4.0 beta release date?

Alright! Seems like I got my memory wrong there! It was 1/10th memory usage.

Now guys, what else can we confirm/speculate in? Let's raise the hype a little bit.

 

Sandboxing and Virtualisation

 

What about release date ?
All that talk for months abot this and that in new 4.0 is not cool

Cmon Prevx , ship that beta already

 

Sandboxing for non-whitelisted files in the cloud would be legendary. That being said, both sandboxing and virtual mode are speculations and haven't been hinted by any official staff.

 

Hi everybody,

I'd like to test Prevx 4 to keep my computer safe from malwares.

Who can tell me how can I test this new beta version ? Any links ?


Thanks !

 

That sounds safe. Also interesting is how they can increase offline protection with such a small footprint - everything new that enters the PC during offline is sandboxed and/or virtualized until online again and cloudcontrolled? If so I could skip Antivir. But can such things be done with that small a footprint? I have no idea I am just an nonsavvy amateur.

Best Regards

 

You cannot, it is not released yet, and release date is also not announced. I think an estimated guess from Prevx was Q1 2011.

 

Being a 500KB app what do you think? I think that most of the upgrades to V4 will be in the Cloud on the severs with half the size of the program and 1/10 of the already low memory usage! Like I said I'm just drooling to give it a go in 2011!

TH

 

We'll see

 

I know that version 4 will provide an easier ground for translation, but I'm wondering how will that be actually done? Is the user who may have the option to translate, and keep the translation for him/herself, or this translation would be sent to Prevx and it would then be applied to Prevx 4?

I ask, because, whenever Prevx 4 becomes close to what it will be (all the text done), it would be nice to put hands on the translation, and have it translated when it first comes out.

 

We're still holding all translations internally. We'll possibly have a feature for the user to configure a local translation file but only for translation testing. The GUI itself is much easier to work with for foreign languages but we still want to hold all translations centrally for quality assurance purposes

 

If a sandboxing feature is present, I hope my previous suggestion of allowing the sandbox to be stored at a custom location (eg. RAMDisk), or at least give the option to have the sandbox in RAM (ie. so no contents are stored on the hard disk).

 

The "sandbox" functionality is not like a conventional sandbox (i.e. Sandboxie). I'll elaborate more when we get closer to a beta but it is primarily used for malware analysis instead of actually using the software that's being "sandboxed"

 

So the files will be executed in a virtual enviroment to check their behavior?.

 

What would be the difference with for example the way ESET handles advanced heuristics (except for ESET checks it in the safe environment with heuristics and Prevx by behavior)?

 

Let me guess a few things:
- File checksum algorithm (PX5) might be further optimized to calculate checksum in minimum time using minimum resources.
- In-The-Wild (ITW) malware signatures might be cached on user system to protect in offline mode.
- Sandbox like Norman sandbox or behavior analysis/blocker like in Panda Cloud Antivirus might be there for better analysis of suspicious files (via cloud) on end user system.
- Autorun blocker/USB vaccine might be there.
- List of suspicious files might be saved in offline mode for later analysis when system connects with internet.
- Further optimizations and better classification/cleaning of threats will be on Prevx/Webroot servers.

 

Prevx,

Any plan to build a standalone program ?

I mean, what's happening if we get infected by malware which close our Internet connection?

By the way, if you need help for translation I can give you a hand for french and maybe spanish, let me know.

 

Prevx 4 will provide offline protection to some extent. We'll see in a month or three when the official beta goes live how it works out!

 

back to Prevx, Dr Webs real time protection is lacking.

 

Excellent new, Shadek !

 

some thing good is coming up soon for sure

 

How about support MacOS X platform anyway ?

 

The Mac OS X version is around the corner, but Prevx don't like to talk about it though

 

Plz Add New Features like a Kaspersky Application Control or H.I.P.S

 

That would ruin the warm and clean feelings by just having Prevx silently running in the background. Sandboxing would be a lot better - and that's something we'll see in a very basic form in Prevx 4.