What is a difference between HIDS and HIPS?

What is a difference between HIDS and HIPS? I guess that WinPatrol is a HIDS-based monitor, but Malware Defender is a classical, strong HIPS monitor.
Does anyone can explain it?
Thanks,
Adam

 

HIDS = Hostbased Intrusion Detection System (your computer)
HIPS = Hostbased Intrusion Prevention System
NIDS = Network Intrusion Detection System (network)

See also Wikipedia etc. for much more info

Gerard

 

hi,

Both are system/desktop based protection, but HIPSs rely mostly on anomaly detection of system activity, and HIDSs rely mostly on anomaly detection of network activity.
HIPS are recommended in Windows machines, and HIDS on Linux PC (OSSEC HIDS for instance is avalaibale for the two platforms).
If you're not in a W/LAN, there is no need of an HIDS as any good firewall will log suspicious events.
And in a few words, an HIPS tries to detect/prevent malwares from infecting the local host, and an HIDS tries to detect/prevent intruders/hackers (stealth port scan etc.) from gaining acces to the local host.

Rgds

 

Very good explanation!

 

And what would be considered good and relatively easy to use HIPS for a Windows 7 x64 pc?
Thanks.

 

Online Armor since it has a good community and a whitelist that you can rely on, based on my experience OA Premium in default settings after a few reboots is extremely quiet.
In fact in my PC i have all those auto trust, whitelist etc. deactivated and after a few days it could not be quieter

 

Comodo Firewall with Defense+ is also a good choice. These days also very quiet due to extensive whitelisting.