Re: Abtrusion - Anyone use this?
From: Bogus (Bogusname_at_Privacy.net)
Date: 03/26/04
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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:01:55 -0500
"*Vanguard*" <no-email@post-reply-in-newsgroup.invalid> wrote in message
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Abtrusion lets you control what is allowed to run on your system. No, it's
not permissions stuff. I already run an anti-virus scanner to monitor
incoming traffic and to check if something tries to run that is already on
my system that is infected. However, until the anti-virus program schedules
its next up update, my system is vulnerable (although that is not long
hopefully since I let it perform automatic updates). It also takes time to
detect that a virus is on the loose, to determine how to identify it, and
possibly to kill it, all of which lengthens the window of opportunity.
Abtrusion takes the tack of preventing anything from running unless allowed.
I think there is another product called something like System Safety Net
(not sure about the name).
I'm interested but wonder about the following:
- How much do these products get in the way of using your computer?
- How much do they slow down opening programs (i.e., what's the impact on
how snappy your applications startup)?
I tried abtrusion for a while; left it for this program that worked better
for me.
http://maxcomputing.narod.ru/ssme.html
Each of them had a slight impact - abtrusion had a heavy start-up time, but
little action after that. SSM will popup whenever it comes across something
new, or if something changes, or if something is reaching beyond its space.
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