Introducing, The New Prevx Edge.

If you still have a log, could you send it to me so I can double check/fix the FPs?

 

A few of them are some I already reported to you a week or so ago when running the trial version (which I deinstalled a few days ago prior to last night's install), but I WILL find the others as soon as I get this one laptop squared away and off the top of the priority list.

 

Has Prevx detected any new variants of Conficker Worm or any increase in the worm (C variant) activity. It is after midnight where I live and the only thing I noticed is that you can't get on Secunia or similar scanners. I assume a lot of people are scanning their computers with all the press.

 

i was going to ask that
is prevx edge going to be ready for tomorrow's attack ?

 

We have not seen any significant increase of malicious activity caused by Conficker worm at the moment, and I bet bad guys won't do anything today.

Anyway yes, Prevx Edge is ready against these kind of attacks, we're costantly monitoring the situation, 24/365

 

Is there a way to copy & paste the licence key from the Prevx application? I often find I have to hand-write out the key when for instance upgrading from Prevx2 to Edge.

 

We currently don't but I'll add this to the list for the next version

 

Biscuit, use faststone capture, free and portable screenshot software.
http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=775

Take a screenshot of your prevx licence and save it as a jpeg.

 

...or do the same with Vista's snip tool...

philby

 

Or simply type it into a text file and save it somewhere convenient. I capture all my receipts and emails with PDF Factory when I buy software online and keep them with the install files.

 

On reflection, if you don't want to have to do any typing at all, Saraceno's suggestion seems more convenient because with Faststone you can copy text-only directly from a capture and paste it into a license field.

I can't see a way to copy pasteable text-only from Vista's snip tool - unless I'm missing something...?

I tried saving a rectangle-capture of the license key only and dropping the whole jpg into the license field, but of course this didn't work.

Thanks for the s/w tip Saraceno.

philby

 

Thanks guys

My request was not for a one-off. I am installing Prevx on customer's computers several times a day, renewing their Edge software & also upgrading Prevx2 to Edge. Being able to copy & paste the licence key would be a huge help (thanks Joe).

 

TTT says in the interim, as a work-around, why not simply use the License renewal pages to scrape the lickkey off resulting webpages?

1. PX3 > "Configure Protection" > back notetab > "License Information > "Get a license" > highlite the key > rmb > "copy" etc,

2. PX2 > Prevx Console > License > Buy/Renew > "Click here to renew...." > highlite the lic key under "Thank you for choosing...." > cont as for 1. above...

Never hand write it Unless you're a sad masochistic numeroligist past his prime (number)......

 

Good tip Horseman, thanks.

 

Yes, it happens on all three of my PC/laptops. I noticed it shortly after installing PrevX Edge, so I think it must be related.

 

@PrevxHelp:

Is PE performing network activity upon a shutdown event...? Are you doing update checking or cloud uploading or network disconnect monitoring...? Shutdown delays could be atrtributable to such activity due to waiting for network responses...

I am getting ready to purchase ~30 licenses...so, performance issues are an important consideration...

galileo

 

As of this day and in 9 months of running edge across many platforms, I can atest to no startup, shutdown lag whatsoever as of this date, since im a real stickler for quick startups and shutdowns, its something I pay close attention to.

Im ever curious what would cause it on the one fellows PC because it one of the most impressive features of Edge, the ability to protect yet almost seem like it isnt even there.

 

Me too

Me too

I've had no problems whatsoever on Vista HP - it really is like PE isn't there at all.

philby

 

I am surprised to hear the complaints about shutdown time coming from a few users, and I think it might be a case of perception and being suspicious of Edge as the culprit. We've done extensive testing on startup and shutdown times - on a wide range of systems, Edge delayed the startup time by 1.5 seconds after the first installation and it did not delay the shutdown time by any measurable amount.

We've intentionally designed Edge to move out of the way as soon as it sees that the system is shutting down, completely eliminating the possibility for a delay. If possible, could some of the people here which are having these shutdown delays run some comparison tests with Edge disabled and Enabled (right click on the tray icon and select "Enable on reboot" in the dropdown menu)?

Windows shutdown times are rarely regular, especially with Windows updates and the significant difference of a system with a number of programs open and one with no programs open so, from my experience, I would tend to attribute this to the OS rather than Edge but if it is possible to make a replicable scenario where Edge delays the shutdown time, we will definitely work on fixing it

 

While we are concerned about any potential performance/interaction issues......we can confirm that we have not experienced any shutdown delays with any machines on which PE has been installed (XPP+SP3+IE7/IE8 on corporate LAN)......However, we are currently testing in Evaluation mode......if that has any bearing...

galileo

 

Evaluation mode has exactly the same overhead as registered mode

 

So no problem here .

 

Not sure what happened there but I have yet to hear back and no other users have reported it

 

That was what we thought we understood from many or your explanations throughout this thread. Thanks for the confirmation......

galileo

 

Joe,
I am one of those who have mentioned experiencing a slowdown on shutting down my machine, not sure there is any slowdown on start up. When I say a slowdown I am talking of maybe 10 secs longer, not enough to worry about. I don't have my machine set up with Edge at the moment as I am playing about with something else at the moment but will try and set it up tomorrow and get some timings. Is there any recommended free (or trial) diagnostic software that you would like me to run both with and without Edge to get an accurate picture of what happens? My machine is not new and processing would be considered pedestrian by to days standards, whether this is a contributory factor I don't know.