Newest Kid on the Block - Shadow Defender

My trial kept breaking whenever I made or restored a ghost image so I've stopped using it.

Also if I setup a drive as slave that had SD installed windows kept finding new hardware but couldn't find drivers for ghost drives SD seems to create for each partition.

Seems my ip is then blocked from accessing their site but you can still access it through hiding your ip using pimp my ip.

Back to Returnil here.
http://www.pimpmyip.org/

 

Still the same this morning on all links Peter. I am hoping to get the latest build. Will keep trying anyway.

 

Did you check your HOSTS file or Restricted Zones in MSIE or anything else that might block the access to this website ?

 

Kennyboy, copy and paste this link http://75.126.78.35/ into the search box of this link http://www.pimpmyip.org/ and see how it goes.

 

Yea....noticed their website seems to be down over the weekend.
I am usually able to access on weekdays.

But using Franklin's method, I am able to see their web page and pleased that there is another update. version 1.0.0.95.
Should be a small update.

 

@ EA. Nothing blocked that I can see in Opera. Hosts file seems untouched from when I accessed the site before. Nothing suspicious there.

@Franklin. That link worked perfectly. Thankyou. Is this telling me something about my browser setup, or maybe something else?

Anyway, very grateful to both of you for your input.

Ken

 

Thanks Franklin,
Works for me as well.

 

Hmmnn, seems that some trialers/users may be having their ip address blacklisted as the Pimp My IP link hides it.

 

Well, I am in Asia which can be viewed as suspicious in itself.......

But so far as I know, this is the only site that it happens on.

Anyway, many thanks again.

Ken

 

This is weird.....just tried to access the website directly and was able to, not blacklisted as Franklin said. Tried this morning but cannot.

WHY ?

 

PM now, and still not able to access it directly. Very strange.

 

Interesting chinese forum site link

http://www.cnsw.org/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=75160&extra=&page=1

The threadstarter claims to be the developer of this software and he was scared stiff about our discussion here, especially the discussion about the copying of the help and instruction menu from ShadowUser which he admitted to doing on the grounds that his poor command of English language left him with no choices

 

Thanks for the link nanana1, not that I understood much but I did see that Erik's DEL C:\*.* /F /S /Q + Enter command was mentioned.

Had a bit of a chuckle at one of posters reply to the above.

 

Hi, folks: Yes, those guys do watch and are very care about that we have discussed here. The new kid has publicly admit that he has copied help file from its competitor( I assume it is powershadow) WORD to WORD. I just worry his foolish action may have constituted a potential law suit there. In the blog, several posters challenge him with topics such as (1)Microsoft's StateReady, saying his codes is just portion of that, or (2) Isarel's Reload, Korea's IZX, Bpuse, or Taiwan's EasyBack are much superior to Shadow Defender. The type and scope of debates are really an eye-opener for me. Those discussions are very likely never or perhaps seldomly permitted in Wilders. Someone even posted codes to construct a program capable of getting into/ and out shadow mode without REBOOT by using diskperf ? Very interesting blogs indeed, especially for those who have advanced knowhow of security programming.

 

Most of those programs are localized versions of Rollback-Rx/EAZ-FIX.
Shadow Defender is more similar to Returnil.

ps. strangely when I install it on my system protects every partition but not the C:

 

I did not have the latest one.
I downloaded it and it worked fine.

They gained another customer. (I'll purchase it in the next hours)

 

It has gone very quiet on Shadow Defender. I thought that for a new program in a quite vital area of software, there would be more comments/queries.
Can I assume that all is well, and the proggie is working as it should with no problems for everyone.
Would like some more feedback if anyone has anything to say, good or bad about it.
I am still with Returnil at the moment, but I love the idea of protecting multiple partitions.

Many Thanks.

Ken

 

If you are using Vista Ultimate and have BitLocker turned on, Shadow Defender will not work. At least, it failed when I tried it. This makes me question the mechanism behind Shadow Defender: is it really as reliable as it seems to be?

I almost had paid for Shadow Defender just because of the good words here. Well, fortunately, I tried it before giving the money out. Now, I have decided to try DeepFreeze 6.3 instead. It works great, and I plan to purchase it.

 

multiple part. why not Power Shadow ?

 

Sorry. Mistyped that. Should have said Multiple DRIVES!

 

I prefer multiple partitions, rather than multiple drives.
Many users with one harddisk don't even know they have a partition [C:] on their harddisk, because the partition [C:] is as big as their harddisk.
Two years back I thought that each partition letter was a physical harddisk.

Returnil protects only partition [C:], while ShadowDefender seems to protect all existing partitions, if you want this. That makes SD more interesting, even when you don't use it, you have at least the possibility.