Archives for: June 2006
SoundrelSimulator
SoundrelSimulator is a simulator of certain virus activities, such as changing browser homepage, adding auto-start application and etc.
GeSWall successfully prevented all attack probes by redirecting registry access and denying files creation in a star… more »
Posted in GeSWall's Security Tests
BANG! -- Crash on Demand Utility
This OSR tool loads a kernel driver and crashes and reboots the computer in 1sec.
“You say the drivers you develop aren't doing a good enough job of crashing your system and you need a way to force a system crash? Here's that way: BANG! Run BANG.EX… more »
Posted in GeSWall's Security Tests, Rootkits
Weaknesses of AV Solutions
av-comparatives.org project reported the evaluation results of 16 leading AV products.
Proactive detection against 8,745 pieces of modified malware:
- 12 out of 16 products did not recognized even half of test pieces
- the best result is 58%
On-d… more »
Posted in General
GeSWall Blocks Martin’s Undetectable Keylogger
Martin’s Keylogger is a passive keylogger or better to say key listener.
It polls the keyboard queue state in a loop and takes the keys pressed at poll snapshot. While this keylogger may not recognize a letter’s case and misses keys pressed too fast, i… more »
Posted in GeSWall's Security Tests
GeSWall Personal Edition 2.3 is out
The new version is more stable and faster. It has improved application rules engine to meet the performance, extended logging, enhanced support of the Microsoft Office Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Now GeSWall blocks silent passive key loggers, e.… more »
Posted in Announces
I set ‘Do not ask again’ check box, how to start the applications as non-isolated?
There are two options. First, you may restart chosen isolated application as non-isolated by caption context menu.
Note, restart is required because an isolated application can not be merely switched to non-isolated state without security breach.
S… more »
Posted in FAQ