Hi Kevlin, it is so good to know that you don't encounter any problem using SecureAPlus so far Frankly speaking, I also can't wait for the new SecureAPlus beta version to be out. Our entire team is actually very excited about it Cheers, sinlam
Baidu pc faster does not have shields or heuristics like the av do. Just a on-demand feature. Also pc faster is mostly a pc utility with many options from cleaning to tweaking to etc.. Also baidu pc faster asked after scanning to install the baidu AV along side of it. SO they do run together and will not interfere. Baid pc faster is a on-demand utility and baidu AV is full Av.
Sorry for the late reply but if I can remember correctly it was mainly an issue with the AV update. Good app though
Yeah its strange. lmao. baidu Pc faster installed the baidu av for me itself after finishing an on-demand scan, asking to install antivirus protection. I think what they are confused is for the on-demand av scanning it offers that other avs do and not the shield or proactive protection as pc faster does not have it. Its confusing though Anyway I have uninstalled the baidu pc faster and instead have toolwiz-care, PeerBlock, RUBotted, and trusteer rapport installed and running along side of secureaplus whitelist and baidu antivirus. By the way secureaplus guys may want to look a "PeerBlock" and maybe able to incorporate it or use it in secureaplus IF POSSIBLE. Although the last version of PeerBlock is from 2010 but its being updated daily and it has over 1 trillion IP and URLs in its database. Damn I like it very much and its blocking some strange and unwanted connections from accessing the net that no other apps can block or detects.
Peerblock would be a great addition to secureaplus and would give it an excellent protections. link: -http://www.peerblock.com/- a brief explanation of PeerBlock: "PeerBlock lets you control who your computer "talks to" on the Internet. By selecting appropriate lists of "known bad" computers, you can block communication with advertising or spyware oriented servers, computers monitoring your p2p activities, computers which have been "hacked", even entire countries! They can't get in to your computer, and your computer won't try to send them anything either."
Hi Behold Eck, can you share with us more about the AV update issue? So that we can improve SecureAPlus further. By the way, thank you for the compliment.
Hi taleblou, thank you for sharing with us such interesting idea. Our team will explore it further. Hope to hear more suggestions from you. Cheers, sinlam
also to incease peerblock efectivness an maybe incorporating into your program here is a site with list of thrillions more bad IPs and URL. In total with peerblock own list they came out to nearly 5,000,000,000,000 IPs and URLs in the list and still being updated. Its a wonderful program for protection. here is the extra lists: http://www.iblocklist.com/lists.php
A small team of developers should have some clear and tight development principles: let me be so blunt to propose a few The program design approach 1. Real time: With a deny execute, deny injection of new dynamic libraries and deny memory intrusion, a user only executes binaries which are explicitely allowed by the user (so no real time black list needed, you only allow known good binaries). 2. On demand/invoked by real time protection When the whitlist works, all programs to help assist the user in making a decision (or disinfecting installation) can be on-demand. With a whitelist approach the user should be assisted with the decision to add something to the whitelist: a) What is the reputation of the vendor/publisher? Check on digital signature with internal (user or central admin) configurable whitelist of publishers? b) Is it known malware? Cloud lookup with Virus total (like crystal security does now and HitmanPro offers after finding new binaries in early warning mode) c) What is the reputation of the origin (download location)? Like some firefox/chrome plug-ins, there are plenty of services which offer website/IP based blacklists using other services (e.g. webutation) Provide user with an advice, based on the outcome of these three lookup checks 3. Post allow, disinfect, rollback safetynet option Keep a list of all sysinternals "autoruns" before and after install (means after an allow by the user, SecureAplus should add its own additional autostart entry to create a pre and post install assessment and compare lists to find out what is added/changed/deleted). For admin's this would like blitzblank or regrun reanimator). The development team design principles Having limited coding resources, you have to code cleverly by (re)using what is allready available (e.g. use Sysinternals lists, create a deinstall script using blitzblank to remove the malware, add EMET when you have not yet developed your own memory protection) Having limited analysis resources, you have to re-use existing blacklists using their API's to automate the process for the user.
Hi guys, sorry for my slow response.... as I was out of town for a couple of days. I am finally back to reply to all your queries Cheers, sinlam
Hi Windows Security, good to see you again Truly appreciate your detailed development guidelines and we will definitely keep these in mind No, your proposal is not at all blunt but extremely valuable We may be a small team but we already have in place the future product roadmap for the improved version of SecureAPlus In fact, we have already started working on it. Just that from business perspectives, I can't reveal too much at this juncture. Hope you will understand. Cheers, sinlam
Hi Ashanta, Welcome to SecureAPlus Freemium Forum SecureAPlus is made up of two components: Application Whitelisting and Antivirus. Application Whitelisting component is developed by our technical team and we have put in extensive effort to ensure that it has minimal impact on the CPU and memory resources. But I must say there are still rooms for improvement. We are now working hard at it for the next improved version of SecureAPlus. We are using third party av engine, ClamAV. Frankly speaking, ClamAV can be quite heavy on the CPU and memory resources. It will take about 200MB RAM. So based on some of beta testers' feedback, we have made the installation of AV portion optional and made SecureAPlus to support as many other antivirus as possible. If you install SecureAPlus without AV, the resource usage is 0 - 1% CPU and 15 MB RAM. Good news is for the next improved version of SecureAPlus, CPU resource will no longer be a concern for the AV portion. Please watch out for our next beta program to find out more Cheers, sinlam
Hi siketa, we plan to come up with two betas: 1. Beta 1 - This will be the alpha stage whereby SecureAPlus will have the bare minimum features. It is tentatively set to be out in about two months' time. 2. Beta 2 - This will be the true beta stage whereby SecureAPlus is more or less commercially ready to be launched. This will be held around the 1st Quarter of next year. Don't worry, I will definitely keep you inform of the exact date of Beta 1 program once everything is ready Cheers, sinlam
Hi guest, as mentioned earlier, from business perspectives, I can't reveal too much at this juncture. But you may want to read through some of taleblou's suggestions which are quite close to what we have planned for, especially his post #305 Cheers, sinlam
