ZeroVulnerabilityLabs ExploitShield

Is anyone running BullGuard IS with ZE sucessfully? I would like to try this combo but don't want to be like the pioneers; they got arrows in their back.

 

ZeroVulnLabs:

Any updates on the uninstaller bug fix?

How is development going? any good news?

-cheers,
feandur

 

I've been in the creative mood lately, and figured I would do a few design concepts for ExploitShield.

I didn't modify your program in any way, these are just some creations/concepts I made with PaintShop Pro x5 and Serif DrawPlus x5. I took a screenshot of the program, edited out the old icons, created my own and then inserted/replaced with my own designs. Tell me what you think.

Original Desktop Icon (Before):



Concept Desktop Icon (After):


Original Interface (Before):


Concept Interface (After):


It retains the same look, but just slightly modified.

 

Very nice. Good Job RADEON0101.

 

Not my tastes, but good job indeed

 

Good job RADEON0101

definitely like the color addition over black & white ! ....maybe for when it comes out of beta ?

-cheers,
feandur

 

Thanks guys, I appreciate the kind words.

This is just for fun anyways, I doubt any of this will be used.

 

Such an good effort deserves a sound evaluation: Old (black & white) versus New (green shield).

Why new is better?
The color green is one of the most calming colours. Especially the darker green is associated with stability and safety. The green used looks like british racing green (adding some coolness), the icon represents a shield for the obvious reason (protection). The white of Z stands for purity, cleanness and innovation.

The ZVL website uses the pseudo shield, which makes the look of the website kind of two hearted, bland design. Either choose to be really different, or stick to old associations, not somewhere in between old (shields & blue text on website) and new (dominant black & white). Your green/shield design is simple and more in allignement with traditional security symbols. The current ZVL website uses also blue as a colour for no obvious reason. Your green shield adds a second colour to thier identity, which would bring the webdesign in-line (congruent) with the icon/symbolism design, so .... you are in the advantage

Why old is better?
As stated, your design wins from the current half hearted design, but the system tray icon is different.

The old system tray icon's main impression is a big white Z on a solid black tile, the white border around the black tile, makes it look whether is has back light illumination. This design, makes it really stand out (and its colour less design does match every windows skin used and any icon of other security application in the system tray).

The use of white (Z and border), makes sure only the positive associations of black come to mind, being: strong and powerfull. The usage of white adds hope and innovation, to the picture. The combo using only black and white adds cleanness and simplicity to the overal impression.

This is exactly what ZVL claims to be: strong and innovative security which is set and forget (clean and simple). So it stands out and due to black & white colourless design it can be used as an extra layer on any other security setup (does not interfere with any other security 'colour'): this is a really good design because it visualises the market claim of ZVL

Round up
Taste is personal, but I would choose for either your icon and design or change their current website using the very good identity elements of the system tray icon, in all scenario's I would dump/ditch the Z in a shield of the old design.


Regards Kees

 

you continue to impress me Kees1958 -

intuitive review....and well said

-cheers,
feandur

 

First, I would like to thank you for taking the time and writing out a review...very well written my friend

I really do appreciate your views on my design, it means a lot.

Plus, I agree with everything else that you mentioned

 

Black and white suits with many other colors. I guess that's why ZeroVulLabs chose it. The current design is also simple...there's nothing fancy or gimmicky but imo, uninteresting.

On the other side, the dark green used by RADEON0101 adds a touch of life. However, green doesn't go well with as many colors and may not suit everyone's taste.

I can't speak for everyone but my take is that the newer design will probably go better with home users compared to enterprise/corporate users.

 

Looks like exploitshield is coming into the green zone.

 

Wow, nice design RADEON and nice writeup Kees!!

Not sure what we'll do in the future but I like the futuristic look of the green shield, although as Kees said the black and white is very stylish and KISS approach which we like a lot.

 

I installed this last night and this morning had issues with gmail - it would load but I couldn't read any emails it would just say 'loading'. I really didn't have time to play around with the settings to see if that was the issue so I uninstalled it and gmail was fine.

Is there a setting that would have caused that??

 

Thanks, much appreciated

 

Thank you very much, that means a lot...I appreciate it.

 

Maybe due to a conflict with your other security software. What else are you using?

 

Any latest news on why Comodo Firewall and ExploitShield don't play nice with each other?

I still have yet to figure the problem out myself, was hoping ZeroVulnerabilityLabs might shed a little light on this.

Since it has been awhile, I'm in hopes that a potential fix might be on the rise.

 

We opened a support ticket a while back but haven't heard anything back from them.

It seems Comodo has some aggressive browser behaviour blocks which are blocking the ES library from loading correctly within the browser. We have performed some tests adding ES process and libraries to the Comodo behavior exclusions but the same thing continues to happen. It seems as if the Comodo exclusions don't work correctly or don't apply to their entire behavior blocks. I would have thought that adding the ES library to their internal white-list would be easy as its only 1 library and its digitally signed, but it seems I'm wrong.

I think the best thing to do now is for Comodo users who want to use ES to head over to Comodo forum and post a new thread asking them to allow ES to load. It all boils down to this: Comodo has a false positive and they don't seem willing to fix it.

 

I made a little visit to the Comodo Forums and wrote this, hopefully what I said will get thing's moving along *Keeping Fingers Crossed*

Anyways, this is what I said (I'm tbb0101 at Comodo Forums, in case you're wondering).

To Comodo Team

I would like to run ExploitShield along side Comodo Firewall, but I am unable to do so with the existing incompatibilities with the two.

There are many users across the web, including myself who want to rely on both protections from Comodo and ExploitShield.

So, what I would like to see, is more frequent information and comments from you, on what's being done with these incompatibilities.

The user base for ExploitShield is growing, as well as users who want to run both protections together.

Any news and or other information on what is being done would be greatly appreciated.

I'm sure many other users would like to know the same

Your information and comments about this is definitely valued

 

I can attest to these statement being true.

I certainly hope they resolve this matter by the time there's a final build of ES out. Because I want to use it and Comodo 5 certainly isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

 

It wasn't just the gmail there were some other irregularities plus the program was running but the only way I could tell that was through task manager as the exploitshield icon in the taskbar had disappeared.

After uninstalling I reinstalled it and haven't had those issues this time. I use Voodoo Shield and forgot to put it in training during the 1st install. Maybe that caused the issue.

Very light I don't even know its there now. I'd like to see it block something.

 

Yeah, that'll definitely do it. Glad you figured it out.

You can always try it in a VM against exploit kit URLs from either malwaredomainlist.com or urlquery.net. Just make sure they are exploits and not EXE downloads. For testing I recommend a VM with XP SP3, Acrobat 9 and Java 6 or Java 7 before update 9. You can get older version of apps from oldapps.com.

 

Very keen to try ES, but worried I won't be able to uninstall it?

-can you give me some piece of mind ZeroVulnLabs? Is it OK to try now?

-cheers,
feandur

 

Yes, it is safe to try. If there's anything left after uninstall you can easily get rid of it with an uninstall cleaner or delete it manually after a reboot:
%ProgramFiles%\ZeroVulnerabilityLabs
HKLM\SOFTWARE\ZeroVulnerabilityLabs