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<blockquote data-quote="vtqhtr413" data-source="post: 744027" data-attributes="member: 65229"><p>Source: <a href="https://calendarofupdates.org/index.php?topic=770.645" target="_blank">VoodooShield v4 STABLE Thread</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>Dan posted this 6/23</p><p></p><p>Hey everyone... sorry, I have been wrapped up trying to figure out a very odd bug with the new self protection feature. In 4.29-4.33, if certain calls were made to the VoodooShieldService from VS, like if the user is trying to reset their whitelist or take an advanced snapshot, then VS would act up. It turns out, that we over protected VS and VoodooShieldService, and one of the Windows processes need to access it too. Anyway, now that we know what the issue is, our kernel developer will be able to fix it in a jiffy... but it is going to take a couple of days. So this version does not have self protection, but it will be fully implemented and fixed in the next version.</p><p></p><p>BTW, I noticed that sometimes when the user would right click to exit VS, it would spawn again, so I changed how VS starts with the service. I think it is fully fixed, but I will keep and eye on it, and if you guys notice anything odd, please let me know.</p><p></p><p>Also, in the silent security posture, VS will now flash if it blocks something silently... it will still not display a prompt though.</p><p></p><p>In the meantime, here is 4.34 with even more little refinements and enhancements. I am almost finished refining and enhancing VS, then I am going to...</p><p></p><p>1. Implement some really cool ideas on the moderate, relaxed and silent security postures. They are currently quite basic and not super protective... but there are tons of things I can do to make them even more secure and user-friendly.</p><p></p><p>2. Retrain VoodooAi. I have not retrained VoodooAi for 7-8 months because I have been busy with VS 4.0. But now that it is ready, it is time to focus on VoodooAi a little. I forgot the exact numbers, but I believe the current models where trained on training data sets of around 100,000 or so samples. We will now be able to include most or all of the blocked and scanned samples from the last 7-8 months that are now in the VoodooAi database... and there are tons of them... I am guessing around 1.5 million or so new, unique samples. These are not the number of VS blocks... these are the number of new, unique files that VS has encountered on the endpoints it is protecting, when a file is blocked or manually scanned.</p><p></p><p>VoodooAi's has the ability to be amazingly accurate and precise, but the end result is only as good as the training data sets... so I am excited to see the results once we include these samples during training. Then again, I have always been extremely happy with VoodooAi's results. If you download the top 100 files from download.com or softpedia and run them against VS / VoodooAi, you will quickly see my point. I actually downloaded all 100 samples a while back from download.com if anyone wants them <img src="https://calendarofupdates.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />. Anyway, the whole point of VoodooAi is to determine whether a file is safe or unsafe... it is not necessarily designed to determine the maliciousness of a file. So when you combine the blacklist scan with VoodooAi, it makes for a rather great combo. And besides, it is good to be different... that is what VS is all about <img src="https://calendarofupdates.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />.</p><p></p><p>3. Modernize the gui and possibly the desktop shield gadget / logo with the help of a graphic designer.</p><p></p><p>4. Anything else you guys can think of... I have some ideas too that I will run by you soon.</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.voodooshield.com/Download/InstallVoodooShield434.exe" target="_blank">https://www.voodooshield.com/Download/InstallVoodooShield434.exe</a></p><p></p><p>SHA256: c071256eef0ccb4bcb73dd08ca0ae9a8ab6d396538eaf962f2f932b64e2da795</p><p></p><p>Thank you guys, I will catch up soon!!!</p><p></p><p></p><p>BTW, I forgot to mention... hopefully the Check Update and other prompts will show on top of the VoodooShield Settings window... if not, there are a couple of other things I can do. It is just kind of difficult because the desktop shield gadget is TopMost, and the settings form is TopMost, then the prompts are TopMost... see where that can be tricky? <img src="https://calendarofupdates.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vtqhtr413, post: 744027, member: 65229"] Source: [URL="https://calendarofupdates.org/index.php?topic=770.645"]VoodooShield v4 STABLE Thread[/URL] Dan posted this 6/23 Hey everyone... sorry, I have been wrapped up trying to figure out a very odd bug with the new self protection feature. In 4.29-4.33, if certain calls were made to the VoodooShieldService from VS, like if the user is trying to reset their whitelist or take an advanced snapshot, then VS would act up. It turns out, that we over protected VS and VoodooShieldService, and one of the Windows processes need to access it too. Anyway, now that we know what the issue is, our kernel developer will be able to fix it in a jiffy... but it is going to take a couple of days. So this version does not have self protection, but it will be fully implemented and fixed in the next version. BTW, I noticed that sometimes when the user would right click to exit VS, it would spawn again, so I changed how VS starts with the service. I think it is fully fixed, but I will keep and eye on it, and if you guys notice anything odd, please let me know. Also, in the silent security posture, VS will now flash if it blocks something silently... it will still not display a prompt though. In the meantime, here is 4.34 with even more little refinements and enhancements. I am almost finished refining and enhancing VS, then I am going to... 1. Implement some really cool ideas on the moderate, relaxed and silent security postures. They are currently quite basic and not super protective... but there are tons of things I can do to make them even more secure and user-friendly. 2. Retrain VoodooAi. I have not retrained VoodooAi for 7-8 months because I have been busy with VS 4.0. But now that it is ready, it is time to focus on VoodooAi a little. I forgot the exact numbers, but I believe the current models where trained on training data sets of around 100,000 or so samples. We will now be able to include most or all of the blocked and scanned samples from the last 7-8 months that are now in the VoodooAi database... and there are tons of them... I am guessing around 1.5 million or so new, unique samples. These are not the number of VS blocks... these are the number of new, unique files that VS has encountered on the endpoints it is protecting, when a file is blocked or manually scanned. VoodooAi's has the ability to be amazingly accurate and precise, but the end result is only as good as the training data sets... so I am excited to see the results once we include these samples during training. Then again, I have always been extremely happy with VoodooAi's results. If you download the top 100 files from download.com or softpedia and run them against VS / VoodooAi, you will quickly see my point. I actually downloaded all 100 samples a while back from download.com if anyone wants them [IMG]https://calendarofupdates.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif[/IMG]. Anyway, the whole point of VoodooAi is to determine whether a file is safe or unsafe... it is not necessarily designed to determine the maliciousness of a file. So when you combine the blacklist scan with VoodooAi, it makes for a rather great combo. And besides, it is good to be different... that is what VS is all about [IMG]https://calendarofupdates.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif[/IMG]. 3. Modernize the gui and possibly the desktop shield gadget / logo with the help of a graphic designer. 4. Anything else you guys can think of... I have some ideas too that I will run by you soon. [URL]https://www.voodooshield.com/Download/InstallVoodooShield434.exe[/URL] SHA256: c071256eef0ccb4bcb73dd08ca0ae9a8ab6d396538eaf962f2f932b64e2da795 Thank you guys, I will catch up soon!!! BTW, I forgot to mention... hopefully the Check Update and other prompts will show on top of the VoodooShield Settings window... if not, there are a couple of other things I can do. It is just kind of difficult because the desktop shield gadget is TopMost, and the settings form is TopMost, then the prompts are TopMost... see where that can be tricky? [IMG]https://calendarofupdates.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif[/IMG]. [/QUOTE]
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