Advice Request A free VoodooShield alternative?

[ifacedown]

Is there a product that uses whitelisting like Voodooshield which is free? Thanks.

 

[KaptainBug]

SecureAPlus. Free for a year then you can extend your license by referrals. Refer 6 people within a year and you get lifetime license.

https://secureaplus.secureage.com/Main/index.php

 

[ifacedown]

is secureaplus good? is it light?

 

[KaptainBug]

How would you know without trying ? Try it. For me it works well.
You have two options when installing. AV+whitelisting or only whitelisting option. Choose the one you want when installation.

 

[ifacedown]

How would you know without trying ? Try it. For me it works well.
You have two options when installing. AV+whitelisting or only whitelisting option. Choose the one you want when installation.

Hmmm...let me try. But I am only using a netbook.

 

[KaptainBug]

It works light.. Around 15MB memory. I didn't experience any slowdowns. There is a thread in MT and Wilders for SecureAPlus. You can get more info there..

http://malwaretips.com/threads/secureaplus-freemium.17236/
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=350914

 

[Littlebits]

My opinion, anti-executable software are just a waste of time on modern Windows, if you always utilize UAC and never approve anything that you don't know for sure is safe, always pay attention when downloading or running files and keep your software updated there is no need for such products. Anti-executable products only benefit reckless users who click on everything and download files without checking to see if they are safe then ignore UAC prompts and just click approve without doing any checking.

You can't benefit from running an Anti-executable if you only download files from trusted download sources.
Your actions will determine what kind of protection that you will need.

Thanks.

 

[bawldiggle]

I have been using Voodoo Shield for 2 years on 5 AutoCad machines
- we are consulting engineers and in my spare time I write addons for AutoCad
- we cannot afford risky security/invasion protection software
I tried VDS on our knock about laptop for 12 months and it never faulted
One attempted ransom attempt was detected by VDS and blocked the repeated loops of attempted hijacking
while Bitdefender took about 15 seconds to discover there was a threat.
So much for back to base verification by BD and/or BD heuristics were asleep.

UAC is not as smart as we are all led to believe, and if UAC is disabled ... then what. Human error is the weak link on any system.

One recommendation by VDS developer about 12 months ago ...
anti-Phishing with emails is best detected with a free AV ... personnally I use free BD, only because it was there

 

[vtqhtr413]

UAC is not as smart as we are all led to believe, and if UAC is disabled ... then what.

If you have VoodooShield than forget about that, it was originally designed to replace UAC, he built a better mouse trap.

anti-Phishing with emails is best detected with a free AV

Or a decent email client. I've been using Microsofts email for at least 15 years and have never been breached, pay attention to their alerts, use your good judgment and you will be 99% safe. Good luck to you in your ventures.

 

[TairikuOkami]

You can just enable "ValidateAdminCodeSignatures" tweak to let only exes with valid certificates to run.
Then use virustotal extension to scan files before downloading and you have basically got a free voodooshield.

 

[MeltdownEnemy]

Crystal Security as antiexe it is free for you. i do no use it but i heard about it.

 

[Behold Eck]

OSArmour free might make a good addition to whatever whitelisting solution you choose as it operates much like a BB and gives post execution protection.

Regards Eck

 

[Arequire]

if you always utilize UAC and never approve anything that you don't know for sure is safe

Don't fool yourself about UAC being some watered-down anti-exe because it's definitely not.
UAC has been bypassed time and time again since it was released and a lot of malware doesn't even need privilege elevation to carry out their malicious action. Remember WannaCry? It didn't ever request or need privilege elevation to cause the damage it did.

Anti-executable products only benefit reckless users who click on everything and download files without checking to see if they are safe then ignore UAC prompts and just click approve without doing any checking.

Obviously being a happy-clicker means your system will eventually be infected and that will be their own fault, but even as a cautious user you're not always in control of what you're downloading. Any reputable website can be compromised and forced to run malicious code that pushes malware or it could display ads from a compromised ad network that do the same thing.

Same thing with applications. Take the CCleaner incident: Blackhats were able to steal Piriform's credentials, add malicious code to CCleaner and re-upload it to their website for anybody to download. The only ones to blame for this were Piriform employees and their obviously shameful in-house protections.

Ultimately you can't blame the user if they have no control over the attack vector, regardless of whether they practice safe browsing habits or not.

 

[ForgottenSeer 58943]

 

[vtqhtr413]

That's halarious, what in the world!

However, I didn't notice Littlebits post above bawldiggle, we better hope she doesn't come back and read this, she was kind of a tough customer :emoji_cold_sweat:

 

[ForgottenSeer 69673]

You can just enable "ValidateAdminCodeSignatures" tweak to let only exes with valid certificates to run.

Ask cruelsister about this? Malware is being signed with legit sigs now days.
I use bothe an SRP Appguard and Voodooshield Pro

 

[Azure]

@Arequire
From what I recall, the vast majoriry of UAC bypass are due to the default settings that Microsoft put it on.

Switch to UAC at max + SUA account. That should help.

Btw, all of you know that this thread is from 4 years ago. VoodooShield already has a free version.

 

[Arequire]

Btw, all of you know that this thread is from 4 years ago. VoodooShield already has a free version.

Wow... I'll uh, schedule an eye exam tomorrow. :emoji_flushed:

 

[vtqhtr413]

Wow... I'll uh, schedule an eye exam tomorrow. :emoji_flushed:

I was vaguely pointing to this in my last post, Littlebits is retired staff.

 

[509322]

My opinion, anti-executable software are just a waste of time on modern Windows, if you always utilize UAC and never approve anything that you don't know for sure is safe, always pay attention when downloading or running files and keep your software updated there is no need for such products. Anti-executable products only benefit reckless users who click on everything and download files without checking to see if they are safe then ignore UAC prompts and just click approve without doing any checking.

You can't benefit from running an Anti-executable if you only download files from trusted download sources.
Your actions will determine what kind of protection that you will need.

Thanks.

Good 'ol Littlebits…

• People disable UAC
• People approve anything without knowing anything about its safety
• People do not pay attention when downloading and running files
• People do not keep software updated
• People are reckless
• People do click on everything and download files without checking to see if they are safe
• People ignore UAC prompts by immediately selecting YES

Users are a menace to themselves. Always have been, always will be.

People should be locked out of the system for their own good, so there is real need for anti-executable and software restriction policy software.