New user needs help

Hi. I have just downloaded TDS3 and installed it. I cant see that there is real time scanner (eg most others have a scanner which sits in the system tray) How do I set this up. Im waiting for my registration key - do i need this first?

Cheers

 

After update ,when you launch the program ,it will scan your memory running programs ,and after 20 to 30 seconds(you ll see this message :trace scan finished) ,you are ready to click on SYSTEM TESTING ,a tab opens then CLICK SCAN FULL SYSTEM .
it will take normally like 30mn to 1 hour ,then click save log .the log you will find it inside the tds 3 folder
you can delete anything that says confirmed trojan or adware
usually dual extensions are not bad .
IF you are not sure what to delete ,ask someone that knows .

good luck

 

ChrisP,

Realtime protection is through Execution Protection. You need to be a registered user (i.e. you need the key) to activate this. The other thing, you need to (a) install execution protection (TDS>Execution Protection>Install from the menu bar) and (b) TDS-3 needs to be running for it to be active.

Blue

 

ok i just did that ,and is there any way to minimize tds3 to the systray ,should i always keep tds3 open to be protected in real time??

 

No problem on the minimization - that would be a typical way to go. Just select TDS>Configuration, select Minimize TDS to - Windows System Tray as shown on the right hand side of the image below, and that's it.

Blue

 

thanx a million bluezanetti ,
one more thing (i am real noob)

i downloaded a game ,when tried to run the exe for install ,tds said blocked not a trojan ,how to install the file without shutting down tds3 .

this program is great ,and i ll recommend it to my friends and relatives

thank you

 

What was the precise message received? Although some types of applications can trigger alarms from TDS3 by the nature of their function, typical games really shouldn't generally be one of them.

Blue

 

Hi mimo2005 & welcome, One thing that can trigger false positives is running TDS3 from a user account, if you are running from a user account you must start TDS3 using the windows "Run as Administrator" command.

Usually with games or downloads from the internet it is best to do a right click scan with TDS3 before opening the file, be aware though that large files over say 500MB can be problematic as can multiple .zip or .rar files that form one program.

Spend some time reading the stickies at the top of this forum and also register on the DCS TDS3 private forum where you will find a wealth of useful information.

HTH Pilli

 

Thanks Blue etc...
I have installed execution protection and set TDS to run at startup - minimised to system tray. Will TDS kep the exicution protection installed next time I boot or will I need to install it each time I boot?

 

Hi there!
When you start up TDS in the initiation ypu'll see something like this
2-12 09:00:46 [Init] Loading TDS-3 Systems ...
2-12 09:00:46 [Init] • Priority : Couldn't adjust.
2-12 09:00:46 [Init] Token successfully adjusted.
2-12 09:00:46 [Init] • TDS Privileges : OK. Adjusted TDS-3 token privileges to maximum
2-12 09:00:47 [Init] • Plugins : OK. Loaded 22
2-12 09:00:47 [Init] • Exec Protection : OK. Installed
2-12 09:00:48 [Init] TCP 5000 in use - this is probably because of Universal Plug and Play
2-12 09:00:56 [Init] Loading Radius Advanced Scanning Systems ... <R3 Engine, DCS Labs>
2-12 09:01:32 [Init] • Radius Advanced Specialist Extensions on standby for 13 trojan families
2-12 09:01:32 [Init] • Systems Initialised [42763 references - 19196 primaries/11443 traces/12124 variants/other]
Mind you this was on a win98 system so priority wasn't able to be adjusted and the radius update was 2 december's, now it's
6-12 13:35:30 [Radius] • Systems Initialised [43056 references - 19473 primaries/11456 traces/12127 variants/other]
6-12 13:35:30 [Radius] Radius Systems loaded. <Databases updated 06-12-2004>
(thanks Gavin! passed 43000 references today, congratulations!)
So each startup you'll see that exec protection loaded.
This works only with TDS started, no matter if you keep it up or minimized to systray.
Hope this helps somewhat!

You see how long i didn't reboot, which is normally impossible for a win98se system, which needs it's daily reboots if you work with the system, but thanks to Port Explorer which reallty helps freeing space from closed sockets it is possible!