HIPS (Host based Intrusion Prevention System)

General Topics
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Six HIPS programs reviewed and rated here: http://www.techsupportalert.com/security_HIPS.htm

Traditional antivirus solutions cannot protect you until after they’ve discovered a new threat and produced a signature to counter it.
HIPS tools are different because they don’t rely on signatures, but instead constantly analyze your computer’s behavior to detect and block any malicious activity.

HIPS products on the market… (freeware and shareware):

AbuseShield
Abtrusion Protector
All-Seeing Eye
Anti exe
AntiHook
AppDefend
Blink
Coreforce
Cyberhawk
DefenseWall
DSA
Geek SuperHero
NeovaGuard
Online Armor
Ossurance Desktop
Prevx1
ProcessGuard
Prosecurity
RegRun
SafePC
Safe’n’Sec
SoftClan Integrity
SecuriTask
System Safety Monitor (SSM)
Trust-No-Exe
ViGuard
WinPatrol
Winpooch

2

Some very good Info about HIPS Tech
http://forumprog.free.fr/GS_7ece3a084a93ef65562dcf7acb1baf5a.png

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One should not forget sandbox type of hips. They are the easiest to use.
I am not sure, but defensewall was the only one tested.

I like Sandboxie very much. Does not matter to me that it has not a fancy interface. It just works well. Plus it is free.
Will see how much that nag screen will bother me after those 30 days are gone.

EDIT:
After reading this thread, Defensewall was the only sandbox missed in the last test by gizmo.
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=154501

Anyways, Sandboxie did well in that test.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/security_virtualization.htm