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<blockquote data-quote="cruelsister" data-source="post: 1080092" data-attributes="member: 7463">What is occurring with SpyShelter reminds me a great deal of another product, RansomOff. This product was at the time an excellent anti-ransom application but as such pretty much a One-Trick Pony.The developers (Helig Defense) considered this reliance on a single type of malware to be unacceptable (not commercially viable) and re-coded the application in an attempt to cover ALL types of malware. The result was a product that was essentially an anti-exe with alerted the user to just about everything- and an application that alerts to everything is devoid of any real value. Anyway, after about 6 months the company folded and Helig no longer exists.With SpyShelter, which was an excellent anti-keylogger, the new developers are treading along the same path to oblivion. The current product in its effort to be an all-around anti-malware application comes with 3 settings- The Low is much too permissive to be useful, the High mode is much too restrictive to be of real value, and the recommended Medium level, while being less restricted still yield a great deal of alerts while simultaneously being prone to allowing malware infection to occur. I personally found SS15 to be a bit poorer in detection that Malwarebytes but with substantially more FP’s.It is very difficult to create a product that is good enough to separate legitimate mechanisms from malicious ones; some, like WVSX succeed, others, like Ransomoff do not and are eventually consigned to the Dung Heap of failed ideas.Time will tell if SS makes it to a more Optimal level.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cruelsister, post: 1080092, member: 7463"] What is occurring with SpyShelter reminds me a great deal of another product, RansomOff. This product was at the time an excellent anti-ransom application but as such pretty much a One-Trick Pony. The developers (Helig Defense) considered this reliance on a single type of malware to be unacceptable (not commercially viable) and re-coded the application in an attempt to cover ALL types of malware. The result was a product that was essentially an anti-exe with alerted the user to just about everything- and an application that alerts to everything is devoid of any real value. Anyway, after about 6 months the company folded and Helig no longer exists. With SpyShelter, which was an excellent anti-keylogger, the new developers are treading along the same path to oblivion. The current product in its effort to be an all-around anti-malware application comes with 3 settings- The Low is much too permissive to be useful, the High mode is much too restrictive to be of real value, and the recommended Medium level, while being less restricted still yield a great deal of alerts while simultaneously being prone to allowing malware infection to occur. I personally found SS15 to be a bit poorer in detection that Malwarebytes but with substantially more FP’s. It is very difficult to create a product that is good enough to separate legitimate mechanisms from malicious ones; some, like WVSX succeed, others, like Ransomoff do not and are eventually consigned to the Dung Heap of failed ideas. Time will tell if SS makes it to a more Optimal level. [/QUOTE]

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