Question about SafeOnline protection

Joe,
Can you tell me if SafeOnline alone would protect against the following:
- drive-by malware installation
- buffer-overflow in browser itself or any browser-related component (Flash, Adobe, Java, etc.)
- iframe or similar form manipulation or rudimentary XSS-like attacks
- spoofing/phishing

Thanks as always!

 

Bump.

 

Sorry about that!

Spoofing/phishing websites are detected/blocked within SafeOnline, but SafeOnline alone has currently not been designed to protect against drivebys although some aspects of its protection do inadvertently prevent certain drivebys. We are planning to add exploit prevention within SafeOnline but this is currently out of the scope of it as it is covered by the antimalware components (and automatically-heightened heuristics when untrusted files come from the browser).

Essentially, SafeOnline protects the browser from the OS while Prevx 3.0 protects the OS from the browser (and elsewhere )

 

No worries, you're a busy man.
Joe, can you elaborate on what exactly would SafeOnline block against or protects? I'm not sure if I understand "browser protection from OS" technique; is it like SandboxIE, where browser is sandboxed and no changes are written to disk?
Thanks as always!

 

Joe,
I had a trial license and used it for a day but then cleared up some issues w/hardware and installed W7. So I didn't get to play with it much.
I'm wondering about the same questions as dlimanov.
I didn't understand much from your response to his questions.
IE-does it protect from iframes and xss?
Thanks.
Hugger

 

It is the inverse of Sandboxie - if malware exists on your PC, it is prevented from reading/tampering with the browser. It is still theoretically possible for malware to enter from the browser, but it would have to get past the other layers of Prevx protection first

SafeOnline is not designed to protect against iframe/xss exploits - an in-depth third party review of SafeOnline can be read here: http://pxnow.prevx.com/zeroL/Immunity.pdf

 

Joe,
I read this review previously, but it looks like they are concentrating on Prevx + SafeOnline working together; my question is about SafeOnline alone. I understand the reverse SandboxIE idea, but what about protecting system from the browser part? I would like to know what exactly can SafeOnline protect the system against if it's installed alone, with no Prevx (or any other on-access scanner).
Thanks much!

 

It protects you by blocking malicious websites.

 

Habakuck is correct - it will block malicious/phishing websites, but you can't install SafeOnline completely by itself: it is dependent on the rest of Prevx 3.0, which is why we've combined both technologies.

However, if malware does enter your PC while using SafeOnline, it will be unable to steal data/modify your transactions, so, for banking trojans/identity-stealing-trojans/etc. the existence of malware is irrelevant (but the rest of the Prevx "suite" steps in when there is other forms of malware on the PC so you can still be protected/cleaned from those )