Threatfire?!

Pietzki

Pietzki

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Hi all,

I recently found a program called threatfire, which is made by pctools (it used to be called cyberhawk before pctools bought it). It basically is an addition to your existing AV and can apparently work alongside it without causing conflicts. What it does is it monitors the behaviour of everything running on your pc and blocks it if it determines the behaviour to be malicious. There is a free version and a pro version, but the only difference is that the pro version includes an on demand signature scanner (pctools antivirus). I have read a few really good reviews, so I decided to install it. Has anybody here given it a try yet?

The only HIPS I found with better results in comparative reviews was softsphere's defensewall, but those reviews were old (from 2006 when it was still cyberhawk), and I somehow can't connect to the softsphere website, it just keeps timing out... Besides, I am not sure if that one is freeware.

Any opinions?
 
I wouldn't take it. Please consider the future happenings:
Paranoic tool, it sends you couple of reports when any change is made on your system, like you installed something with .exe as executable, and it will prompt you with questions allow, disallow, security threat blahblah...
I personally think it's not needed as long as you have a firewall and good AV.
 
GameMaster said:
I wouldn't take it. Please consider the future happenings:
Paranoic tool, it sends you couple of reports when any change is made on your system, like you installed something with .exe as executable, and it will prompt you with questions allow, disallow, security threat blahblah...
I personally think it's not needed as long as you have a firewall and good AV.
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hmmm, have you used it? because as far as I know it won't report just any change, but only ones that it finds to be malicious. I suppose I'll see over the next week or so...

anyone else?

EDIT: I just installed a new program and threatfire didn't give me any popups..so far, so good!
 
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Ok. Seems that you've installed it, why do you need any recommendations if you already have it? Try and you will know... the best.
 
I went and read a few reviews, and it sounds good - I'll give it a try when it's available for firefox. Having said that, it sounds more like an advanced spin-off on siteadvisor than a HIPS.
 
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