Katie DriveSentry

The new test build is running at 20mb on my Vista PC and the same under XP. I noticed that Drivesentry used 50mb on XP on first boot but after maximizing the gui and minimizing it dropped to 3mb then starts climbing back up to around about 20. I'm glad the memory issue is getting addressed as I saw peak mem once hit 180mb!! This might have been a bug but its much better now so I won't dwell on the issue.

The auto allow signed apps option makes things very quite. I upgraded my Windows XP PC to SP3 and didn't get any prompts, great feature!

Answer to subset's question in regards a file having no extension. I'm sure this is allocated a process ID so would be picked up by Drivesentry. I've test running DLL's and other weird executable types and they did get trapped.

Kate any news on the rootkit protection?

~interact

 

im running DS with the AV enabled alongside Avira and no problems, DS's AV component seems to be compatible with almost any AV.

 

its sound very silly to run 2 AV in same time isnt?

ds has its own AV database so why run AVIRA also?

 

I'm having same problem, with IE7. Do you have MVPs host file perhaps? I will try going back to standard host file and see if behavior changes.

EDIT: OK, still no go with standard HOSTS, no go after starting DNS Client service and changing to automatic startup, no go after removing IE from sandboxie forced programs list either.

 

yes but im sure thers SOME thing that DS would have in their database that Avira doesn't. and DriveSentry is fully compatible with Avira + i have no slow downs, so why not?

 

because its doesn't stand for the concept of running 1 AV only !
some AV wont even install if other AV already present.
its like running 2 firewall in the same time , very stupid i may say

 

Well, the reason 2 av are bad is incompatibility, same with firewalls, drivesentry on the other hand is a unique case, since DS main purpose is to be a BB and it was made to be used alongside another AV, and as a standalone and I've been using it for around a month alongside avira and no problems

 

u can try install nod32+avira also ... not sure any problem will shown , DS got its signature , a full av signature mate , so i don't understand even DS support suggest to run this ds alongside another av..... really wried

 

RAM usage may not be as low as I originally thought. After it settled to about 43meg the last part of the day yesterday, I shut down DS to restart it. I hoped it would start off in the 20s again. Instead it has started off using 53meg, and has stayed there (been about an hour now). I tried opening the GUI, and closing it, but once the program uses ram, it does not seem to give it back. Looks like maybe they have some more things to patch.

 

hmm i dunno, mine hasnt gone above 32k since i started using it.

 

The new test build is working well here. Memory use on boot varies between 32 – 48 MB, dropping to just under 4 MB just after, then settling in at about 11MB.

The advisor pops up under the default browser, which is Firefox, just fine. The only other programs that start under boot are Windows Defender and Process Lasso. Sandboxie is the only other security app installed. It is only used occasionally and has no conflicts.

 

For the patched DriveSentry, I found this regarding my advisor display failures - the url passed to IE7 seems to be malformed. The malformation is "-url%20http//" inserted between the "//" and the "www" in the passed url. If I eliminate that substring from the url, all works fine.

 

Are you using process explorer, or task manager to report memory? It makes a large difference. For instance task mgr currently shows DS using 30meg, while process explorer shows a working set of 50meg.

 

You're right, I never noticed that before. I have been referencing task manager. Right now I have Drivesentry at 5 MB (private bytes) in task manager and 36 MB (private bytes) in process explorer. Both are reporting 21 MB (working set).

I should also mention I'm using Vista.

 

In my experience task mgr always shows less usage, but is less accurate than process explorer.

 

Yes, I know that DS recognizes these kind of files On Access or On Execute.
But I was talking about On Demand scan, where you have to doubleclick or rightclick every single file without extension for DS... like a babysitter.
That's why I was asking for an option to scan ALL files On Demand.

Cheers

 

Clocks,

They actually both show the same just different descriptions. If you select to show VM size in task manager then it should equal the same as process explorer's "Private Bytes". I would focus on "Mem usage" which is the true physical memory which is displayed as "Working Set" in process explorer. The O/S will create enough virtual memory it considers a process may need. Explorer.exe is a good example which most often uses more memory usage than has been allocated to virtual or "private bytes"

Vista displays process memory much more realistically whereas XP taskman will drop up and down as a process is minimized to tray.

Drivesentry is currently using 13mb (working set) on my Vista box and has been most of the day.

~interact

 

Ok so adding * to the scanner options by default which will scan all files in the background. I understand now sorry been a heavy few days

~interact

 

Oh yes, besides the memory leak problem, now I remember why I stopped testing DriveSentry. After installing DS and that updated .exe and .dll file, I still got those BSOD errors linked to NTFS.sys with the combination of DS and SBIE. Oh any my startup DS memory usage was 40 MB on Vista.

dja2k

 

Good info, thanks. I'm up to 55meg now, and growing.

 

Adding * will only force DS to scan files with any extension.
But... files with no extension will still be missed.

Of course this is only relevant for useless AV On Demand comparison tests, like...

Cheers

 

Mine also settles in around the same.
A huge improvement on my system.

Two problems I am having however.
Advisor will not open. Says page not found on IE6.
Trickle updates keeps coming unchecked and yes I have the paid version.

I have been running DS with Avira premium with no conflicts.

 

I posted a workaround here: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1373950&postcount=837 in case you're interested.

 

Have been running DS for about 4 hours. Under 30K. Going to leave the tower on all night to see where it peaks.

Would be curious if the mem usage is not somehow related to the amount of tasks running? I run a stripped down vers. of XP on the test tower. 17 total processes. Only DS and SbieSvc (Sandboxie) are not native.

 

Thanks crofttk, I'll give it a go.