Publisher's Description
From Blue Ridge Networks:
Safely use Facebook, open documents and media files from friends (or hackers), insert any USB thumbdrive, click on Email attachments, or visit any website. If anything should be malicious, AppGuard blocks it, without relying on virus definitions, error prone heuristics, or confusing user-prompts. Install AppGuard on a PC with or without Anti-Virus/spyware. AppGuard can triple your protection from your anti-virus/spyware alone, which only blocks about 20% of malware code less than a week old. Botnets alter their malware code at least every 10 minutes, and retire each variant within 48 hours, so that the PDF or video you think came from a friend cannot be identified by your anti-virus/spyware.
What's new in this version: MemoryGuard blocks inter-process code injection attacks, MBRGuard blocks master boot record attacks, including rootkits, InstallGuard prevents unauthorized software installations, Parental Controls that override kids with local admin rights, a re-engineered graphic user interface.
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"A Better Approach to Computer Protection."
Version: AppGuard 3.0.13
Pros
Surf, Search, Shop, and Bank Online Safely
Harmlessly Open Email Attachments and Internet downloads
Play videos and games without Fear
Use Facebook and other Social Media free of Malware Infestations
Insert USB Thumb drives without concern of infection
Run Out-of-Date Software Applications Despite Vulnerabilities
Know that Your Family Photos and other valuable content are safeCons
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AppGuard is for people that realize their traditional or legacy antivirus is only effective for traditional cyber attacks (i.e., old malware). Adding AppGuard protects you even when no virus signature/definition exists because AppGuard does not use signatures to protect you.
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"Not an AV.."
Version: AppGuard 3.0.13
Pros
Blocks stuff really good including exploit-based memory-resident 'malware' droppers.
Cons
There is a common misconception this is an AV replacement. It only does part of what a modern-day AV HIPS does. Install it on an infected machine, or let a working-software binary-binded malware past it, and it's a 'malware' protector.
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The reality is all software vendors practically ignore internet chatter unless it affects THEIR bottom lines, which forum posts and reviews&comments rarely do, so saying if it had a breach-entry and real-time ARK it'd have an tremendous edge in AV+ARK realms is unlikely to influence anything unless I'm some form of investor.
SIDE NOTE: I find humor as a software engineer and veteran security-researcher, that security solutions like this and Sandboxie hook/detour/underprivlage most syscalls on a platform, but still get logic-bombed out of with a single call to LoadLibraryA and VirtualProtectEX by VB and .NET 'malware' written by children(literally in most cases), which you can use from D.O.D. grade privileges in any process. What's sad is stealth methods that worked on them 3 years ago work today, but the authors and end-users have officially labeled it 'not a hole'.
Tell that to the 'malware' authors who are using it ^^
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