SECURITY OVERFLOW

Introduction With the release of Vista, many home users are certainly wondering if the migration from XP to Vista is absolutely necessary.As claims the VOX POPULI : "Vista is an evolution, not a revolution".Hardening the system makes XP as secure as Vista.Since...

The greater part of these products have already been linked in the previous article.Therefore, only products that have not been listed yet are linked. As it often changes (freewares become paid), only paid softwares with or without a free limited versions...

Intrusion detection is a large subject, and concerns mostly organizations.It's also important to note that IDS are supplanted by IPS/NIPS. Therefore we'll focus here only on IDS available for home users and Windows systems. First of all, the user must...

I've quite finished the methodology. I've decided to choose a real-life infection approach; and consequently, it means more time for searching malwares and less time for blogging... In the first part of the methodology, the self-protection is tested (process,...

I'm looking for volunteers for testing HIPS white list such as DefenseWall, GesWall, AntiExecutable and PrevX (as Zorro PC Protector is in french language only, then i've choosed it for the test). The volunteers (2 per product is enough) must: -have an...

Other similar products These products monitors some system's area like the registry in order to detect malwares behaviours. They're not integrated (for most of them) at the core of the system (kernel) and then do not operate at a low level: except for...

AN OVERVIEW OF PERSONAL DESKTOP/HOST INTRUSION PREVENTION SYSTEMS We have seen previously that a line defense with only a firewall and an antivirus is not enough in consideration of the evolution of threats.Products are available to palliate scanners...

In this first article we’ll just show that the couple scanner (antivirus/antitrojan/antispyware) + Firewall is not sufficient to mitigate security risks for home users. Then we'll review and list available Desktop/Host Intrusion Prevention Systems designed...

In a previous article, we've reviewed some free integrity checkers. On this article, we'll focus in advanced ones (paid for most of them). Integrity checking for change detection is an important feature for security softwares, especially in intrusion...

AbuseShield " Globesoft AbuseShield" is a comprehensive tool for monitoring and controlling your desktop or server environments so that only the software you specify can run. AbuseShield also monitor file system activities.This means that even if you,...