@danb :
You said :"because I wanted to make sure the user could kill VS". Could you give more details with an example ? I missed something.
Sure... development for VS was an extremely long and difficult process because we have a lot of usability features and other moving parts that proved difficult to get them to all work together nicely. Basically, we had a lot of bugs to work out because I was trying to add too much stuff
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During that time, I did not want bugs to lock up peoples computer, or cause blue screens of death, so I never added self-protection, so they could easily kill VS if things went wrong. But now that VS is stable, I can add self-protection.
I hope that makes sense, but if not, please let me know!
On a side note...
The funny thing about VS, that a lot of people are not aware of... when we started VS 6 years ago, it was myself and 2 other devs, and a few other people. We all thought it would be a 4-5 month proposition, and it would be smooth sailing from there. Well, I am still friends with all of those guys, but they all gave up very early on. It is ridiculous how much stuff is involved and how many obstacles you have to overcome, just to make your software available... especially in a highly crowded endpoint market where deny-by-default products have never succeeded, and application control is a dirty word.
So I had a choice... I could either give up like they did, or I could keep pushing on. The ONLY thing that kept me going was the positive response and encouragement that I received from the various malware forums. When people say how much the "love" VS, it makes it all worth it, especially when it is extremely uncommon for anyone to use the L word when describing their security product.
And for that, I am eternally grateful to all of you guys.
If anyone watches the show Silicon Valley on HBO... that is not a comedy, it is a documentary
. I am telling you... everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong. The struggles and obstacles were seemingly impossible. But now we are in the clear, and I am happy that members of the security community encouraged me to stick with it. So thank you guys!!! And this goes without saying, thank you to the wilders guys and wilderssecurity as well!!!