VoodooShield VS AppGuard

[509322]

i had Yandex added into guarded apps and it constantly blocked writing memory to its other browser.exe processes
i had a hangouts 3rd party app blocked constantly even after adding it to either user space or guarded apps and set to not block.
i had PUBG broken fully while having it added to whatever list and set to leave alone.
etc etc.

Block events in the Activity Report are to be ignored unless something is obviously broken. If you attempted to configure AppGuard policy such that there would be 0 block events in the Activity Report for trusted programs, then I understand where "blocks" might have been a concern. AppGuard protects the system by harmlessly blocking even trusted programs from doing things that they should not be permitted to do in the first place. 99.9999 % of block events in the Activity Report are logged events that show AppGuard's protections at work and cause no issues. In 20 years, there has only been a single registry block that caused an issue. On the same token, only a single MemoryGuard block caused a program breakage.

• Blocking Yandex from writing to the browser.exe memory is MemoryGuard protecting browser.exe.
• If you add any process to User Space and set it to NO, then it will not be blocked from launching. However, dependent upon the process and what it does, block events for it will still appear in the Activity Report.
• Any program added to the Guarded Apps list is not blocked from launching, but it is run with limited privileges and will be prevented from writing to protected areas of the registry, protected file system, and memory of other processes. The user has the option of disabling those protection from the dropdown menus, but there has never been a report that such as thing was required to fix a breakage.
• I am not familiar with PUBG, but the same principles as above would apply to it.

We have many customers that use both Yandex and Hangouts without issue. So I am curious as to exactly what occurred on your test system.

 

[Deleted member 178]

I favoritize Appguard because i have half a decade of experience with it, never failed me, not once. I use it to lock my system and it does exactly what i expected it to do.
I know what i'm doing, my AG's policy is one of the tightest possible, and i can use my machine without fear of anything (legit or not) running without my consent.
That is the power of SRP and why corporations use that model to lock workstations.

 

[Andytay70]

I like both so its difficult to choose.....sorry!

 

[mekelek]

Block events in the Activity Report are to be ignored unless something is obviously broken. If you attempted to configure AppGuard policy such that there would be 0 block events in the Activity Report for trusted programs, then I understand where "blocks" might have been a concern. AppGuard protects the system by harmlessly blocking even trusted programs from doing things that they should not be permitted to do in the first place. 99.9999 % of block events in the Activity Report are logged events that show AppGuard's protections at work and cause no issues. In 20 years, there has only been a single registry block that caused an issue. On the same token, only a single MemoryGuard block caused a program breakage.

• Blocking Yandex from writing to the browser.exe memory is MemoryGuard protecting browser.exe.
• If you add any process to User Space and set it to NO, then it will not be blocked from launching. However, dependent upon the process and what it does, block events for it will still appear in the Activity Report.
• Any program added to the Guarded Apps list is not blocked from launching, but it is run with limited privileges and will be prevented from writing to protected areas of the registry, protected file system, and memory of other processes. The user has the option of disabling those protection from the dropdown menus, but there has never been a report that such as thing was required to fix a breakage.
• I am not familiar with PUBG, but the same principles as above would apply to it.

We have many customers that use both Yandex and Hangouts without issue. So I am curious as to exactly what occurred on your test system.

it wasn't Hangouts, it's a 3rd party hangouts application called yakyak.
I was being bothered by the enormous amount of block reports, so i just got rid of it.

 

[MikeV]

I prefer VoodooShield as it is very easy to use plus it gives more information with virus total report.

 

[Andy Ful]

...
The learning curve is as about as difficult as this... if my 93 year-old grandmother can use AppGuard, then anybody can. And no, I didn't go to her house and input an anti-NSA\CIA policy nor did I spend an entire weekend instructing her on how to use the product. She runs the default Protected mode policy and hasn't had any issues from day 1 of it being installed on the system. Good grief... a ninety-some year old lady can figure out what security soft geeks cannot.

Your grandmother is not a MalwareTips member, for sure.
My 84 year-old father, can use Comodo Firewall + Sandboxie + Shadowdefender (on boot). Why? He uses computer locked down by me, and he does not install new programs. Many inexperienced users can be happy with default deny security.

 

[509322]

Your grandmother is not a MalwareTips member, for sure.
My 84 year-old father, can use Comodo Firewall + Sandboxie + Shadowdefender (on boot). Why? He uses computer locked down by me, and he does not install new programs. Many inexperienced users can be happy with default deny security.

Contrary to what others state, she could use it after a brief explanation. It's not like she never installed software or never configured it. She figured it out. Maybe she is just smarter than the rest of us.

 

[Andy Ful]

Contrary to what others state, she could use it after a brief explanation. It's not like she never installed software or never configured it. She figured it out. Maybe she is just smarter than the rest of us.

You are very lucky to have some genes inherited from her.
Default Deny gene, among some others.

 

[danb]

Appguard is a solid protection program which is not something i can say for VS. Only thing you need to consider though is that appguard will block things and it doesn't ask if you want to allow before it blocks.

Please elaborate .

 

[Solarlynx]

I choose AG, of course. It gives versatile protection. VS as antiexec covers only the bottleneck. Though both apps are really great and reliable.