How to add self-protection to software lacking of it?

_CyberGhosT_

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BTW, I am totally unfamiliar with the whole "like" button thing.

I did not want to start liking posts, in fear of people being upset if I did not have the chance to like their post.

Please do not get me wrong, I LOVE the whole like button concept, but you get what I mean ;).
It's all good, we know it is hard to teach an old dog new tricks :p lol
 

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Thanks @danb for creating voodooshield and your tannaciousness sticking with it! I love to read how things have become , the way the are right now.....thanks for sharing the insight view. I also love the fact that you are doing the upmost best to take the critiques and feedback everyone sends you and incorporate them into the next releases. Keep up the great work brother!
 

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This is a question that has kept me up some nights. The answer apparently is Microsoft. All processes starting from the standard Program Files folders are protected.

But you could also schedule a task that gets triggered when a program stops for example restart that security app or lock down your machine or disconnect from the Internet. Of course if someone can mess with your Task scheduler, all hope is lost. :p
 

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This is a question that has kept me up some nights. The answer apparently is Microsoft. All processes starting from the standard Program Files folders are protected.

But you could also schedule a task that gets triggered when a program stops for example restart that security app or lock down your machine or disconnect from the Internet. Of course if someone can mess with your Task scheduler, all hope is lost. :p
If they unload your driver that will not help. ;)
 

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It is ridiculously easy to paralyze a security app or prevent it from launching at system startup. All you need is another app, even a totally legit one, that conflicts with it.
So I don't place too much faith in "self-protect" mechanisms.
 

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I found a few programs that will restart processes that close, get killed or crash intentionally or unintentionally.
8 Tools to Automatically Restart a Crashed or Closed Application • Raymond.CC

Highly recommend Restart on Crash from that list as that is the one I am using. You just add the programs that you want to keep alive and it will revive them automatically. Now if you really want to double down on this, you get another program from that list to protect the program that revives your security programs. :)

Edit: This comes at a cost to your CPU. Around 0.5% of constant CPU usage because the programs will monitor your programs to ensure they are still running every 0.5 sec. I guess it could be much lower if you increase the interval but to me the savings are negligent.
 
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