This Software seems to be causing real trouble for some user's. They say the program is slowing down your pc badly, some programs are unable to work properly, or slow down in a bad way, and so on. 3 of 4 users on this page say: don't install it, or you will get a lot of troble, even in the latest version!!!
http://bloghouse.org/de/verungl_ckter_test_mit_bufferzone

M  –  16 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+65)

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You have stated "this version will be valid for 6 months and is provided with any updates and support for this period!". Does that mean that after 6 months this gotd version of BufferZone would:-

1) neither work, nor receive update nor receive support

OR

2) after 6 months this gotd version(i.e. BufferZone) would work but not be eligible for update or support?

Please clarify

Ramesh  –  16 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+62)

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If you're running Vista or higher with decent security software, this is unnecessary and their trojan demo is fake scareware.

Firefox users will claim that Firefox is safer, but IE8 with IE DEP, UAC, and Protected Mode actually operates at a higher security level. Protected Mode is similar to a sandbox.
IE 8 Beta 2 security test. Note the usual bias. They counted vulnerabilities in all versions of IE over two years, but only counted those in Firefox over six months. Note that they say that all IE8 processes run virtualized on Vista and higher.
Secunia 2008 Report (PDF). Note the number of vulnerabilities by browser in 2008 on page 11, figure 3. Note that IE 5, 6, and 7 were lumped together.

I tried their trojan demo on Vista, running from IE8's download prompt, as well as downloading first and running independently. It can't do anything without your permission. I ran from an Administrator account, without giving it explicit administrator privileges. Guess what? Its own logs show that Vista, even without other security software, blocks most of it. Nothing else was launched, nothing else was terminated, access to system files and processes was blocked. After termination, Vista will tell you that the trojan demo needs Administrator Privileges, which obviously you should never grant to unknown processes. It tells you that it sent your filenames out, but that's a lie. My security software clearly indicates that it didn't communicate over the Internet in any way. It locally reads your filenames. So what? Unless you click Attack Results, no Internet communication has occurred via any method. If you click that, your security software will block it (if you have decent security software). They tell you to explicitly allow the trojan demo Internet access. Why would you allow an unknown program or process Internet access? Like I said, it can't do squat without your permission.

As for BufferZone itself, any virtualization/sandboxing type utility will interfere with your security software, which normally can't see into virtual environments. That may leave you vulnerable to some types of attacks, such as screen capture.

Fubar  –  16 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+62)

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@20 - Fubar. The infoworld article on browser security talks only about discovered vulnerabilities (how many). The Secunia document more correctly looks at how many vulnerabilities are unpatched - and for how long they have remain unpatched (or those that were 'fixed' - how many days it took either Microsoft or Mozilla to address).

On one hand if the two browsers each have 50 and 100 vulnerabilities - you might think that the '50' is safer, until you discover that 30 of those 50 have no patch available - and haven't for almost a year. The browser with 100 discovered issues - has had 98 of them patched and addressed - and none of them took longer than 20 days from discovery to the release of a fix.

...and of course we can only compare vulnerabilities that have been made public.

(Off topic? no! That's my Christmas tangent)

BuBBy  –  16 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+50)

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After installing there is a readme-file in the install-folder

It contains following Warning:BufferZone should NOT be installed while any of the following applications exist on the computer:

1) Advanced AntiKeyLogger
2) Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2005 together with SpySweeper 4.0
3) Safe'n'Sec personal 2.0
4) SmartSignOn
5) System Safety Monitor
6) Panda Webadmin
7) A-Squared anti-malware

Funkster  –  16 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+44)

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