Pros & Cons of DefenseWall

Hi

looking for advise & opinions on how to set up Defensewall + like to add some feedback of my own

DefenseWall is the lightest fastest piece of Security ive ever used!
Major problem? It disabled my entire Op system from working!

I guess that was because I was running all in an untrusted state
on DF and it blocked most of the executibles vital to running the system
to the net and flash content etc

on the Plus side. It picked up 4 temp internet files that were up to no good

I discovered one major issue with DF, it locked in my IE8 configuration so I coult not change out a basic security problem from the tabs/internet options whereby it locks in the settings for Autocomplete.

A big concern as I thought it was an inherent process that IE8 had hardwired into their new browser or a skulduggerous collaboration with google! anyway my conspiracy theories died when I rolled back all the recent software and the culprit emerged as DF

DF is very interesting indeed, Im impressed that it goes so even that far that you cant change your Op system ,but it would have been handy to know prior to that.

My summary is that DF is indeed light & powerful but I will have to tinker some more to get used to its settings and maybe Im on Vista as well.

1Q. Is it safe to move IE8 into a trusted state on DF, assumimg that nothing else can piggy back through the IEexplorer.exe

Thx
Ant

 

DefenseWall really doesn't require any configuration...it runs well out of the box with great protection. Internet facing applications will run as untrusted by default and system files will be trusted. I gather you set your system exe's to run as untrusted?

 

No, you would allow everything downloaded by IE8

 

U must say DW not DF( DW- DefenceWall, DF- DeepFreeze).
IE8 must be untrusted in DW( rather than trusted, otherwise u are not getting any benenfit from DW.

 

It is not recommened to set up DW manually if you:

1. Really don't understand why and what should be untrusted.
2. Don't read security software help file.

 

DefenseWall doesn't setup every internet app as untrusted.

I use uTorrent, it wasn't added as untrusted and I use Kmeleon as my browser and it wasn't added, so you have to manually add some at times...

 

After you install uTorrent, try the button 'add' in the untrusted application, and 'add from built-in list'.

 

Also make sure that you have checked this box in DefenseWall options: