Please note if you have an older MS Redistributable, such as 14.28 or earlier you might need to reboot after the update so the new runtime loads correctly.
Darren, As soon as BF upgrades on next restart my machine goes to a black/blank screen after entering my password. It has happened twice now after restoring a backup.
Happy New Year Wilders'! Thankfully I have the Enterprise Console so can disable auto-updates. I don't know why the update doesn't like my machine, or vice versa, In any case I didn't try my laptop. My current 'net connection is hit and miss currently, with mostly a miss. Normal download speed is 0.2 -> 0.3 Mbps, and I'm just not in a situation I can download potentially crippling updates. It may also make it difficult to troubleshoot. Great start to 2022 indeed!
yep, unfortunately it won't install on its own again, I got the update window appearing once, OS armor blocked something (a bat file and oddly enough minutes later also a powershell process trying to grab something from the Internet) and had to manually uninstall and install new version. The install of new version process isn't ideal, when I disabled OS armor and tried to auto update again it said I have the latest version which isn't true, had to do a manual thing again
An update. I thought as I have a little more time today (1st of January, 2022) that I'd try unistalling 4.9.0 first. THAT in itself resulted in the black / blank screen after logging into Windows.
My problem could have something to do with Simple Windows Hardening. It also explains why my browsers failed after upgrading.
Disabled Software Restriction Policies in Simple Windows Hardening and my nightmare went away. Problem solved!
@Krusty, Thanks for the update yes the hardening app does some restrictions that block the driver entirely. @lucd It does actually update the main engine, its just that the old client is still loaded in memory so the about screen will not reflect the new version until your machine is rebooted or the app is quit and started again. Not a lot we can do about this in 4.x series, but we have some changes coming to 5.0 that will fix that.
Hej Darren , thanks, are software changes also taking into consideration stegomalware? It cannot be stopped or hard to do so by traditional anti-malware so I am thinking perhaps BF is best at this kind of attack since it monitors outbound traffic?
Correct, in fact we built the app early on to work against these types of attacks that are getting even more common. They all need to exfiltrate, so we have a very high hit ratio on these types of attacks.
so my GF android is disconnecting often and thats why blackfog is always off could you do something to prevent that? like make it switch on at reconnection
Hi, on my galaxy a21s with android 11, it happened too that BF did not start at first internet connection, despite everything was right in the BF settings. Simply i did not see the BF to be connected with vpn key icon above. I would like to see BF to act like a firewall, data is still getting out somehow. I got december update for my other smartphone (galaxy a22 5g) . I keep an eye on free space changing. At the time while phone got the update there was 43,5 GB of free space available. After one day it dropped to 42,4GB. Despite i am behind RATtrap firewall i am loosing 100mb of data especially if i am connected to 4 g mobile connection. One day it is 42,5 GB of free space, and next time i was connected to 4 or 5 g internet connection there was a drop to 42,4 GB of free space available. I have done nothing on the phone that this data would drop in such way. Like i said i have lost 1 gb of free space. What is that data and where it will go at the next system update or when google app or any other google app get its update?? And with each day i am more convinced that Black Fog Privacy is not protecting android devices as it should. At least not protecting us from google doing bad things!! I would uninstall BF privacy, but there is no better solution right now. So, Developers of BF, start thinking!!
I am gettig illegal process execution when opening services, services.exe Parent explorer.exe, anybody else with this problem? It is blocked under execution tab
@JOHNoff Google have been making some major changes lately to try and bypass many layers within the system to allow data to flow back to their servers. We capture most things but its a game of cat and mouse to stay ahead of things like encrypted DNS etc. We have some new solutions coming out this year which I think you will enjoy. Our developers are heads down for the next major release so you will see some announcements soon. @lucd Explorer should never be a parent of services.exe which is going to be a problem. This normally indicates a hijacked system. So the bigger question is how is this happening on your system? Is the explorer parent in a valid location systemroot? It sounds very odd unless you have specifically modified your base OS.
right , it only happened once. Would it be nice BF allowed to see location of spawned illegal processes. There're certain undocumented behaviors of this spawn , eg. winit.exe > services.exe > svchost.exe > explorer.exe this is legal but rare and undocumented by MS
I've just noticed that unless I select Automatic or Off in Android's Private DNS setting I get a message that it can't connect. If I disable BF I can set Quad9 (dns.quad9.net) and it connects fine. Is this expected? Is there a work-around? Android 11. Thanks.
