Comodo or Zone Alarm free?

does twister(behaviour blocker) protect other applications againts termination or manipulation?thanks alot,i ask cause i will love to test itespecially the hips part

 

yes PC Tools FW does have a HIPS function, its called Enhanced Security Verification, although its not all that noisy and precise of D+ is i think.

 

thanks,do you know any antivirus or firewall not hips that can protect other apps from been terminated?

 

Not that i am aware of. It's the job of the hips to do that...

Protect from termination no. Protect from manipulation, well, it depends. If it's a malicious process trying to manipulate a legitimate process, Twister's behaviour blocker may see this and block the process. But there is no certainty. If you want certainty, only classical HIPS will do that.

Process guard free btw (not a firewall though) can be used to protect from termination and modification , as well as execution protection. Like a very simplified D+. By today's standards i would call it "lite version" of classical hips.

 

cause mamutu has it,prevent manipulation of other apps

 

i will like to try the twister,defensewall and ashampoo firewall combo

 

I 've run this combination for a while. They don't present any conflicts with each other.

 

that is cool

 

is the Twister Antivirus free?

 

No, it has a 90 day free trial period. You need to use the serial key here:
http://www.filseclab.com/eng/download/downloads.htm

Normal price is 29.95 $ for lifetime license.
http://www.filseclab.com/eng/buycenter/buy.htm

Sad note: It has online activation. (You enter the serial and need internet connection to verify it).

 

thanks 3 months is alot for a trial

 

In deed. Be aware that Twister is pretty aggressive and so it generates often false positives. But if you mail their support, they fix it very quickly. I used to have about 8 FP at a time, now i have none.

Twister used to flag Ashampoo Firewall's driver as rootkit too (ASWHide), but since i sent it to them recently, it seems fixed. Also if the file is small, it has a built-in FP submission feature, where you submit easily the sample to them as false positive.

 

thank you ver much,i will try it to see if i like it,thanks again.

 

The best thing about Twister, is that you won't even notice you have an AV. It's *that* light. (Add a "CPU Time" column on your task manager and you ll see. DW will be your main CPU eater with that setup. Way more than Twister). You will notice it however, when you defragment your hard disk. Twister is scanning the files that are defragmented and slows down the process. So when you defragment, temporarily disable realtime scanning. (Right click on tray icon).

There is also a possibility that FDD under mysterious circumstances can cause random BSOD. It has happened to me from time to time and sent Filseclab the minidump. But it depends on the system i guess, since no other Twister user has reported it here.

 

the pro that was distributed for free for their clients i guess but i tell yiu it was a mess . Never will i try to put it in my computer even if they pay for

 

woooooooooo what a bad experience man

 

As i have written before too, ironically, the PRO version of AShampoo firewall is buggier than the free. It also has a worse interface in the rules section.

But it's true, that when this firewall has conflicts with other security programs, they are usually big ones. When it clashed with TF v.3, i had to use the reset button, the PC was totally unresponsive.

 

very scary but is running fine herefree version also

 

Running fine with TF v.4 too... Go figure!

Ashampoo is a firewall of the extremes. Either runs perfectly or you need to uninstall it immediately.
Fortunately, it runs fine with Twister, which is my only "stable" item in my security setup.

 

good here too (the firewall)

 

When I was installing PC Tools FW I got this message: "PC Tools FW is not compatible with Windows XP" ...

Now I am using Zone Alarm without any problems

 

does it run good with defensewall hips?do you know?

 

even using beta version of pc tools FW ive never experienced this problem.

 

me neither,does it run good with defensewall?

 

well ive run basically all of the programs mentioned in this thread with defensewall at one time, none of them seemed to have any conflicts, but my personal favorite is PC Tools Firewall, beta 5 to be exact