New version of ShadowDefender

In retrospect and on closer review, if this newer version ShadowDefender is all that it's coming to be from whats been mentioned for it, i will defintely be taking a turn in it's direction myself i think.

The feature of keeping a software across reboots while remaining shadowed is a benefit worth attention.

 

Have just tried out SD and although most of the features are of no interest to me the basic program worked well but with one major weakness:

I forgot to turn off shadow mode when I tried to restore my image. Now with DeepFreeze 6 and the free version of Returnil when I forget they very politely refuse to be destroyed and simply return me to windows unchanged. Unfortunately, on one of my machines at least, SD just stopped Acronis working and would not allow me to go back to windows or restore. SD could not, of course, stop itself being destroyed by my boot CD allowing me to restore C:
after all.

Perhaps Acronis is to blame and someone who uses a better Imaging Program will find that SD plays nicely but from my point of view programs (DeepFreeze and Returnil) which allow for human weakness as program weakness are better than those (SD) that don't.

 

They all do that don't they ? or are you saying that several reboots later you can then get rid of the installed program ? leaving the system as though it had never been installed ?

 

you don't use shadow mode very often then ? I wonder what would happen if an incremental is performed whilst in shadow mode ? perhaps nothing ? anyway I have an intense dislike for continuous and incremental preferring to keep C: frozen except when making changes with images always being full and of un protected or unfrozen drives. Fortunately when my alertness wanders DeepFreeze and Returnil are very understanding and quietly tell me to do the job again correctly.

 

I have never heard of this software before but it has been said it prevents low-level disk access. Does that prevent changes being made in the master boot record and by software like Julie Lau's sector editor?

 

According to what I wrote here, yes. For the test I used Ms Lau's editor.

Blue

 

Thanks to your thread, I can more make a more informed decision in these types of programs. Well done, Blue.

 

Oh, and the vendors name is Tony, in case anyone emails support.

 

Does anyone happen to have a handy link that's not a website full of garbage to download Julie Lau's sector editor?

I never seen such a travesty of jumping thru ads in all my life over a single app courtesy chinese mass media.

 

Never mind. I finally nailed it after plowing thru the mess of crap they hide it in. Stupid as it gets.

 

Just what is it anyway, or what does it do. Maybe I shouldnt know.

 

HI

welp read most reply in here... but a big BUT goes 2 SD....

copy it from vendor site ...==>>Version 1.0.0.130 - Decemeber 27, 2007
New: defeat passdiskprotect_C.exe(a malware)

i said WTF? ...isnt is supose to be a virtual suit? how come malware defeat it?
and this is not the only malware who defeat SD....==>>Version 1.0.0.129 - Decemeber 25, 2007
New: defeat robodog(a malware)

deep freeze such situation never happned...SD is not much to trust.

cheers

 

oh boy, guess I will give it a shot. You think that just because you use a virtual product you are 100 percent protected from malware. Nope and these are some real nasties. Oh, and SD proved to beat ones, others didnt.

 

hi trjam... deep freeze by defualt beat them all.. is market target is INDUSTRY not for home users. read in there site they said 100% garuntie .

cheers

 

demoneye,

Deep Freeze is a very strong solution and Faronics is a solid and long lived supplier. If you want rock solid protection and wish to protect partitions in which the content is primarily static, I can't think of a better solution. There are specific classes of PC's that fit this profile extremely well (institutional and public general access machines), and Deep Freeze is optimized for that situation.

Home users can, in fact, mimic that scenario fairly well if they choose to. In those instances, it's a great solution and it has a substantial period of development and field use behind it - which speaks extremely well of it's stability.

However, not everyone is willing to live within the rather strict confines that can be imposed by Deep Freeze. For them, a more dynamic solution may be appropriate with the appreciation that every convenience incorporated to allow for dynamically committed content provides a potential avenue for attack.

It's really not a whole lot different than the situation with the Windows OS itself - many of the primary routes for productive attack follow paths that have been incorporated into the OS for seemlessly enhancing the dynamic nature of the user experience - a simple example of this would be autorun scripts on CD's or removable HDD's - completely unnecessary when you get down to it, but lots of users love popping a disc in a having everything handled automatically - for what? The elimination of a double click?

Blue

 

hi BlueZannetti

so u admit deep freeze is safer than SD and all other home kiddo applz... and stronger in protecting your value data in the froozen drive (and public general access machines) hehe ...welp thats what none lamers box users are looking for !

cheers

 

Sorry I got most of this but "welp thats what none lamers box users are looking for" defeats me. I'm not sure what none lamers box users are. Any chance of a translation into English, Spanish, French, or even American ?

bon any nou

 

hi Long View ....if u know what is the meaning of lamers y will understand that pro none lamers users use what work over 100%.... no kiide play....no kame skin for winamp...no kiddo behavior

simple

 

Admit? Admit what? Is this a cross examination?

I'm just stating my impression of the situation. It's not like I have a vested interest in it one way or the other. It is what it is.

On the other hand, I also view the situation as I would any other approach to protection - there's a trade-off between facile utility and intrinsic strength and the balancing calculation needs to recognize that, at some level, differences simply don't matter. Let's see, sitting here tonight, what is the chance I'll be struck by lightning? 1 in billion? Maybe if I go downstairs it will be 1 in billion^2? There are two ways to look at this: (a) Downstairs is a billion times safer or (b) Both are close enough to zero that, frankly, I don't care and I don't pay attention to the difference.

Let's just say that SD vs DF is closer to (b) than (a) for me and if I'm wrong, the undo is trivial.

Blue

 

passdiskprotect_C.exe = unauthorized executable, which is immediately stopped by Anti-Executable.
That's what I call a stupid malware, too easy to detect.