BigPoppa44
join:2005-08-08
Washington, NC | PreEmpt2.0 from PIVX solutions
I would like to know is anyone else that visits this forum uses PreEmpt(2.0) which is an updated version of Qwik-Fix proactive windows hardening software. Would you give me your opinion of how you like it? |
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bcool
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The Ozarks
| I have PreEmpt 2.0 (upgraded from Qwik-Fix) and find it pretty nice to use. My technical understanding of how this utility works is not comprehensive. But so far as I can see, PreEmpt seems to do everything it purports in this blurb from PreEmpt's website: "PreEmpt is the first security application to utilize Active System Hardening which fundamentally changes the way Windows computers are secured. By blocking the underlying security vulnerabilities in Windows itself, PreEmpt closes the openings that attackers use to damage and hijack your computer. Traditional anti-virus and anti-spyware tools are only able to detect and clean up your PC after the damage has been done and your computer is hopelessly infected. PreEmpt prevents installed spyware and malware from being able to exploit your computer." --
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richtig
Music Is Emotion
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I would like to see some quantitative assessment of the threats which this tool prevents. It seems to me that what is being sold here is the expertise of the Pivx team in discovering problems in advance of there being a real 'threat in the wild'. Regardless, no product can truly protect against all threats, especially those not yet discovered. So...
"PreEmpt prevents installed spyware and malware from being able to exploit your computer."
...is a load of hogwash, IMHO!! 
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bcool
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richtig
Music Is Emotion
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clubs: | reply to BigPoppa44
Short review and discussion here:
»blog.ziffdavis.com/seltzer/archi···503.aspx |
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bcool
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| are you refering to this review?
"Is your system safe? You can find out quickly by testing it with one of many scanning programs. The beta of the new PreView from PivX covers all the important bases..." --
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richtig
Music Is Emotion
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clubs: | The review includes those words, but they hardly reflect the reviewers opinion. Context is important!! |
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bcool
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| The tone of his comments hadn't even dawned on me actually. Yes, context is important, isn't it. I was pointing out that this "review" seems to pertain to PreView whatever that is. I'm particularly interested in the PreEmpt version 2.0 utility since that's what I have installed on my system. I've sent an e-mail to their support staff basically asking the age old question, 'where's the beef?' Maybe they will even clarify here. 
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BigPoppa44
join:2005-08-08
Washington, NC | bcool, I have found PIVX email support to be very responsive. In all of my support emails(6-7) aking a variety of questions, PIVX has rarely taken over 24hrs to respond even though they say to give them 48hrs. |
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markwr99
@cox.net
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Short of a full blown commercial for PreEmpt 2.0 if you'd indulge this posting I’d like to help this group understand the significant features of this release and how the security framework and fix technologies add value to the security equation. We view PreEmpt as a piece of a 'Security in Depth' strategy that address the Desktop Intrusion segment of the security spectrum. Various strategies for protection are effective on different attack surfaces of the operating system. PreEmpt is aimed at system hardening and proactively addressing vulnerabilities at their root.
Here is a short list of new security framework technologies in PreEmpt 2.0 that i think you'll find interesting:
Real Time Alerts Triggered by Actual Attacks
One of the most significant changes in PreEmpt 2.0 is the addition of real-time attack detection. In addition to our core active system hardening, the new protection technologies introduced in PreEmpt 2.0 detect attacks that would have otherwise succeeded, and triggers both a visual alert and an alert recorded to system logs. Unlike signature based technologies - like Antivirus - that simply detect the presence of a sequence of bytes, which may or may not be a virus or network attack, PreEmpt 2.0 detects the actual attack and stops the intrusion immediately.
Ability to Repair Buffer Overflow
A “Buffer Overflow” is a common security problem which is intrinsic to all computer programs. Over the last several years Buffer Overflows have been a source of numerous Windows security vulnerabilities, and have been the root cause of many dangerous worms such as Blaster, Sasser, Slammer, and others.
PreEmpt 2.0 includes a new technology allowing PivX to repair buffer overflows in the absence of a patch or vendor provided solution. Traditional buffer overflow protection approaches by Microsoft and other vendors cause the targeted program to “crash” resulting in data loss, and ultimately reducing the effect of the buffer overflow to a Denial of Service attack. PreEmpt 2.0 removes the buffer overflow vulnerability completely without the traditional side effects.
Application Specific Virtualized Registry
A new technology featured in PreEmpt 2.0 creates “virtual registry sandboxes” for different applications. Almost the entire configuration of a windows system is contained in a database called the windows registry, which is shared between all of the applications on a system. This means that configuration changes which improve the security of Internet Explorer cause other applications to function incorrectly. By providing separate configurations of Windows for each application on a system PreEmpt 2.0 is able to enforce far greater security configurations for some applications without causing compatibility problems with others.
Advanced Fix Framework
PreEmpt 2.0 has been expanded to include support for many different classes of security fix. For instance, some fixes may be XML documents, others may be scripts, and others may be complete software components. This improvement will allow PivX to develop and deploy fixes more rapidly, increase the overall stability of the product, and more effectively improve user’s security. |
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bcool
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said by BigPoppa44  :bcool, I have found PIVX email support to be very responsive. In all of my support emails(6-7) aking a variety of questions, PIVX has rarely taken over 24hrs to respond even though they say to give them 48hrs. Apparently you are correct. 
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