Defendos Security - Official Thread

[l0calh0st]

The memory usage is 27MB, still 50% lesser than Dropbox and Malwarebytes. The CPU usage is 0%.

And yes it needs to be running in background.

l0calh0st Reviewed by l0calh0st on 3rd Aug 2012. Defendos Security - Official Thread Introduction Welcome to the official Defendos thread. All questions can be posted here in this thread. Screenshot http://defendos.com/images/screen.png http://i.imgur.com/DUr1n.png Notes Rating: 5

[MediaStar]

this is better then MSE?

[weena]

this is better then MSE?

No its not

[l0calh0st]

Thanks for your reply Hyperz.

Well Ive added a Hosts Customizer function so the user can insert his own custom hosts rules. It saves that info locally and appends the Defendos signatures after every update.

The main purpose of this app is that it prevents users to get their system infected (ofcourse not all). Its not something like a realtime scanner. Even better, if the hosts file gets injected by a virus it won't affect long term because everytime you enable/disable/update/restart Defendos takes a fresh copy of the hosts file and patches again.

Hope that its a bit clear now

Thanks

[Hyperz]

Even better, if the hosts file gets injected by a virus it won't affect long term because everytime you enable/disable/update/restart Defendos takes a fresh copy of the hosts file and patches again.

Just be aware that if a virus depends on the hosts file the do its thing it'll most likely prevent anything else from writing to it. Especially if it took refuge in the kernel which will be the case for most viruses/trojans.

Anyway, good luck with it. One suggestion I'd give you is to make the app send the hosts file to your server so you can scan it there and perhaps detect if something is preventing your app from writing to it or scanning for known phishing IP's etc. Second suggestion, make categories for blockable hosts. That way, like buddah suggested, users can choose to block specific ad sites or even things like DRM-related domains for not-so-legally-obtained-games.

[l0calh0st]

I need to think about that. It already blocks bad ads but not all.