Very Long "Welcome Screen" with HIPS Self Protection

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  1. razmichael

    razmichael Registered Member

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    My new Dell Precision m4600 (i7 quad, 16gb ram and 256 SSD) came yesterday and I have spent hours trying to figure out what was causing a problem as I slowly added my programs and application to the Windows 7 x64 OS. At a certain point the laptop would boot up to the login and then hang on the Welcome screen. At first I assumed it had hung up and after two complete restores I went through a more controlled install of the 30 windows updates, Chrome and the new Nod32 install. I discovered that the problem occurred after Nod32 was installed and the system was not really hanging but took 8 or 10 minutes to get past the welcome screen (considering with the SSD an normal full boot took less than 30 seconds without Nod32). Suspecting HIPS I turned it off and had no problem. I then ran it in interactive mode to try to manually add programs to the ruleset. After a number of still long boots, the wait was down to 6 minutes. I than turned off only the Self Protection and - back to normal sub 30 second boots.

    I've been a long time user of Nod32 (almost since the original release) and still think it by far the best anti-virus software but this was really annoying. Has anyone else seen this and any fixes? Perhaps the SSD is too fast for it!
     
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    In the advanced HIPS setup, there's an option "Log all blocked operations". Enable it for a while, reproduce the problem, disable the logging and paste here the relevant records from your HIPS log.
     
  3. razmichael

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    Done. Below is the text output from the HIP log with self protection enabled during startup. In this example the startup when from 1:53:41 to 1:59:02 with just the "Welcome" screen in Windows 7 x64 svc pack 1 and NOD32 5.0.95.0.

    Thanks

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    20/02/2012 2:00:28 PM	C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe	Get access to another application	C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET NOD32 Antivirus\egui.exe	some access blocked	SelfDefense: Protect ekrn and egui processes	Terminate/suspend another application,Modify state of another application
    20/02/2012 1:59:02 PM	C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe	Get access to another application	C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET NOD32 Antivirus\egui.exe	some access blocked	SelfDefense: Protect ekrn and egui processes	Modify state of another application
    20/02/2012 1:58:57 PM	C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe	Get access to another application	C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET NOD32 Antivirus\egui.exe	some access blocked	SelfDefense: Protect ekrn and egui processes	Modify state of another application
    20/02/2012 1:56:51 PM	C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe	Get access to another application	C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET NOD32 Antivirus\x86\ekrn.exe	some access blocked	SelfDefense: Protect ekrn and egui processes	Modify state of another application
    20/02/2012 1:56:48 PM	C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe	Get access to another application	C:\Windows\System32\winlogon.exe	some access blocked	SelfDefense: Do not allow modification of system processes	Modify state of another application
    20/02/2012 1:56:44 PM	C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe	Get access to another application	C:\Windows\System32\lsass.exe	some access blocked	SelfDefense: Do not allow modification of system processes	Modify state of another application
    20/02/2012 1:56:44 PM	C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe	Get access to another application	C:\Windows\System32\csrss.exe	some access blocked	SelfDefense: Do not allow modification of system processes	Modify state of another application
    20/02/2012 1:56:44 PM	C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe	Get access to another application	C:\Windows\System32\csrss.exe	some access blocked	SelfDefense: Do not allow modification of system processes	Modify state of another application
    20/02/2012 1:56:44 PM	C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe	Get access to another application	C:\Windows\System32\smss.exe	some access blocked	SelfDefense: Do not allow modification of system processes	Modify state of another application
    20/02/2012 1:56:44 PM	C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe	Get access to another application	C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET NOD32 Antivirus\x86\ekrn.exe	some access blocked	SelfDefense: Protect ekrn and egui processes	Terminate/suspend another application,Modify state of another application
    20/02/2012 1:56:44 PM	C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe	Get access to another application	C:\Windows\System32\winlogon.exe	some access blocked	SelfDefense: Do not allow modification of system processes	Terminate/suspend another application,Modify state of another application
    20/02/2012 1:56:44 PM	C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe	Get access to another application	C:\Windows\System32\lsass.exe	some access blocked	SelfDefense: Do not allow modification of system processes	Terminate/suspend another application,Modify state of another application
    20/02/2012 1:56:44 PM	C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe	Get access to another application	C:\Windows\System32\csrss.exe	some access blocked	SelfDefense: Do not allow modification of system processes	Terminate/suspend another application,Modify state of another application
    20/02/2012 1:56:44 PM	C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe	Get access to another application	C:\Windows\System32\csrss.exe	some access blocked	SelfDefense: Do not allow modification of system processes	Terminate/suspend another application,Modify state of another application
    20/02/2012 1:56:44 PM	C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe	Get access to another application	C:\Windows\System32\smss.exe	some access blocked	SelfDefense: Do not allow modification of system processes	Terminate/suspend another application,Modify state of another application
    20/02/2012 1:53:57 PM	C:\Windows\System32\LogonUI.exe	Get access to another application	C:\Windows\System32\winlogon.exe	some access blocked	SelfDefense: Do not allow modification of system processes	Modify state of another application
    20/02/2012 1:53:41 PM	C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe	Get access to another application	C:\Windows\System32\winlogon.exe	some access blocked	SelfDefense: Do not allow modification of system processes	Modify state of another application
    20/02/2012 1:53:41 PM	C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe	Get access to another application	C:\Windows\System32\winlogon.exe	some access blocked	SelfDefense: Do not allow modification of system processes	Modify state of another application
    20/02/2012 1:53:41 PM	C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe	Get access to another application	C:\Windows\System32\winlogon.exe	some access blocked	SelfDefense: Do not allow modification of system processes	Modify state of another application
    
     
  4. razmichael

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    Is there anything else I can provide to further this investigation? I'm not fully sure of the additional risk by keeping "self protection" disabled but I suspect I should be able to enable it.
     
  5. Marcos

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    Do you have WvCredProv.dll (Wave Credential Provider) or infql2.dll (UPEK TouchChip) present / loaded in the system ?
     
  6. razmichael

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    I'm not "with" my laptop at the moment but I'm sure the Dell Precision M4600 uses the UPEK fingerprint reader (and it has the reader).
     
  7. razmichael

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    Hi Marcos
    What next or should I just keep the 'self protection' disabled?
     
  8. Marcos

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    This will be most likely fixed by a HIPS module update. However, we're yet to find a way how to accomplish it without a negative effect on security.
     
  9. razmichael

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    Hi Marcos
    So basically I just cannot use the 'self protection' option - which I assume is also a compromise in security.
     
  10. Marcos

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    A newer HIPS module 1044P is available on pre-release servers. It should fix this issue.
     
  11. razmichael

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    Thanks Marcos. Is this module available now or do I wait for the next version release of Nod32?
     
  12. Marcos

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    It was already available when I replied here. You just need to enable pre-release updates in the update setup.
     
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    Thank you Marcos. I have upgraded and so far not seen the issue (tried 3 reboots with HIPS and Self Protection on - no slowdown).

    Much appreciated!
     
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