Defensewall 3.0 goes Gold

Excellent write up Ash.

 

Thanks Bro....

One thing i have noticed that during the execution of Rogue AV's i have saw some system slowdown and even DefenseWall HIPS got hanged.

 

Agree, great work and well written.

The other posts in your blog are good to read too.

 

Thank you bro. Its really glad to know that you guys found it nice. I have no single words to explain my happiness.

I am still waiting for Ilya to have some words with me regarding some technical glitches which i have found during my test.

 

Avinash,
Sorry about that off the cuff nickname. It just seem to fit. By the way which glitches did you find? I didn't notice in your review.

 

Hey Bro,

No Sorry needed !! You are like my brother,and brother should not say sorry.

I have found some technical glitches after publishing my review. When i tested it again with 0Minute malwares , i have found that DefenseWall start keep hanging..Even i have noticed that "Untrusted" status was not there in firefox, but it was running as untrusted...Don't know why it happened. It may not be big issue, but still i have found this problem.

 

"Ash" probably isn't the best nick name to have around Europe right now. LOL.

I imagine Ilya will be very interested in your findings. One thing I have learned about him over the past few years is that he is a perfectionist, and especially with this new version, he wants everything working perfectly.

 

DW loads the registry with tons of untrusted leftovers. Ilya says "do not clean DW stuff out of the registry." A major advantage of OA is that it does NOT create deadwood like DW does. (Worse yet, "Rollback" of DW's deadwood can be dangerous to your computer's health.)

 

kjdemuth,

Just one question. Are you sure this slow launch can be attributed to DefenseWall? I noticed you run AdblockPlus. Depending on the amount of filter rules, this will slow down launching Adblock. Simply disabling it does show any improvement on my pc's.

Try uninstalling Adblock and see if it loads much faster. It is very quick to open without this addon.

Sincerely,

Gerald

 

No, I don't think its adblock. I had removed it before in an attempt to see if that was causing the problem.

 

Another advantage:
- DW is much lighter than OA - only two processes (memory usage)
- no affecting on OS boot time

 

Number of processes is not a valid indicator. An app may have only a few processes but still use an enormous amount of system resources.

I suggest that you surf for one hour then compare DW versus OA as to total cpu usage, I/O bytes, etc. Using those those valid measures of system drag, I believe you will see that OA is lighter than DW.

 

In fact, if you have a license installed, DefenseWall checks its type. So, to get HIPS only, download and "install" this .reg file zipped: www.softsphere.com/files/force_hips.zip

 

Yes.

Just install overtop. Or use regular internal updater. Just to mention- if you have GiveAway 2.56 version, 3.0 is incompatible with its registration system.

Yes, they are totally compatible.

 

Hello.

Is the firewall version the same as the hips version? if not what is the difference?

 

Yes, that could be possible if malware generates tons of system calls when blocked. But, anyway, I'd like to take a look at the sample.

 

Binary, they are the same. The difference is that HIPS edition (not version, but edition!) do not control both Inbound and Outbound connections. You can switch it on and off with just registry keys modifications.

 

Hmm. I see very well. Thank you.

 

Great job.

 

Agree; at least on a number of machines here. The new version of OA, I have found to be a lot lighter than previous versions.

 

Runs great here as well. No hiccups as yet; and if they are to be found I'll stumble into them.

As a side note, nice article AvinashR.

 

I haven't able to save that sample because of i have reverted my VM machine today after testing thoroughly...At to my surprise no one able to by pass it.

 

Guys you are requested to read my review thoroughly..One of the user said that DW 3 is not working on Detection technology but on prompting technology, but i haven't mentioned anything such on my review. Do you agree with him ?

 

Prompting? If you mean proactive, then yes

 

Guys, can anyone help here, please?