FS Protection PC 18.2 (Beta)

Razza

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I see FS Protection is at 18.2 beta now

The changes
Release 18.2 beta 1 (4.70.352):
New features:
  • Tamper protection prevents user or external software from disabling SAFE processes, changing the installation folder content or editing relevant values in registry. It is turned off by default and can be enabled in Settings. Please note: help has not been updated yet.
  • People view can now be used to manage people and devices directly in the client user interface instead of logging into My FS Protection in a browser.
Fixed issues:
  • Switch User button is clickable after releasing license (PBL-8859)
  • Hang when logging in through person view (PBL-8852)
  • After logging out and in, the subscription state changes to "expiring soon" if it is continuous (PBL-8848)

Finally some tamper protection
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  • Tamper protection prevents user or external software from disabling SAFE processes, changing the installation folder content or editing relevant values in registry. It is turned off by default and can be enabled in Settings. Please note: help has not been updated yet.

Did they hear us? We need someone to test how it works. I hope the antivirus isn't so easy to turn off now. :)
 

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turned off by default
This means users has to be fully aware of the actual available option and also what it is, and in the end Turn it ON, otherwise it's very useless. Very similar Microsoft still today refuse enable show extension names for known file types. Even though, I would guess F-Secure will eventually enable it by default, because most settings that actually is helpful and important enough is always ON. Using a SUA ( standard user account ) for common/home users is still recommended as it protect and cover even the previous tamper protection " issue " automatic.

I already noticed improved tamper protection in the stable version 18.1, but testing that on nothing else then a admin account and only via the taskmanager is inconclusive. I'll do a correct test this upcoming weekend if I have enough time for it.
 

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I agree, I would keep it disabled.
If you ride your bike carefully and have a quiet city, you can ride without a helmet, I agree, but it still seems strange not to wear a helmet with full awareness when it doesn't bother you at all. Am I missing something here? What reason is there for not turning on self-protection? Reduced performance? There shouldn't be.
 

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If you ride your bike carefully and have a quiet city, you can ride without a helmet, I agree, but it still seems strange not to wear a helmet with full awareness when it doesn't bother you at all. Am I missing something here? What reason is there for not turning on self-protection? Reduced performance? There shouldn't be.
You are right. As soon as I get a new PC, I will keep it enabled, which is enabled by default. I thought it would be resource hungry.
 

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If you ride your bike carefully and have a quiet city, you can ride without a helmet, I agree, but it still seems strange not to wear a helmet with full awareness when it doesn't bother you at all. Am I missing something here? What reason is there for not turning on self-protection? Reduced performance? There shouldn't be.
I’m curious too. I agree with others that tamper protection isn’t a super valuable feature in this regard. Attempting to mess with antivirus processes is caught by both behavior blockers as well as sandbox analyzers…. It’s pretty much reputation suicide for your file. But having it doesn’t really affect things much in terms of downsides.

I remember one time Sophos pretty much defeated me with their endpoint protection. They require a password from the management server (unique to each endpoint). I had sold the endpoint appliance so I couldn’t get the password and they did a great job of blocking just about every method I could think of for removing it, including safe mode. Ended up spending hours from a bootable WinPE environment doing surgery to deactivate it enough.
 

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Release 18.2 beta 2 (4.70.475):

New features:

  • Main UI have a new feature card added which is about ID Monitoring. When this feature card is selected, a monitoring page will be displayed where you can add email addresses to be monitored for potential data breaches. Please note: help is missing and will be added in future release.
Fixed issues:

  • People View feature card: Manage button opens external browser (PBL-8939)
  • Allowed and blocked websites lists are not shown (SAFE_BUG-03432/PBL-8932)
  • People view: UI-related issues (PBL-8950, PBL-8943, PBL-8944, PBL-8959, PBL-8958)
  • People view: Keyboard navigation broken (PBL-8942)
  • Cannot unlink device using aveui from webview2 on Windows (AP-14972/PBL-8929)
  • Parental control time spans do not follow regional time format (PBL-8764)
 

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Release 18.2 beta 3 (4.70.757):

New features:

  • Tamper protection is enabled by default for users who have not enabled/disabled this setting themselves.
Fixed issues:

  • Restart prompt not shown upon malfunction (PBL-9009)
  • Dark mode: person card border invisible & no hover effect (PBL-8940)
  • Not all browser shortcuts are disabled in Webview2 views (PBL-9039)
  • White screen is shown instead of People&Devices view/ID Monitoring after clicking Try again (PBL-9045)
  • Family rules: Remaining time is much larger than daily limit (PBL-9018)
  • Change user window: "service is not available" notification shown when problems with the internet connection (PBL-8809)
  • Missing dropdown shadow for a window when a harmful file is found (PBL-8039)
  • WebView2 updated, fixes SAFE_BUG-03367: Switch user profile window, login form: Privacy Policy opened in two windows (PBL-8752)
 

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Release 18.2 beta 4 (4.70.859):

Known issues:
  • People & Devices: notifications are not shown if webview2 was removed (PBL-9052)
Fixed issues:

  • "No internet connection" title is shown at People & Devices view when did not logged in yet (PBL-9050)
  • Log out message has a blank value if non-admin user did not log into as a kid (PBL-8872)
  • webview2 views scroll issues (PBL-9007)
  • Main UI: Inconsistent use of period (".") on feature cards (PBL-8989)
 

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Release 18.2 beta 5 (4.70.1022):

New features:

  • Banking protection turned off smart task (PBL-8474). In other words, main UI warns when you turn off the Banking protection feature. Please note: the Browsing & Banking view has not been updated yet. Also, localizations are not ready yet.
Known issues:

  • Hang taking product into use when machine has old WebView2 (PBL-9093)
Fixed issues:

  • People & Devices: notifications are not shown if webview2 was removed (PBL-9052)
  • "You haven't been online yet" text is cut in some localizations (PBL-9071)
 

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Release 18.2 beta 7 (4.70.1301):


New features:

  • Removed security cloud privacy policy link (PBL-9094)
  • Show WebView2 KB article link in network installer(PBL-9188)
Fixed issues:

  • Light mode: Subscription view title is hard to read (PBL-9199)
  • Notification about the device name is shown when you logout and log into as a non-admin user (PBL-9190)
 

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