Advice Request What's the difference between SpyShelter Premium vs SpyShelter Firewall vs SpyShelter Silent?

[ng4ever]

What is the differences ? Which is the best one ?

Sorry for a stupid question.

I tried finding a chart that listed the differences but couldn't find one.

 

[davisd]

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[shmu26]

Firewall edition is not a replacement for Windows firewall, but it works on top of it, giving you control over every network connection that processes make. This edition also gives you application execution control, which is an excellent hybrid of anti-exe and HIPS, most effective if you run the program in "Ask user" mode.
If you are looking to have proper control over what happens on your system, the Firewall edition is it.

 

[Fuzzfas]

Firewall edition is not a replacement for Windows firewall, but it works on top of it, giving you control over every network connection that processes make. This edition also gives you application execution control, which is an excellent hybrid of anti-exe and HIPS, most effective if you run the program in "Ask user" mode.
If you are looking to have proper control over what happens on your system, the Firewall edition is it.

So the firewall is a front end to the Windows firewall? And there i was thinking that someone made a true, new firewall...

 

[shmu26]

So the firewall is a front end to the Windows firewall? And there i was thinking that someone made a true, new firewall...

Yes, it is a front end. SpyShelter Firewall does much more than just providing a front end for Windows Firewall, of course. But I haven't used the program recently. @ichito is in a better position to provide accurate info.

 

[ForgottenSeer 823865]

So the firewall is a front end to the Windows firewall? And there i was thinking that someone made a true, new firewall...

Spyshelter isn't new, it is a decade old already. But it is still the the most efficient HIPS on the market with a very well made process logger.
If you want a, serious true firewall, you will find it on corporate solutions, mot much on home ones.

 

[Fuzzfas]

Spyshelter isn't new, it is a decade old already. But it is still the the most efficient HIPS on the market with a very well made process logger.
If you want a, serious true firewall, you will find it on corporate solutions, mot much on home ones.

I know Spyshelter, i just didn't follow up on it ever since they stopped the free version. That free version didn't have the firewall available. I don't need a serious firewall, i don't run a corporation, i have a router and Tinywall and i am sure hackers that will pass those won't waste their time with me, but i always liked 3rd party software firewalls. Thanks.

 

[ForgottenSeer 823865]

Anyway, since win7, windows firewall didn't changed much and is quite decent.
About Tinywall, I tested the lasted v3 betas, supposed to be a full-fledged one unlike v2 but it had to many issue to my liking.
So I stay with naked Windows Firewall where I create my own rules manually.

 

[ichito]

I know Spyshelter, i just didn't follow up on it ever since they stopped the free version. That free version didn't have the firewall available. I don't need a serious firewall, i don't run a corporation, i have a router and Tinywall and i am sure hackers that will pass those won't waste their time with me, but i always liked 3rd party software firewalls. Thanks.

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According to firewall feature - yes, we can call SS's firewall as front end of SFW but not so exactly because SS is using its own and independent low-level driver called SpyShelterWFP.sys. It allows to manage network rules basing on WFP filters but in own another way - rules of System FW are not imported to SSFW and vice versa so we can disable that first one.

 

[Zorro]

It allows to manage network rules basing on WFP filters but in own another way - rules of System FW are not imported to SSFW and vice versa so we can disable that first one.

If the user does not disable the system firewall, then during an outgoing connection of any program, the rules of which firewall will take precedence - the Windows firewall or SpyShelter firewall?

 

[ichito]

It looks that SpyShelter's rules are over the rules of System FW but the real network behaviour of installed/working processes depends on:
- chosen protection level and by this way on automaticaly allowed action
- what action we want/need to allow automaticaly (list of monitored action)
- what we allow in Rules Tab
As I remember there is a lot of whitelisted apps and vendors on builtin list in SpyShelter so perhaps every of them could make in/out connection so it's better to have some controll in this matter. Some useful info you can find in this post

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[Zorro]

It looks that SpyShelter's rules are over the rules of System FW

Is it verified? For example, simplewall firewall, like SpyShelter, uses the Windows Filtering Platform to filter traffic, and the instructions for simplewall read “Simplewall works through WFP (Windows Filtering Platform) capabilities. The simplewall firewall does not change the configuration of the Windows firewall, but the Windows firewall filters have more high priority and processed first. " Although the mechanism of SpyShelter may somehow be implemented differently. Therefore, I asked about the priority: was the Windows firewall and the SpyShelter firewall checked, which of them had priority in connection processing? Just using the Windows firewall you can control some connections that cannot be controlled in the SpyShelter firewall, for example, the thin control svchost.exe. or control of Windows services.
For example, in the logs, I see that the Windows firewall is blocking the outgoing connection for a specific svchost.exe process, or for the Windows service, which I blocked access to the Internet, but in the spyshelter firewall logs I see that this particular svchost.exe process was allowed to connect to or that the service blocked in the Windows firewall received automatic permission to access the Internet in the spyshelter firewall logs. So did this svchost.exe or a service get access to the Internet or not? Depends on which firewall has priority. That's interesting, who has priority.

 

[ichito]

No...I haven't checked it personaly. SS is not (in its idea) to block/close/hide ports....it's designed to controll apps/processes behaviour according to predefinied and manualy created network rules. According to such description

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and help file you can create your own granular application rules and modyfi/create your own firewall zones.