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<blockquote data-quote="cruelsister" data-source="post: 1052904" data-attributes="member: 7463">Although this is a very interesting application, I personally wouldn&#039;t suggest it as either primary or secondary protection as it suffers from far too many flaws. With regard to ransomware, utilizing the program with default rules in place one will notice that although certain&nbsp; items in the Documents folder are protected (as long as one ONLY has certain file types- like doc, docx, xls, etc- essentially those things set in the protection rule), other items not in the rule will be trashed. A further issue will occur if an added rule for txt files is added. Although protection will be afforded for these items, I noticed HIPS-like warnings when installing legitimate applications that will throw out txt files during installation.Also file types in other locations will not be protected, so at default everything in the Pictures , Video, and Music folders will be encrypted&#039; even more of a pain is stuff on the Desktop are toast.As to other malware forms, although most Scriptor Worms are prevented (along with their persistence mechanisms), other are not. Malware utilizing Powershell are detected and prevented, but once again there are issues with valid applications that use Powershell- warnings will also appear here making it difficult to decide what is malicious and what is benign.DLL side loading and straight dropping with persistence were also seen to be problematic as was the creation of malicious services.So although I did a quite cursory test, it was enough to determine that iDefender is a sub-optimal choice for protection against malware.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cruelsister, post: 1052904, member: 7463"] Although this is a very interesting application, I personally wouldn't suggest it as either primary or secondary protection as it suffers from far too many flaws. With regard to ransomware, utilizing the program with default rules in place one will notice that although certain items in the Documents folder are protected (as long as one ONLY has certain file types- like doc, docx, xls, etc- essentially those things set in the protection rule), other items not in the rule will be trashed. A further issue will occur if an added rule for txt files is added. Although protection will be afforded for these items, I noticed HIPS-like warnings when installing legitimate applications that will throw out txt files during installation. Also file types in other locations will not be protected, so at default everything in the Pictures , Video, and Music folders will be encrypted' even more of a pain is stuff on the Desktop are toast. As to other malware forms, although most Scriptor Worms are prevented (along with their persistence mechanisms), other are not. Malware utilizing Powershell are detected and prevented, but once again there are issues with valid applications that use Powershell- warnings will also appear here making it difficult to decide what is malicious and what is benign. DLL side loading and straight dropping with persistence were also seen to be problematic as was the creation of malicious services. So although I did a quite cursory test, it was enough to determine that iDefender is a sub-optimal choice for protection against malware. [/QUOTE]

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