - we'll definitely see what we can do to get around this automatically with minimal interference on the user's experience I'll let you know or update the thread as soon as we have further information.

 

Get some rest, Joe. This is only hour 2 of the beta being out and I am off work for the next 3 days so I may find more work for ya.

 

Joe, I have started a session in dial up, so if following your instructions necessitates a reboot I will save the uninstall for later. I don't like wasting money, considering I pay enough for dial up as it is.

 

The uninstall/reinstall does not require a reboot so you should be fine

 

Uninstalled. Thanks.

I will save the reinstall for later....I have other things to do, now.

 

I never noticed this behavior before on 3.0 but with the Beta if you mouse over an exe it will throw up a scan on it. Just went thru my download folder and it worked on every exe file.

 

This is related to the new protection engine - we've made significant changes throughout the protection engine to improve compatibility with some troublesome AVs. The side effect is that Prevx will sometimes scan extra files when browsing through folders of files in Explorer (on XP in particular) but it does provide significantly improved reliability and shouldn't be too much of a drag when browsing through the system.

 

No noticed drag here with it at all. I like the feature.

 

Nice alert window! Joe are the list updated daily?

 

It is based on an automated system, updated in realtime as we receive reports (from a number of organizations, our own harvesting, and a heuristic-based analysis system for checking new URLs and scoring them with levels of suspicious characteristics, similar to our antimalware techniques).

On a similar note, if anyone finds any false positives in the URL detection, let me know directly - we have the agent side implementation complete for reporting "Ignore" requests but have yet to hook up the centralized reporting/manual verification of submitted FP URLs so for now I will manually forward them to the research team if any arise

 

I just noticed that sometimes when opening a new program I get an "Invalid Handle" error. I hit OK then open it again and Prevx does a scan and then it runs. I never had this before the beta so I am suspecting that Prevx is blocking the initial opening and then allowing the secondary one. Once the program has been scanned by Prevx there is no further invalid handle errors.

 

There seems to be problem with Prevx new browser security.

When you open it (click on Prevx icon in browser) and then press Win key + D, then it hides taskbar.

Win XP SP3 all updates installed


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There seems to be problem with Prevx positioning on FF 3.5.3 (Skin: Gradient iCool 1.0.9)

 

Yup, very cool and very reassuring!