Dan is talking about a new product over at COU. It would be a cut down version of VS and be something similar to VS on autopilot. He is asking for suggestions. Originally was named Crapshield.
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- Apr 9, 2017
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Actually no april fools. I remember Dan mentioning to me something like this..
I actually feel VS Free is too functional, that he should have a 'Lite' version for free, then a 'Pro' version for people that want the real meat and potatoes. Completely different product, and the lite one would drive traffic to purchasing the free. My opinion from a business perspective..
I actually feel VS Free is too functional, that he should have a 'Lite' version for free, then a 'Pro' version for people that want the real meat and potatoes. Completely different product, and the lite one would drive traffic to purchasing the free. My opinion from a business perspective..
- Aug 17, 2017
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From Dan, VoodooShield Dev.
Real quick... I have been thinking about developing a new product and I wanted to get everyone’s opinion. It really would not be too much different from VS on AutoPilot, except there would not be a desktop shield gadget, and most of the VS settings, toggling and modes would be removed. It would resemble some of Next-Gen ML/Ai products, except it would include some of the rules and algos that VS utilizes while on AutoPilot.
See, our new custom VoodooAi engine is almost ready, which we will be implementing into VS soon. It will no longer rely on Azure or IBM Waston. So I was thinking that we could quickly and easily build a new product and call it “VoodooShield Silent”. It actually would not take that long at all. Last October I created something very similar to this, and it only took 4-5 hours to strip out all of the settings and extra code from VS, to create this product. I called the product “CrapGuard”, and even registered the domain name back then. Although the name fit the product… since it guards your computer from crap, I didn’t think that was very professional, so then I was thinking VoodooShield Silent might be a better name.
Then I was thinking that some users would believe it is as secure as VS is, and use it instead of VS, when in fact it will not be as secure, so I never released it. As everyone knows, I am a true believer in locking the computer when it is at risk, simply because this is when almost all attacks occur… and not locking the computer when it is at risk is simply taking an uncalculated risk.
This product would be targeted mainly towards SMB and Enterprise customers, whereas VS is targeted toward consumers, SMB and Enterprise customers. Basically, every web connected device should be locked when it is at risk.
So anyway, I wanted to get everyone’s opinion, to see if you guys would think a product like this would be useful. Right now, I am 50/50 on whether to build and release something like this or not. It would only take 5 or so hours to strip out all of the code from a copy of VS. And actually, with CrapGuard, once I stripped out all of the code, it was rock solid, since most of the complex code was removed. It will be even easier this time since VS 4.25 is stable.
Then again, it would not be that different from simply running VS on AutoPilot, so I cannot decided, and would appreciate everyone's opinion. So what do you guys think?
Thank you guys!
Source: VoodooShield v4 STABLE Thread
Real quick... I have been thinking about developing a new product and I wanted to get everyone’s opinion. It really would not be too much different from VS on AutoPilot, except there would not be a desktop shield gadget, and most of the VS settings, toggling and modes would be removed. It would resemble some of Next-Gen ML/Ai products, except it would include some of the rules and algos that VS utilizes while on AutoPilot.
See, our new custom VoodooAi engine is almost ready, which we will be implementing into VS soon. It will no longer rely on Azure or IBM Waston. So I was thinking that we could quickly and easily build a new product and call it “VoodooShield Silent”. It actually would not take that long at all. Last October I created something very similar to this, and it only took 4-5 hours to strip out all of the settings and extra code from VS, to create this product. I called the product “CrapGuard”, and even registered the domain name back then. Although the name fit the product… since it guards your computer from crap, I didn’t think that was very professional, so then I was thinking VoodooShield Silent might be a better name.
Then I was thinking that some users would believe it is as secure as VS is, and use it instead of VS, when in fact it will not be as secure, so I never released it. As everyone knows, I am a true believer in locking the computer when it is at risk, simply because this is when almost all attacks occur… and not locking the computer when it is at risk is simply taking an uncalculated risk.
This product would be targeted mainly towards SMB and Enterprise customers, whereas VS is targeted toward consumers, SMB and Enterprise customers. Basically, every web connected device should be locked when it is at risk.
So anyway, I wanted to get everyone’s opinion, to see if you guys would think a product like this would be useful. Right now, I am 50/50 on whether to build and release something like this or not. It would only take 5 or so hours to strip out all of the code from a copy of VS. And actually, with CrapGuard, once I stripped out all of the code, it was rock solid, since most of the complex code was removed. It will be even easier this time since VS 4.25 is stable.
Then again, it would not be that different from simply running VS on AutoPilot, so I cannot decided, and would appreciate everyone's opinion. So what do you guys think?
Thank you guys!
Source: VoodooShield v4 STABLE Thread
- Mar 13, 2016
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Hear hear. Maybe he changes strategy when his central management module for the corporate market is ready, that could be the moment to release a friendly-silent version for home users (and continue the paid as PRO)
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