Introducing, The New Prevx Edge.

I agree but I can say that I have reinstalled many times and now I have a 3 User License in which I have only 3 pc's to manage,I always have to contact support to remove the old that I can install the new which they do without issue but it feels that I'm pestering them, I'm sure there is a better way to manage this Issue!

TH

 

I agree, its a major issue


Draco

 

What f/p's? As a more regular user of Edge, I haven't personally encountered 'numerous' f/p's. Frankly, I've had more false alarms from my resident AV so far than from Edge.

Edit: And those AV f/p's are result of me using higher than normal heuristics.

 

If you look at post 3420: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1445252&postcount=3420 I outline some instructions on how to reset your license/remove a computer, but we aren't pestered by your requests!

 

Yes I have done that but now I cannot makes any changes myself anymore because I did it so many times and there is some kind of limit! I have to contact support to remove old so that I can install the new on a clean reinstall on the same PC. It is a Issue with most users here only like you said we do try allot of different products and sometimes it messes our systems and we do a clean install.

Question: If I make an image with Prevx Edge installed and activated would that solve the problem?

 

Ah ok In that case, feel free to send me your license if you need it reset or just use the support inbox

 

U d0 have a p0int lordpake...

 

Yes that is what I do and support has always done it without a problem

Question: If I make an image with Prevx Edge installed and activated would that solve the problem?

 

Yes, I believe that will work. It does depend on what kind of image/how it actually images, but I think that would work (always worth trying anyway )

 

I will and let you know!

 

A quick note to anyone perusing our blog - the newest post: http://www.prevx.com/blog/120/MBR-rootkit-changes-itself-and-strikes-again.html refers to protection released later this week, but if you're using the beta, you already have this additional scanning/cleanup/protection active

 

Will the new release have fewer FPs?

I'm glad Prevx at least doesn't give their users a problem when they re-format or switch computers.

 

Yes, this release fixes the MBR FPs we were having in a previous beta on the agent side and we're going through all of the FP reports from the last month as we speak to try and track down what caused them

 

It happened about the time you cranked your hueristics up for Conficker it seems.

 

I still don't get this... with the MAC adress I only mean the physical adress being the real unique online-identity to every system, with the exception of spoofing and changing packets. If it's gone that far we've come a long way in the process. Please tell me if I've missed something in what I think is facts... I'm only here to learn new things.

 

I'm no expert on MAC addresses, but as far as I know, you can change it at will and there isn't a way to actually identify the original address once changed. I may be wrong with this, but from what I've heard from a few different sources, MAC addresses are not reliable for software licensing.

 

MAC adress, or the physical adress, is called just that - the "physical" adress, because it's attached to the network device of a PC. It literally can't be changed. However, it CAN be spoofed - say in order to hack someones network - and by spoofing it change the packets that are sent so that the router, or whatever is used, thinks the packets are valid and will let them through, but the MAC adress will always remain the same, even for that PC.

When you've come that far in a hacking process, and that's the only case I know of "spoofing" a MAC adress, you really wanna hack that location, cause it takes time. The real physical adress, which is unique, can never be "changed".

 

It would seem that the real issue here is protection of Prevx's licensing versus the user's ease of use. In the interest of parsing the two, how probable is it that any meaningful percentage of the paid user base would a) actually spoof/hack their MAC address for the purpose of a Prevx license and/or b) actually be interested/sophisticated enough to find out how to spoof/hack their MAC address...?

Assuming that the percentage of likely paid users is suitably small (i.e. the potential revenue loss would be suitably small), then would it not be reasonable to make a judgment on the side of licensing on the basis of something as simple as the MAC address...?...or perhaps a hash composed of MAC, HD, or other hardware item address/serial number...Thus, simplifying the use of Prevx on one "machine" (i.e. hardware "set" so to speak) rather than attempting to monitor on a more sophisticated level that only results in a relatively small percentage of the paid user base actually being stopped from illegal use but, results in all users having potential reinstall or multiple OS issues......just some thoughts....

galileo

 

It works very well using an Image on a clean Disk and no problems as Prevx 3.0 stays activated

TH

 

Yes Triple, that WILL work. Have restored at least 3 times using TrueImage and upon boot up, everything was just as it was before. NO hiccups!

EDIT: OOPS, ya beat me to it.

 

Wow that was fast implementing my request for the infections cleaned link!

 

We take all suggestions very seriously

 

thats a good thing to hear

 

my suggestion is release the new version before my trial expire this thursday.

 

Why is the button "View Threats" always initiate a new scan instead of showing me the threats it found?