VoodooShield

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Minęło sporo czasu od ostatniego tu wpisu, ale to nie znaczy, że program się nie rozwija ...wręcz przeciwnie Dan cały czas wypuszcza kolejne wersje, które obejmują poprawki jakiś większych bugów czy tylko specyficznych błędów zgłaszanych przez pojedynczych użytkowników. Wykrystalizowała się też nowa wersja ze zgłaszanymi wcześniej do wprowadzenia modułem "Web Apps", a ponadto wciąż trwają prace nad modułem piaskownicy.
Najnowszy build to 2.33 beta.

I think we are good to go, hopefully all of the bugs are worked out. Well, except I saw one small but where Windows 8.1 blocked a rundll32.exe out of the blue, it will be an easy fix, I just have to run it awhile on that machine to figure out where that was coming from.

The new sandboxing feature is not quite ready, but it is very close. Actually, it is probably best to introduce that after 2.0 is completely stable anyway.

There are a lot of new feature in this version. I was thinking about moving the Web Apps out of settings, and making it a stand alone form / window... i have a lot of ideas on how we can expand this a little more and make it a little more user friendly.

This 2.33 version is not completely tested, but it did run for 7-8 on my main development machine (windows 7 x64) without any issues at all, so i think we are good to go. I will check out that small 8.1 bug tomorrow and finish up the new sandboxing feature.

I made a lot of changes to optimize the startup of VS (mainly for TH and Baldrick, you know how those WSA guys are ), so hopefully the first start up of VS (after installing and rebooting) will work well, and we will not have any issues like "VoodooShield Service is not running, blah, blah, blah". But it will be super easy to fix if there are any issues. And you can always start the service manually, then launch VS from the desktop icon until all of the bugs are completely worked out.

Thanks again!

Kilka dni wcześniej tak pisał o nowościach

I think it is close, I just have to do some more testing.

BTW, there are a few new features in the new version, since I had plenty of time while the C++ guy was working on the silent blocking issue. It turns out that the silent blocking issue could not be fixed in the C++ code, but I think I found a way to fix it in the gui. So far it is working well with Vista and above, I just have to figure out how to fix it in XP.

One of the new settings is a tab in Settings called Web Apps that automatically detects any app that communicates with the internet, so the user can choose whether to toggle VS in smart mode with each of the web apps. I wanted to keep all of the web apps customizable, so there is a list of the detected web apps on the left, and you just click on one of them to add it to one of the text boxes on the right. Then if you remove one of the web apps on the right, it then appears in the detected web apps list. It is working pretty well, but I just have to figure out when VS should detect new web apps, because we do not want to peg the CPU, but then again, we want all of the web apps to be detected.

There is also a Custom Blocked Folders option that is just like Custom Allowed folders, except obviously everything is blocked in these folders.

There is no longer a 14 day trial... VS 2.0 is basically a feature limited non-commercial free edition, so VS is free to home users. We do not want to limit the features too much, so we will see what everyone thinks about the features that are limited in the free version, and we can easy make adjustments.

Most of the buttons on the Utility tab in settings are working now, and the web server now accepts the hash variable. There is still a little more work to do here, but not too much.

I am also working on a Sandbox feature, although this feature is not quite ready yet (it is close). The idea is that if VS is OFF, there will be an option to run the non-whitelisted sandboxed, at least initially. There are several ways we can implement this, so I wanted to see what you guys thought. One idea... we can have a setting that basically is "Automatically Sandbox all non-whitelisted items when VS is OFF". Then after VS blocks something, and after the blacklist scan, there will be a checkbox option on the user prompt that says "Automatically Sandbox all non-whitelisted items when VS is OFF". The other idea is to either have buttons for Allowing Sandboxed, or a drop down menu (on the prompt). We can also have a right click option "Sandbox". We can also have a secondary prompt that asks the user if they want to run the new item sandboxed or not (and explain a little about sandboxing to the user on the prompt). I will be interested in everyone''s ideas on how we should implement this. I think the key is to make it simple enough for the average user to understand, since most average users or novices have not heard of sandboxing.

So that is where we are! I will test the silent blocking fix some more today and tonight, and if it is still doing well, I will post the new version soon! Thank you!

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