HitmanPro.Alert BETA

Running CTP 4. Trying to run Media Player Classic - Home Cinema version 1.7.11. When I just run the MPC-HC.exe it's working. But whenever I try to open a video on my computer MPC-HC freezes. I have to exclude MPC-HC from exploit protection. Then it works.

Can anyone confirm this issue?

 

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/hitmanpro-alert-beta.394398/page-4#post-2681814

 

I should've read that! Thanks. I already did that solution but now I know it's not an issue but by design. Perhaps devs should automatically whitelist MPC-HC? Many non-tech customers wouldn't know that HMPA breaks MPC-HC.

 

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Jeez. Now I feel even dumber.

 

Can reproduce this reliably.

 

You overlooked a couple of previous posts.
No worries.

 

Do you use OpenDNS, perhaps?
If so, that may be the cause.
There were several reports of OpenDNS blocking download of the HMPA installer or the HMP(A) scanner.

 

IVPN which does utilizes customized OpenVPN client and its own DNS - but all that is disabled; running with default Windows networking during install.

I will check the DNS - perhaps I did leave them in.

Sure enough OpenDNS was still in there because I put it in there when I set a static IP.

 

Yes... I reset networking to automatically get DNS via ISP instead of static setting of OpenDNS.

 

Could you try Google Public DNS, to see if that works?
If so, your DNS via ISP may be problematic as well, for some reason.
If Google Public DNS doesn't help either, something else may be blocking the scan.

 

Try to switch off Credential Theft Protection ("Protects your credentials against password dumping") temporarily and try it again.

 

I already checked it. It is not DNS or any network related issue on my end.

 

Hello,

Good find @Peter2150...
I am having the same issue but had not figured out what was causing it. I can do a full image with IFW with no issues but always get a drive read error when trying to do a differential or incremental.
Thanks for finding and reporting this as you have saved me some time investigating what was causing this issue. I can verify that HMP.A CTP4 is causing the drive read errors with IFW when doing a differential or incremental image.

 

I installed CTP4 over CTP3 and rebooted. A malware scan now completes without error (I use Google DNS servers). Everything looks good

 

Could some other additional security software be interfering with the malware scan?
You didn't specify if and which other security software is on your test system.

 

Hello @Peter2150,

It did save me some hair (don't have much left ) but I still went through a few complete re-installs of IFW and many images... The bad thing is HMP.A stays quiet and does not alert to anything. If HMP.A had thrown an alert, it would have made things so much easier...
So it seems we have two issues here:

• Credential Theft Protection is causing errors with IFW when doing a differential or incremental image.
• At least in this one case, HMP.A is blocking something but not alerting you to the block.

Thanks again for saving me the money for a toupee ...

 

This was not the first case of HMPA blocking something but not alerting.
We saw the same with MPC-HC. MPC-HC's issue report showed HMPA was the cause of the issue, but HMPA didn't alert.
There may have been more similar cases, that I don't remember.

 

None

 

Thanks, Lockdown.
I think that shows how experiences may differ. While the HMPA scan works on other user's systems, it doesn't on yours.
I hope Erik and Mark can think of something to get it working more reliable.