[Update] System Safety Monitor Free Edition 2.0.8.579

[Goeroeboeroe]

Homepage/download: http://www.syssafety.com/

Two updates in less than one day. Either they are unbelievable fast or
something went terribly wrong )

26.07.2006
System Safety Monitor 2.0.8.579 Free Edition hotfix
Bugs fixed:

* some memory leaks;

25.07.2006
System Safety Monitor 2.0.8.578 Free Edition was released
What's new:

* several language updates;
* third state of the "keep process in memory" option: "?" mark -
prompt user to restart application.


System Safety Monitor is a Host-based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS)
- the class of Security Software that protects MS Windows systems from
various malware and spyware programs by monitoring all running
programs' behavior and blocking malicious or suspicious actions. However
SSM is not an anti-virus software, i.e. it does not provide means to
find and to remove a particular malware program. Also it cannot be used
to recover system damages caused by such programs if they were allowed
to happen.

It provides you with protection against attacks that can bypass
traditional firewalls, anti-virus, and other signature based security
tools that can only deal with known threats already described in their
signature database. SSM controls an application behavior and its access
attempts to the local system resources according to the rules set by the
user. This way SSM can protect critical system processes or data from
both known and unknown threats. Being independent on timely signature
database updates SSM is a must to have software for the machines that
connect to the Internet just occasionally.

Malware and spyware programs basically use similar methods to do their
job (though the implementation details may vary).

SSM's main task is to discover and block malicious actions of any
application

Peter

 

[bassbag]

Homepage/download: http://www.syssafety.com/

Two updates in less than one day. Either they are unbelievable fast or
something went terribly wrong )

26.07.2006
System Safety Monitor 2.0.8.579 Free Edition hotfix
Bugs fixed:

* some memory leaks;

25.07.2006
System Safety Monitor 2.0.8.578 Free Edition was released
What's new:

* several language updates;
* third state of the "keep process in memory" option: "?" mark -
prompt user to restart application.


System Safety Monitor is a Host-based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS)
- the class of Security Software that protects MS Windows systems from
various malware and spyware programs by monitoring all running
programs' behavior and blocking malicious or suspicious actions. However
SSM is not an anti-virus software, i.e. it does not provide means to
find and to remove a particular malware program. Also it cannot be used
to recover system damages caused by such programs if they were allowed
to happen.

It provides you with protection against attacks that can bypass
traditional firewalls, anti-virus, and other signature based security
tools that can only deal with known threats already described in their
signature database. SSM controls an application behavior and its access
attempts to the local system resources according to the rules set by the
user. This way SSM can protect critical system processes or data from
both known and unknown threats. Being independent on timely signature
database updates SSM is a must to have software for the machines that
connect to the Internet just occasionally.

Malware and spyware programs basically use similar methods to do their
job (though the implementation details may vary).

SSM's main task is to discover and block malicious actions of any
application

Peter

They are unbelievably fast.If you find a bug and make them aware of it
its usually fixed within 2 days ive found.I was a registered user of SSM
before it became freeware ( i still use 98) and cant fault the guys for
speed regarding bug fixing.
me

 

[bMorphus]

Homepage/download: http://www.syssafety.com/

I can't find a list of features. Does it more or less do what
WinPatrol does? And what's the difference between the paid and free
versions?

bMorphus

 

[Goeroeboeroe]

I can't find a list of features. Does it more or less do what
WinPatrol does? And what's the difference between the paid and free
versions?

bMorphus

Hi Morphus,
I took this out of the helpfile, which is a bit out of date.

<helpfile>

Functional parts
System Safety Monitor consists of several functional parts which can be
enabled or disabled independently.

Process Monitor with Application Rules
Keeps track of the activity of all applications already started or being
started and allows you to control:

which application can be started;
which application can be started by a selected one (child processes);
which applications are allowed to start a selected one (parent
processes);
whether a selected application is allowed to start if it was modified;
whether a selected application is allowed to install a driver;
whether a selected application is allowed to perform code-injection or
DLL-injection.
With this subsystem you can:

create/terminate a process (application);
watch the list of modules(DLLs) loaded by a selected application.
Modules
This subsystem contains a set of modules which expand functionality of
the program. At the moment the modules provide tracking and blocking of
changes in the following system parts:

Windows Registry;
drivers and services;
INI-files;
Startup menu group (Start\All Programs\Startup);
MS Internet Explorer settings;
application's windows.

</helpfile>

They're going to change their site, and there's coming more info on it.
That's good because you're not the first to ask this )
As far as I know, but I'm not a developer, just translated it into
Dutch:

The free version was the same as the paid version until about two months
ago, so it's pretty complete.
The paid version works only on Windows 2000 or later, the free version
works on 98 and later.
New stuff is first implemented in the paid version, and a bit later in
the free version.
More and more new things won't be in the free version, because they need
2000 and newer.
It does much more than WinPatrol. You can say which program is allowed
to start what program, to load a special driver or any driver, etc.,
etc. It checks changes in programs.
The paid version has a pretty heavy registry monitor.
One thing WinPatrol has and SSM doesn't: watching for changes in file
associatons.

If you want to try it out you can try the free version, and decide later
if you want the paid version. But the free version offers a lot of
protection already.

Peter

 

[bMorphus]

I took this out of the helpfile

Thanks.
I'll spend a week or so in Amsterdam once the temperatures have
dropped a little.

bMorphus

 

[Aaron]

Homepage/download: http://www.syssafety.com/

Two updates in less than one day. Either they are unbelievable fast or
something went terribly wrong )

26.07.2006
System Safety Monitor 2.0.8.579 Free Edition hotfix
Bugs fixed:

* some memory leaks;

They rock!!! I love them. Next step up from Winpatrol if you are ready to
handle all the prompts.

 

[Goeroeboeroe]

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Something strange here. I installed the earlier free version SSM a
month ago but did not have the time to set it up. I just opened it and
had a dekko.

When I saw this announcement of the new free version I uninstalled the
SSM on my machine. Something had happened such that next time when I
booted, the system went on installing all the hardware once again and
then got the BSOD. This repeated several times and I could only start
in safe mode.

After very many tries I had to reinstall after formatting the boot
partition.

I am using ME now which was installed several months back with not one
BSOD till now. And I am sure it has nothing to do with ME as some may
suggest

Anyone else have similar experience?

If you really think this has something to do with SSM, I think you
should report it on their forums too. They're pretty fast with solving
problems or giving help, even in the free version.
http://www.syssafety.com/forum/
To post on the forum you have to register.

Peter

 

[Ardent]

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If you really think this has something to do with SSM, I think you
should report it on their forums too. They're pretty fast with solving
problems or giving help, even in the free version.
http://www.syssafety.com/forum/
To post on the forum you have to register.

I will do that, thanks for your response.