VoodooShield/Cyberlock

Cool, thank you... yeah, that is on my to do list. I have started working on it, and it should be fixed for the next release, which should be a week or 2.

 

Nice to meet you! Very cool, thank you, I am happy you like VS! Once you have a VS Pro license, you will have access to all of the settings... PM me email address and I will set you up with a license... it will be good for up to 10 computers, so you can install VS on your girlfriend's computer too .

Yeah, I need to get a better monitor, then I should be able to fix the scaling issues. Thank you!

 

Thank you Djigi!

It is just the way they are greyed out in the free version... I can change this too.

 

Thank you, Dan! This is so genereous! I will send you a PM.

 

I don't understand why I am seeing a lot of VS popups, earlier today, about Panda. I have had Panda on the system for months. I allowed them all.

 

ProgramData is in the protected User space the why you get so many Pop-Ups. I wonder why Panda uses ProgramData so much?

 

I don't know why, but I guess something triggered VS, when in other sessions with the Surface Book, nothing. Just reporting what I saw, FWIW.

 

nope, no proxy over here

 

Voodooshield is rather "talkative" with the HD/SSD.
More than 40 MBytes for a 7 hours session.
However, the log file is not big.
"DeveloperLog.log" 3.16MB
"DeveloperServiceLog.log" 13KB

For an unknown reason, its process went from 0.04/0.05% to 1.5/1.6% and became even more talkative.
VS was OFF (SmartMode), no webbrowser, nothing.

This is the second time it does this in 24 hours, on a clean Windows, ie. close to the initial installation.

I don't know if there is a relationship or not : I have many

Code:

[ERROR] - Not able to store the userlog

in the DeveloperLog.log

 

I am also getting a lot of the same errors in the DeveloperLog.log. I have been using SMART mode and just changed to ALWAYS ON to see if it makes any difference.

 

Yeah, that is because these executables are spawned from ProgramData (one of malware's favorite hiding spots). Now that we have VoodooAi, we can probably remove this check so that this does not happen anymore. I was just being a little too cautious . Thank you!

 

Yeah, that is what I meant to say, thank you TH!

 

Hmmm, something is blocking the communication with the VoodooAi models. I wonder if you can use Fiddler or some other utility to see what might be causing this block. Does anyone have any suggestions on what software he can use to figure this out?

 

Cool, thank you for letting me know... I will keep an eye on this, it should be pretty easy to isolate.

It might have something to do with the "Not able to store the userlog" entries. BTW these are not actually errors at all... it is actually a very simple bug in the logging that I will fix for the next version, and it does not affect anything at all. But it might help isolate the HDD usage that you mentioned.

 

Thank you Cache and stapp, please see the message above this one .

 

I'm also seeing
[ERROR] - Not able to store the userlog
This is the first instance of it occuring:

[12-30-2016 20:34:02] [ERROR] - Exception in GetSHA256b (file does not exist or access denied):
[12-30-2016 20:34:02] [ERROR] - Void UpdateCheck(Boolean): 8
[12-30-2016 20:34:29] [INFO ] - Process allowed by Disable Protection or Expired Mode: c:\windows\system32\taskmgr.exe
[12-30-2016 20:34:29] [ERROR] - Not able to store the userlog

This has been occurring ever since 12.30.2016.

 

@shmu26
As you've disabled the native and third party firewalls, is there any desktop software on your machine intercepting http/s traffic? Such as Adguard

 

Right now VS is the only thing I use on my laptop. Macrium is there in case of bad luck...

 

Ditto, I have the same setup too.

 

what version is the latest BETA? thank you

 

Not really sure. Fiddler is tricky. Maybe try Elevated Command Prompt > Tracert

try 74.125.34.46 and see where it stops.



I see a couple of connections when VoodooAi is working. The one above plus another Microsoft IP.



RE: Essential Net Tools. You can enable netstat logging and get it to play an alert sound when VS establishes a connection. Not sure that it helps much if connection fails. Logs are saved to folder in Documents directory.



I had a problem with VS connections caused by one or more entries in my HOSTS file. I didn't yet manage to isolate those entries. Suggest using the default HOSTS file for test purposes if using a modified one.

 

RE: VoodooAi & Fiddler

This screenshot shows VoodooAi failed to connect and also a successful connection.



Item 7 is a failed connection when VoodooAi window has appeared.

Items 6-19 are successful connections when VoodooAi window has appeared.

Error message:


I'm not putting this down to VoodooShield. I believe it's faulty external wiring affected by damp weather.

Maybe try a different DNS Lookup Server. Try QuicksetDNS.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/quicksetdns.html

I find that Alternate DNS is reliable although your results might be different.