With version 15, features are constantly being removed. Do you plan to add different protection modules? Bring back key encryption. That was the most important feature for me. I don’t understand what the program is for anymore.
We have an idea on how to bring back keyboard encryption and we’re working on it. Yes, we plan to add more useful features soon. Thanks for your feedback. We just found nobody used registry protection at all and it used resources for no reason. Did you use that feature?
How did you guys come to this conclusion? When you say: “use less resources on your pc” Hopefully not just memory which any newer-ish pc has plenty of?
Wouldn’t it have been better to keep this option and instead let those that did not want to use it uncheck it in the settings if it was deemed to be a resoucehog in some systems?
This sounds a bit weird. How did you know that nobody used it? And I don’t see why it would use a lot of resources? SS Classic barely uses any resources and monitors a lot more than SS 15.
If you use modern Windows (11) the SpyShelter Classic version features don’t even work. That’s why we redesigned it the software to start over with modern Windows. Now we are working to bring back features as we can, but with Windows being redesigned it’s not trivial.
We make the Classic version available for download for older customers and we continue to support them, as we support you here. But even for older Windows versions a lot of the Classic features may appear to work, but don’t actually work anymore due to Windows updates over the years. That’s why we made a modern version of SpyShelter where all the features actually work.
For user feedback, we have an email list for testers and for people who purchase our software, plus we have this forum. I also operate the helpdesk myself and help people all day. It’s useful to get feedback with these different systems. Plus, we also design the software for ourselves and nobody on our team used this registry feature either.
For yourself, did you use this registry protection? If so, how did you use it? We want to understand more so we can improve.
Thanks for your feedback on the change, and sorry for the issue. If we found a lot of unhappy users who used this we could always bring back the feature, but we found nobody wants or uses the feature so now we are moving to add different more useful functionality.
If you had the feature on the alerts were mostly unbearable due to their frequency and the protection provided was minimal in our opinion. The registry settings also made SpyShelter more difficult to use and understand, along with using more resources.
We appreciate your feedback here and we hope others will chime in on this change so we can hear what everyone has to say. If we are mistaken in removing that functionality then of course we listen, then make other changes in the future.
Why are you guys remove the registry protection? I use it all the time. That’s weird my registry protection is always on. Can you guys inspect thoroughly the registry protection?
The thing is, if you think about it, SS 15 does offer a lot of the features that SS Classic offered. So far, the biggest missing features are protection against code injection and keylogging. I believe that it’s still possible to add protection against this stuff on Windows 11.
OK I see, I thought you guys were using telemetry or something.
It all depends on how it’s designed. Untrusted processes should not be able to modify certain registry keys like the ones monitored by AutoRuns. Normally speaking, it should not give many alerts if only certain registry keys are monitored. And it should also not use many resources, if designed properly. I assume SS 15 is not constantly polling for changes?
I’m somewhat bewildered by the removal of the registry protection module.
“the protection provided was minimal in our opinion” So, now it’s no protection.
I’m not sure how to answer “Did you use it?” In my custom protection mode, I have it set at moderate. So, in a strict sense, I am using it. Other than reacting to a registry involved event which hasn’t occurred, and hopefully never will, I’m not sure how else one could “use” it.
As for resources, I doubt for even the most economical PCs and laptops* made in the last decade or so could be adversely effected by the module. Do you have any data that supports any performance improvement by its removal? Other than maybe, “When the registry protection module is on, I can’t get Ultimate War Dudez III to run faster than 20 fps.”
“the alerts were mostly unbearable due to their frequency” Is this in reference to its behavior on only Win11 systems? If so, I’ll stick with 15.1.0.567 on my Win10 system, all the updates so far not offering compelling enough advantages. If the unbearable frequency is in context of both 10 and 11, I would wonder what the heck the user(s) are doing to their poor setups…
That said, registry protection module, or not, SpyShelter is a critical component in my protection strategy and will become even more so when Win10 goes EOL later this year.
*Of course, the 4 GB RAM, 64/128 GB eMMC “chromebook fighter” Win10 and 11 laptops in S-mode are excluded from this discussion. Though I am floored by how efficient they are for strictly MS 365 Suite operations and Edge browsing.
Perhaps, in my opinion, if there will be a feature that is to be removed, well maybe there’d be a poll or something or a thread so some opinions will be considered.
