HitmanPro.ALERT Support and Discussion Thread

Discussion in 'other anti-malware software' started by erikloman, May 25, 2012.

  1. Adric

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    I'm having a huge performance hit on my QNAP NAS drives when I scan files before doing a sync. The performance hit is a whopping 74% when scanning using Wifi. The problem is definitely HMPA. I had to uninstall it to get my performance back. What takes 23 mins. with HmpA installed, only takes 6 mins. without it installed. The scanning task is exactly the same under both conditions. I see this problem on all my systems where HMPA is installed (W7-32 W7-64 W81-64 W10-LTSB-64. Someone really needs to look into this problem. HMPA not activated so I can't turn anything off.

    The BSODs I reported previously related to Shadow Defender hasn't been fixed to my knowledge. For some reason Sophos thinks it's low priority. It looks like Sophos has finally fully taken over. Erik would have fixed this long ago. I wonder what answer Sophos will have on this one.
     
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  2. Stupendous Man

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    Hi Adric,
    I can imagine that for Erik, Mark and Ronny it can be relevant to know which scanner it is that you use.
     
  3. Adric

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    Syncfolders.
    I don't think it is program specific, but it may well be. NAS drive is a Toshiba P300 3TB
    and an external USB 3.0 3TB Toshiba Canvio Ready drive also connected to the NAS.
     
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  4. Stupendous Man

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    Ah, thanks, Adric.
    I thought you meant a malware scanner.
    Regarding scanning (comparing) before synchronizing, I have no issues with FreeFileSync, but then, I don't sync to NAS drives, but to an ordinary second internal drive and external USB 3.0 drives, so I can't tell if synchronizing to NAS drives would be affected.
     
  5. Adric

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    I ran another test using filever.exe against a large directory and the performance hit was 37%. So it seems HMPA is interfering in some way or another.
     
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  6. paulderdash

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    Same here with Bvckup 2, so could be the NAS factor.
     
  7. Aldon

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    Since a couple of days I have installed the WebBrowser Chromium Versie 69.0.3470.0 on a Windows 8.1 OS and suddenly It comes to my attention I don't see the usual announcement of Exploit protection HMP-Alert normally shows in the upper right corner of the screen at the moment an application has started.
    Is this because Chromium runs in its own SandBox and protects itself from Malware-exploits due to this Sandbox?

    I hope my English is well enough to understand, Because it isn't my native language.

    Thanks in advance for any reaction!
     
  8. RonnyT

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    Hi Aldon,

    If you like dutch support please contact us on support@hitmanpro.com

    Can you verify if the browser is running under a protection profile?
    Open HitmanPro.Alert GUI switch to Advanced interface (gear icon top right) click on the blue button while Chromium is running.
    Select running applications and see if it's "Protected" if not click on the process and add it to the browsers profile.

    Once you have restarted all chromium processes it should now run protected.
     
  9. pilipali

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    Updated to version 3.7.8 build 750. I noticed that Microsoft Edge does not work, loads for some time but then closes itself. Disabling safe browsing or exploit mitigations won't work. tried resetting settings, no help.
     
  10. Tinstaafl

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    This is the first mention I've seen on this thread about a build 750 release. Yet no announcement?

    Just looked on the download page for release history and see this!

    https://www.hitmanpro.com/en-us/whatsnewalert.aspx
     
  11. Victek

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    750 is a release candidate and was announced in the beta forum. See here:

    HitmanPro.Alert BETA
     
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    Yes, HMPA 3.7.8.750 was a release candidate, but today it is released as the new stable version.
    Users running the previous stable release version 3.7.6.739 are automatically upgraded to 3.7.8.750.
     
  14. Tinstaafl

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    My point was there was no official announcement of the latest release in this thread, as has been the norm prior to now.
     
  15. Stupendous Man

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    Yes, I know, and you are right.
    I suppose Erik, Mark and RonnyT forgot, or were too busy to post an announcement of the latest release in this thread.
     
  16. Tinstaafl

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    I am using the registry option to prevent automatic upgrades. So I usually just wait for a new stable release announcement, and then find a time to download and test the new version.
     
  17. Stupendous Man

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    I can understand that it is inconvenient if no announcement for the new stable release is posted in this thread.
    Perhaps Erik, Mark, or RonnyT will post the announcement later today, or tomorrow.
     
  18. RonnyT

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    Are you perhaps running Windows Defender Application Guard?
     
  19. pilipali

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    No.
     
  20. RonnyT

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    HitmanPro.Alert 3.7.8 Build 750 Released

    Changelog | Compared to build 739

    • Improved Intruder detection (Safe Browsing) on Trickbot trojan
    • Improved compatibility with Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer 11
    • Improved process startup performance of applications protected with Exploit Mitigations
    • Improved Hardware Assisted Control-Flow Integrity (HA-CFI) performance by increasing the LBR stack-pool
    • Improved Code Cave Mitigation
    • Improved Asynchronous Procedure Call (APC) Mitigation
    • Improved Java exploit mitigation profile; removed obsolete protections for Java processes
    • Improved Thumbprint technology on the CallerCheck exploit mitigation, which now allows us to whitelist e.g. a CreateProcess from the 1Password just-in-time .NET code running inside a web browser or Outlook as a plug-in
    • Fixed a crash occurring during a specific ROP exploit, e.g. during attack on CVE-2018-9958
    • Fixed issue with Microsoft Edge browser on Windows 10 Redstone 4 32-bit (x86)
    • Fixed a false positive in Chrome caused by the Dynamic Heap Spray exploit mitigation
    • Fixed VBScript God Mode false positives in Internet Explorer
    • Fixed potential BSOD caused by CryptoGuard
    • Fixed LoadLib Alert in Firefox when loading NPAPI plugin(s)
    • Fixed Windows 7 hanging on shutdown
    • Fixed WipeGuard running inside Hyper-V guest systems
    • Added list of loaded modules to the alert details of the WipeGuard and CryptoGuard modules, to help with triaging attacks originating from trusted processes
    • Added wmic.exe to Application Lockdown to block abuse in a SquiblyTwo attack; like PowerShell, MSHTA, regsvr32.exe, wmic.exe is a LOLbin – a Living of the Land binary, that can be abused by attackers
    • Added Japanese language to user interface
    Download
    https://dl.surfright.nl/hmpalert3.exe

    Known issue(s):
    • Windows Defender Application Guard fails to start Edge
    The automatic updater has been set to update all our users. You should receive it within the day, automatically.
    Let us know how this build runs on your machine(s). Thanks! :thumb:
     
  21. JEAM

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    Build 750 still not working on Vista. Same issues as before, multiple programs crashing. It didn't even create a Notification Area icon.

    Uninstalled. Keeping my work PC at build 604.
     
  22. Eebillo

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    Hello; would just like to ask why a certain program/game i have crashes whenever ran with HitmanPro.Alert installed. I'm not an IT guy at all but we do have this at our pc for online security so I've no idea how to troubleshoot; however I've tried disabling all modules and trying to run the program but it still keeps feeding this crash:

    Application Version: 5.6.3.55206
    Application Timestamp: 599ad65d
    Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
    Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.24168
    Fault Module Timestamp: 5b1aad38
    Exception Code: c0000005
    Exception Offset: 0000000000032964
    OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
    Locale ID: 1033
    Additional Information 1: 15f6
    Additional Information 2: 15f6512c97c733a716aab66823287880
    Additional Information 3: f12c
    Additional Information 4: f12c8ec93b5f92297f837ac7c6900688

    however as soon as i uninstall hitmanpro.alert and open the same program it starts working again. HitmanPro.Alert is also giving me connectivity issues via my ports with other games we have on our PC. Would running Malwarebytes alongside have something to do with it?
     
  23. Victek

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    It might help if you mentioned which program/game.
     
  24. Stupendous Man

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    As Victek said, the name of the specific program/game may be helpful to developers/ support.
    Also would the alert details be useful, or necessary.
    To get alert details, see this instruction.
    Same here, it may be useful to mention the specific games.
     
  25. RonnyT

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    Yes to the "which game" please, and you can try to add the game "exe" to the exploit mitigation "Exclusions".
    Click on the Blue button in the advanced interface -> Applications, scroll all the way to the right and click "Add Exclusion" then navigate to the game executable and add it.

    See if that makes any difference
     
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