PG and First Defense ISR

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  1. WilliamP

    WilliamP Registered Member

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    I am the proud owner of both programs. When I created a secondary snapshot in FDISR there was 3 errors. Checking the log it was procguard.sys,pghash.dat and pguard.dat. Access denied. Does this mean that PG won't work in the secondary snapshot?
     
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  2. Peter2150

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    Hi William

    What I do whenever I copy from one snapshot to another is disable PG, remove Wormguards protection, and disable my antivirus. Then if I do anything in the other snapshot I have to reenable everything. If you do this you won't get the error's and yes PG and all your software will indeed work another snapshot.

    Pete
     
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    Thanks Pete. Do I just go into Main and unclick Protection Enabled? Or do I have to do more?
     
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    Either do it that way or right click the systray icon. But yes that is all you need to do.

    Pete
     
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    Hello,
    I also use both programs and have run into this issue too. Based on my correspondence with the developer of FirstDefense, Peter's advice is right on. Also(and this is very important): If you want to remove a snapshot, BE SURE to completely remove PG(and its remnants) before doing so. If you don't do that, you will end up with ISR structure errors and will only be able to boot into one snapshot. There is a workaround for this, but it's a pain to be avoided. The developer of FDISR is aware of this issue with PG.
    Good luck
     
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    BlueKey THANK YOU. Now I really will wait to purchase PG until this issue is resolved, who knows how much trouble you might have saved me, thanks. :)

    Acadia
     
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  7. Peter2150

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    Hmm I have removed a snapshot to test whether it was worth the time saved in imaging the disk. It wasn't. But other than my standard disabling of ProcessGuard I had no issues. I removed the snapshot, did imaging and then added back a new snapshot. It was a non event.


    Pete

    PS. Admittedly I haven't done it with the latest PG. May try it this weekend.
     
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    Peter, if you do try it with the latest PG please get back to us, I'd REALLY be interesting in knowing, thanks.

    Acadia
     
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    I will probably give it a try tonight. Once I do I'll post the results.

    Pete
     
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    I did another update this evening. This time I disabled PG . No errors. I booted into the secondary snapshot to check PG. Everything seemed fine.
     
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    Hi,
    Looks like maybe I should clarify what I said in my previous post. All I know is what happened when I had PG installed on a snapshot that I tried to delete. The snapshot deleted okay, but this also produced so-called structure errors in ISR which only allowed me to boot into one snapshot after the removal. According to what the developer told me the "culprit" was **procguard.sys**. It's my understanding that when you remove PG then the the driver is automatically removed, which should prevent any major problems.

    Also, it might be of interest to pass on what raxco told me(back in sept as I recall) -look for a major update to FDISR sometime later in the year. Should be interesting.
     
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    Fantastic! Hopefully an already unbelievable product will be getting even better (but quite frankly, I'm not sure how they could make FD-ISR any better).

    Thanks Bluekey, Peter, and William :)

    Acadia
     
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  13. Peter2150

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    Okay test complete. Note however I only use one snapshot beyond the primary.

    I the software I have that monitors something includes SpybotSD immunize(no teatimer) F-Prot AV Giant AS Spywareblaster,SpywareGuard, Zone Alarm Pro latest version, and DCS Wormguard. Note I use TDS-3 but don't have execution protection turned on.

    The test. I disabled F-PRot, disabled PG (not removed) and removed Wormguards Protection. Then I removed the FD-ISR snapshot, and defragged the drive. I then disabled FD-ISR's preboot, and imaged the drive. Then reenabled FD-ISR's preboot, built the new snapshot, defragged, and here as I type I am working in the rollback snapshot.

    No problems whatsoever.

    Note that I only use on additional snapshot. Originally I had three, but found I really didn't need them as I do external backups and disk images. Since I normally image with the rollback snapshot installed, the images are all ready bigger. Additional snapshots just make the problem worse.

    Would there be a problem if I had 3 snapshots and removed one of them. Could be, and also could be a function if one removed the 2nd one leaving 1 and three.

    Based on my experience I don't see a problem with PG and FD-ISR.

    Pete
     
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    Thanks Pete. That is good to know.
     
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