Hi everyone,
I’m curious to hear how you combine SpyShelter with other security software. Any tips, tricks, or experiences you’d like to share would be great! Now I have installed Kaspersky.
Looking forward to your insights.
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I use SpyShelter to keep tabs on what new executables are launching from new or unsigned publishers. But one thing I learned is that sometimes certain publishers can forget to sign some executables… Recently this happened with Intel actually. I uploaded the executable to VirusTotal to check it and it was OK, but Intel had a software update where one of their executables wasn’t signed at all.
I don’t download random items, but by not allowing unsigned executables to automatically launch it can protect you from many types of malware.
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@SpyShelterCarl You mentioned that unsigned Intel update. How did you determine it was safe? Is checking it on VirusTotal enough? I’d love to learn some safer practices myself.
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SS15 pretty much handles what it’s supposed to under my custom security settings and rules. I get the occasional alerts when updating the slew of the more arcane unsigned utilities I use.
But a day or two doesn’t go by without checking events to make sure Windows Security updates is smoothly running. A quick look at everything else, too, of course.
I have MpCMdRun.exe -SignatureUpdate (which you can run in cmd or PowerShell) to run every hour in Task Scheduler as account System. Been doing that since Security Essentials in Win7 where it would simply update the sigs but now triggers to update the processes and files determined by the stub.
I believe this is as good as or better than the Cloud-delivered protection setting. And definitely more private. As that command line to push updates is still documented by Microsoft, it’s good for Win11, too.
I run my every-day Win10 Pro system from about 9:30 AM to about 10:00 PM, give or take a half hour or so. There are generally four updates during my daily uptime in the MST zone. Rarely there is one or none; the record I’ve seen is seven. Just a few days ago there were six.
If the stub alerts timing looks funny, I’ll check protection updates in Settings or go to
Antimalware updates change log - Microsoft Security Intelligence.
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Actually, I could never fully determine it was safe and I figured it was a mistake by Intel, so I denied it. VirusTotal did show it was safe, but I have seen that sometimes they will say something is safe and later it isn’t.
I worried that by denying it I might have some kind of problem with my hardware but it seems OK so far…
Many thanks for your reply. @SpyShelterCarl
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I’m still using SpyShelter 12 on Windows 10. But I use it to monitor app behavior, so if I see suspicious behavior then I block it. I also use the network monitor to see which apps are connecting to the internet.
And SS 12 offers keystroke encryption, handy against keyloggers. The new SpyShelter 15 is sadly enough missing a few features, because of limitations on Windows 11. Hopefully, developers will figure out how to add these features.
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Yes, I also hope we can add the missing items in the future! Thanks for your feedback!
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So just as a reminder, this is the stuff that SS 15 is missing:
1 Network monitor
2 Protection against code injection
3 Keystroke encryption
4 Anti screengrabbing per app/process
5 Out of the box protection against infostealers (folder protection)
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