Yet another question by me, about some programs

Ok, One program would be 7-Zip http://www.7-zip.org/ found it one WebAttack, searching for a good way to create backup archives, and supposedly 7-zip is better then .zip format? and Script Defender http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/sdefend.htm Figured I could try this to prevent against malicous scripts running?

 

ScriptDefender

It's pretty good program. I use it with various other utils

 

Hi Comp01!


You might be interested by this thread see post 50 to 62.
You will find comments and informations about Script Defender.


Uguel

 

Yo, Uguel707, I'm puzzled as to where you are pointing us?

Thanks,
Acadia

 

from Acadia

Loooooool! You are right Acadia! I forgot to put the link!
Where was !? Was back home too late last night...still sleeping I guess!

Okay the topic was:

"OK. NOW how about ANY favorite FREEWARE program!!"

See: page 4 to 5, posts 50 to 62

And, the very link is:

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=5970;start=45

And, the whole thread is worth reading!



Uguel

 

LOL, your mind was preoccupied with jumbo pumpkin cookies and coffee (what was in that coffee!).

Acadia

 

You may be right. But let me tell you one thing.
I'm sure it's kinda mr. Perez's fault.


Everytime he's at the Wilders, he keeps teasing me and that makes me nervous...so you see, I make plenty of mistakes...

So I'd better "Shhhhhhhhhhh" for he might come and have a good laugh at my reply!!!

But thank you Acadia for letting me know!


Uguel

 

Loooooo... <cough>... A'hem!

 

TOO LATE, Uguel707, he caught ya!

Acadia

 

Ok, I'm going to download AnalogX script defender.

 

I have wormguard.
Does script defender essentially do the same thing as wormguard?


Snowbound

 

No, somewhat different (WG is more comprehensive). You should be able to use both, if you want, without any problems.

Acadia

 

I dont know, lol, I know Wormgaurd blocked scripts, but, it had heauristics to block most, where as Script Defender will just ask you if you want to allow it or not, I didnt like wormgaurd (I had about 10 false positives on it)

 

Yes, Comp01 is right in that Wormguard serves the same broad purpose as Script Defender but WG has more configureability and has a Heuristics element programmed in, in addition to (or in contrast to) being able to block all scripts of a certain type.

Hope this helps,

Dan

 

Thanks acadia, I will try it.

Yes u r right comp01. It has given me some false positives too but it has also saved my bacon a few times so i like it.

I'm looking forward to worm guard4. It is suppose to have scanning capabilities with live updates.

Snowbound

 

Thanks dan

So no point in having both?



Snowbound

 

Well, if you are happy with WG as I am then I would say I wouldn't bother with the other. If you want to consider it as an alternative than it is probably safe to have both running while experimenting, and then you can decide later

 

Remember!! If you want to uninstall ScriptDefender to FIRST turn it off, like the creator of SD tells you to. You can royally mess up your system if you uninstall SD without turning it off.

Acadia

 

Thanks guys

I'm happy with wormguard so i'll just leave it at that.

With all my security tools it is near the top of the list.



Snowbound

 

Whew! Phew!

All's well that ends well !


Uguel

 

Hmm, I'm also wondering how AnalogX's "TimeSync" program is, Since my computers clock is always off by about 5 minutes, as its the only clock in the room..