VoodooShield/Cyberlock

Yes, they all work including Update Check with the exception of Edit Whitelist which does not work.

 

Face....what?!?

 

Hi Dan

I have just taken up your offer of a licence - thank you for providing that.

I think you are right in that I was trying to overcomplicate things. Probably the program appears so simple you wonder what it is doing.

I have been playing around with it and found that sometime the icon disappears - usually Opera will sometimes push it into the background.

VS will not always put up a balloon when it blocks something this is running ON.

In the trials I found a program, actually and old bat file for an accounts program and that managed to crash it, but encouragingly it restarted itself.

It is good to be rid of the UAC for ever popping up for the same program.

I have yet to get my head around the Smart Mode and feel better with it ON.

Hope this is of some use to you.

 

That is extremely odd, but thank you for letting me know. Especially since no one else has reported that issue yet. I can have one of the other guys look at it, but they are just going to laugh, since there really is nothing to troubleshoot! All that button does is run the command to take you to our Accounts page. I will see if there is an alternative command I can use. Thank you.

 

hehehe

 

Cool, thank you for letting me know! Yes A LOT of people over think VS since we have had the hardest time explaining how it works and how simple it is. If anyone can explain VS better than we are, PLEASE let us know!! We hired marketing companies and consultants, and they could not explain it either. That is why we just call it a lock.

I better install Opera and see why it is pushing it to the background. Thank you for letting me know. Google notifications push it to the background too, but VS reappears after the notification hides.

There are a few things that VS blocks where we do not alert the user with a balloon. This basically applies to a handful of system processes that the user would want to (or could) run anyway. If you leave VS in Smart Mode for a couple of days, it will learn these processes and will pretty much never happen again.

Yes, I agree with you on UAC. It would be a totally different story if UAC actually stopped viruses, but the reality is, it does not. Besides, UAC uses and affirmative user prompt, which we believe is the biggest security hole out there. A user should never be asked if they want to run something or not (and be forced to provide an answer), because a lot of times, they do not know what is trying to run. That is why we use a deny by default method, and if VS is blocking something that the user is trying to run, then they have the choice to click on the balloon to run it (and obviously scanning with VirusTotal first ).

Smart Mode is simple, please quit over thinking it . Think of it this way...

New, unknown (unlearned) executable code should NEVER be allowed to run while the user has a web browser or email client open. So VS toggles between ON and OFF so it can lock the computer while it is at risk.

Thank you for trying VS and for your input!

 

Ah! You found my Achilles heel

Opera will also push the task bar (if on auto hide) into the background.

The icon is always there when you minimise Opera.

 

Good deal!

Opera must use the AlwaysOnTop command, which really is probably not a good idea for a web browser. I will play around with it, I am curious now.

 

To me VS is in Lockdown Mode when protection is set to ALWAYS ON. I'm not sure what else could be done. When in ALWAYS ON mode it automatically blocks anything that is not already on the whitelist. Do you want it to block applications on the white list to?

 

VoodoShield is like a student/teacher in school:
During class, VS learns how to handle the subject (PC). After that is done, there's time for exam/lockdown of information. Since VS is good student, it will not cheat, and because of that, only information that was learned during classes will be allowed to be executed/written.

My brief explanation hehe

 

I think he is talking about disabling the balloon notifications and VS flashing in Always ON Mode, and calling it something like Lockdown Mode. But like I was saying, you can always disable balloon notifications, and I am thinking that we should probably never disable VS flashing.

 

Great analogy, thank you!

 

Oh, it's already here. I wanted this. Cool!

 

Cool! Do you think we should have an option to disable VS flashing as well? I think we need VS to flash, but I would be curious what other people think.

 

Making it optional would be ok. I would not want it disabled on my machines. I would like to know when it's blocking something since it may be something that needs to be allowed. I feel confident in my judgement to allow or deny something to execute. Maybe less knowledgeable users would infect themselves by accidentally allowing a threat to execute though.

 

No I like the Flashing as is so if you do anything make it optional but Lockdown Mode sounds good but us users that have been using VS for quite awhile now understand what Always On means but I always use Smart Mode.

TH

 

Cool, thank you. I am just curious if we should even have it as an option. I like to keep VS as simple as possible, and not add features unless it is necessary.

 

Cool, thank you TH! We will keep the flashing for sure, but we might make it optional. Yes, I always use smart mode too .

 

I would prefer to have an option to disable VS flashing - this is the idea of the "lockdown" approach: it silently blocks everything except what is whitelisted. It is good when other not welcomed users can have access to your PC (just my case at home and at office). And when you know that you are in a routine mode for now (you use only what is whitelisted) and don't want any distractions.

 

Sounds good, thank you!

 

I'm fine with flashing.....it doesn't bother me....

 

Hehehe, we already knew that .

 

What?!?
You are psychic now?

 

Is this "free 1 year" subscription is valid only for 1 installation? I installed VS with this login at my home PC then stopped using it (as I work only under the SUA) then when I installed it at my office PC where i'm only admin, it says "error in confirmation of login" or something like that and stay in trial only with all the settings staff unavailable. Can I somehow revive my "free 1 year" subscription?

 

Sorry...I don't think so...what you wrote is more similar to "stealth mode/game mode" when visible activity of aplication is hidden for every user not only for unwanted guest. VS can consider such option when we will have no icon in systray, no poups, no flashing what everything can be enabled/disabled with one move in one place in settings panel (maybe additional keyboard shortcut?)
IMHO...VS don't need to be so expanded and complicated...its advantage, power and quality are in simplicity of work and way of using. Beauty lies in simplicity