Haute Secure

I recommend using this security, you can run it along with your current antivirus.

http://hautesecure.com/index.aspx

 

Why so?

 

is this tool still alive?

 

WOT (Web of Trust) is already available for FireFox, this looks like a similar program. They also show it available for IE.
What does it add to Opera?
I personally don't see a need for it.

 

Fine recommendation there Phenom. Some discussions on Wilders already about Haute Secure. Nice to see a 64bit version.

 

Well, Haute Secure from Curetesic is a great software: many many great hooks!

I look on my notes from January, 2008 ...

Look: with Haute Secure, you have:

C\Windows\system32\Drivers\ct.sys (kernel-mode hook; start on Boot; it is Curetesic Security Driver),
12 SSDT from ct.sys,
Autostart/ShellExecuteHooks: CtBho.dll ( BHO),
User Mode API hooks (5): APICodeHijack.PushAndRet,
IRP Hooks (hooked: afd.sys; hooking: ct.sys),
Many 'Direct reading',
IE extension modules: BHO: CtBho.dll; Toolbar: CtToolBand.dll,
Explorer and Browser Addons/ActiveX: CtAdminClass, CtBhoClass, CtHtmlHostClass,
Additional svchost.exe (thanks CtServ!),
Tray Agent of course.

That's enough!
Do you have all these pleasures?


PROROOTECT warning

 

The Haute Secure forum had activity on March 18 of this year.
I would have expected more activity with a beta release, unless there just aren't a lot of people using it at the moment.
So aparently, it's alive.

 

I got in touch with HauteSecure team, and, I was told that they're still deciding what their next move will be.

I also gave them a few suggestions, and they thanked me for that. They didn't say that the project was dead, so, let's hope it keeps alive and grows.

This is indeed a great tool.

HauteSecure does it's job well, and, more importantly, out of the box, which is great for folks who aren't that techy messing with settings. Specially, if we consider HauteSecure's beta version lacks a Help file.

I guess that the more people using it and giving feedback at their forum, will make them realize people like it (there's nothing to dislike, actually), and give them morality to keep it?

Anyway, just wanted to let you know what I was told - HauteSecure's development is on hiatus, but not dead. Just like System Of A Down.


Regards

 

Yet, isn't it light? Other apps hook less and consume more. They're addicted to resources.

 

Welcome, m00nbl00d,

Look also:

'AVZ Antiviral Toolkit': find many files from 'Haute Secure' ... look some finds on AVZ:

Suspicious objects: C\Windows\system32\Drivers\ct.sys -* ) ... Description: SUSPITION FOR ROOTKIT : Kernel-mode hook. Size in memory: 290816

Searching for user mode API hooks:
Function kernel32.dll: CreateProcessInternalW(101) intercepted, method: APICodeHijack.PushAndRet
Function kernel32.dll: LoadLibraryExW(580) intercepted, method: APICodeHijack.PushAndRet
Function ntdll.dll: ... yes, yes ... PushAndRet
Function advapi32.dll: ... ... PushAndRet
Function ws2_32.dll: ... ... Ret
Function wininet.dll: : -* ... Ret.
Function NtAllocateVirtualMemory(11) intercepted [noparse](805A76D4 / F73AB0E[/noparse] hook C\Windows\system32\Drivers\ct.sys
... ... ...
... ... ...

GMER: 12 SSDT ct.sys !

Yes, and this one: your NEW svchost.exe: Use Memory 24496 KB, Handles 258, Threads 10.


PROROOTECT 'Just look. Do not touch'.

 

Pro, maybe I'm not understanding or misunderstanding you...

...why are you posting this FUD? or please explain

 

It was not me, it was the links between Haute Secure, AVZ and GMER ...this triangle. On January, 2008.

I have only noted this behavior in my notebook.

In red, I do not like, it was RED in AVZ, all APICodeHijack.PushAndRet. And ct.sys: 'Suspition For Rootkit' in red.

Then I uninstalled Haute Secure.

For me there were too many hooks, I have not kept mentally.

I cracked and removed, sorry.


Good Night, PROROOTECT protect you ...

 

Was built into Opera,
I believe it still is.......

http://hautesecure.com/press.aspx

 

Thank you Lone Wolf.
Haute Secure isn't going to add much, if anything, to Opera in that case.

 

Haute secure is effectively dead.

http://www.truste.org/about/truste_acquires_hautesecure.php

The beta programme has now ended and support to be withdrawn in 60 days.

 

So, it seems.

And, according to this,

I wonder if they will provide a similar product?

Well, HauteSecure had great potential, and is kinda sad to see it go this way, but, life goes on...
I wonder what this will mean for Opera? I guess it's the end of their partnership?

 

same thoughts by me.

 

I'll still use HauteSecure in my family's system, though. Not to block malicious domains, of course, since that will also be killed, but to protect IE's important security settings against unauthorized modification.
I know there are other ways, but, HauteSecure does it in a very quiet manner.

I'll be contacting Iain, one of the guys behind HauteSecure, and ask if he can reveal anything about the future of the application, as in, what will exactly happen, if it will just be redesigned, etc. I hope so.

But, I dislike the rupture they made. Because, after reading that news again, and I just may have understood it wrong, I believe the protection offered by the technology behind HauteSecure, will only be available to clients, which own domains, to see if their domains are somehow posing a threat to others.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding it.

Anyway, if Iain says anything, I'll say a resume of what was told... Even if just a resume of a resume.