WinPatrol WAR (formerly WinAntiRansom)

Sandboxie I don't use all the time. EAM / NVTERP and AG are resident and never had a problem with it and they run fine.

Pure Paranoia ? I don't think so, Id rather prevent then have to heal later on.

But I just was asking if WAR is a good Alternative for AG.

 

if anyone has overkill, I do lol

I personally think AG is really good. in my setup it is much quicker at catching new files then the rest of my apps.

 

I love AG, but the new AG is subscription based and thus looking for an alternative, thus thinking of WAR or something else (which has Lifetime time license) to replace it.

 

Have other had a similar problem with Winpatrol/Ruiware?

I purchased Winantiransom (3 lifetime licences) with a money back guarantee. WAR had unfortunately too many FP's to be used on the famify PCs.

I asked my money back. They didn't answer to this email. I sent another one. They finally answered and unactivated my license (WAR stopped working as it should have). This all happened in the end of November.

They however, did not give me my money back. (I had to wait for a while to see my December and January VISA logs).

I sent 6 days ago an email and asked, where my money is. No answer. The company seems to have a very low moral. (Actually, this is also seen in the hype they have on WAR.) This is very different from the one Bill Pytlovany used to have (I have had Winpatrol a LONG time).

It seems I have to contact my credit card company (VISA)

 

Bret Lowry, the founder of Ruiware, now contacted me. He apologized and promised to act ASAP.
This happened after I sent another email asking them to answer also here at Wilders
Bret may comments this later.

 

Does it still have a lot of false positives?

 

Almost four monthes, any news about WAR?

 

It is not terribly well rated for effectiveness, although it comes from the developer of WinPatrol, which I love and have used for many years

 

Any one notice the shadow mark in theme of WAR ?

 

I don't have that shadow on mine.

 

What do you mean, I thought it was very good at stopping ransomware?

 

You can try different themes of WAR, you can't miss it.

 

Tomin now I understand. I thought you were mentioning a GUI bug

 

it is pretty much another anti exe Rasheed. Not just antiransomeware as cruelsister pointed out and that is why people say it has false positives. All good antiexe's give a popup on new exe's.

 

I've already reported it to the developer for a year, but it still exist

 

Tomin

I tried all the different themes and do not see a shadow. Is it just your computer?

 

I can even see it in their homepage video: https://www.winpatrol.com/war/

 

Well, officially it's the behavior blocker (based on AI), which does the decision making whether some app is malware or not. But yes, some people are a bit skeptical about it.

 

Tomin, all I know is it is not on my computer. Maybe a screen resolution issue? I don't know

 

I stop the WinPatrol WAR (formerly WinAntiRansom) always, in order to I can start the ESET Banking and Payment protection, despite to all the ESET program is set as "allow for this Signature", but not used. Sad. I wrote to the WinPatrol Support <support@winpatrol.com>, but did not correct the problem.

 

A lot of false positives, signed or not signed, many are blocked by some unknown algorithm.show task bar icons for program promts not work.

 

WinAntiRansom Forums (Landzdown) officially closed Mar 29,2017.

Support will now be provided exclusively by email support. Send an email to support@winpatrol.com

 

never got a timely response there anyhow . Hope they keep on developing the programs , would like to use them .

 

WinPatrol WAR v 2017.4.711

https://www.winpatrol.com/mydownloads/

 

Screen resolution bug would be my guess too, as I don't experience it either.