Which HIPS works with Vista

Here I tested following apps, all of them claim to work with Vista. For me this was not the case. My machine is clean, just came out of dell.

• Safe'N'Sec - doesn't work
• DefenseWall - doesn't work
• System Safety Monitor - DOES work - but one error message so far
• ProSecurity - doesn't work, it says it can't connect to kernel and it says I am using a cracked version of ProSecurity... Tha't funny, I just donwloaded it from www.proactive-hips.com...

I didn't try to install ProcessGuard, since there is no updated version in sight, I don't want to waste my time. Perhaps someone has experience with running ProcessGuard on Vista??

POST EDIT:
Seems I found the problem for Safe'n'Sec... at least... The problem is with ESS Eset Smart Security. If both are loaded, Safe'n'sec doesn't load or - the system hangs at some point. Not freezes, but just hangs. When I disable autoloading ESS driver service, Safensec starts fine. I can then start ESS manually and start the driver with "net start ekrn". I'll post this in ESS forum, since this is more appropriate there.

First impressions last long... it seems I will stay with SSM for a while.

Apropos the proggy called ProSecurity - I like the idea this little proggy being the future of ProcessGuard. However the idea it need to patch kernel seems like it doesn't have very long future. Microsoft is planning to limit this. There are products that are more advaced and don't need to patch kernel.
Experts - please correct me if I am wrong on this point.

Hope this helps anybody...

 

ProcessGuard doesnt support Vista.

As for a Vista-compatible HIPS, have you tried ThreatFire or Prevx2?

 

DefenseWall is another

 

PrevX -
resource hog (win XP and win 2000)
But anyway, perhaps someone can try PrevX and give us opinion?

Cyberhawk -
not as userfriendly. It reminds me about Office 2000 interface.
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CJsDad - DefenseWall was the one I tested. See above.



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I beg to differ. Maybe "resource hog" is different on different computers and has a different meaning depending on the user, but Prevx2 played very well on both Winxp and Vista when i used it (had it for a year or so) its been a couple of weeks since I had it installed though. It did not slow down anything. It just sat there and didnt bother me in anyway until it found something that the community or heuristic couldnt solve.

 

I read that ThreatFire beta has a new nicer GUI. Maybe give it a second shot?

 

Great, I might give a try to PrevX again.

Perhaps it was slow because the systems I used before where older, small memory etc...

 

How about the HIPS from Spyware Terminator (my company's product)? It supports Vista32bit.

 

I believe that your are correct re. the current version 1.30 but not correct re. the current beta 1.40 as this was posted at the ProSecurity forum:

" ProSecurity v1.40 Public Beta 2 Released!
Jul 30th, 2007, 9:07am What's new? [July 30, 2007]
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1. [NEW] Windows Vista x86 is supported except the network protection function.
2. [FIX] The warning box can't keep top most on Windows 2003.
3. [FIX] Several BSOD bugs of v1.40 beta1 fixed.
4. [FIX] Other small bugs fixed.

Support OS: Windows 2000 SP4/XP SP1 SP2/2003/Vista x86
Download URL: http://www.proactive-hips.com/download/pssetup_140pb2.exe
Support Email:support@proactive-hips.com"

Not sure when the beta version will go current?

Hope that helps?

 

It would be nice of the topic would be changed to vista 32... I use 64 for instance. And then the world looks even more strange.