This latest d7x Alpha “TestBuild” replaces the “d7IIx Alpha” versions opened to all d7II subscribers in March. We believe this release can be tested with confidence in a production environment, provided you keep d7II with you as a backup. d7x Alpha is designed to sit beside d7II in the same folder, and maintains backwards compatibility with d7II configurations and active d7II session data (temporary files and settings specific to d7II and the current repair process) so […]
Sept 26th, 2017 Update: Yesterday this appeared on Bleeping Computer: Avast Publishes Full List of Companies Affected by CCleaner Second-Stage Malware https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/avast-publishes-full-list-of-companies-affected-by-ccleaner-second-stage-malware/ Bleeping also put out a nice article from the 22nd, containing a nice summary if you’re just catching up on the news (because of course more has emerged since our last update, and we shouldn’t just assume you read it elsewhere): Info on CCleaner Infections Lost Due To Malware Server Running Out of Disk Space […]
Foolish Tech Show 09/19/2017 has been posted to our YouTube channel!
If you missed the show from today (09/19/2017) or just want to review it again, we’ve got it edited and posted to our YouTube channel! On this episode we go over some of the security issues going around right now and Nick spends a good chunk of time going over the latest updates to d7x. *Spoiler Alert It’s ready for production usage* d7II can be used as a backup fallback still* d7x Manual (Alpha Release […]
Server downtime scheduled at 18:00 UTC 2017-07-13
Our web host has also informed us of scheduled maintenance in the server region affecting our servers (Website, Downloads, IRC), which is expected to last anywhere from a 15 minutes to two hours beginning at 18:00 UTC on July 13th, 2017 (or 2pm Eastern Time for us…) What is affected: The CryptoPrevent, d7II, and d7x/d7IIx Alpha software and definition update servers, as well as the main Foolish IT download servers, and website will be affected, as well as […]
v8.0.4.2 (June 3rd, 2017) Major improvements in Memory usage across all executables (CryptoPrevent.exe, CryptoPreventMonSvc.exe, CryptoPreventNotification.exe), memory usage will decrease over time for the real-time as well as less usage on initial launches. Corrected an issue where White-Label Creator was not updating the CryptoPrevent.exe launcher file in the includes folder which is used to create installers (you can delete this file and then re-open the WL Creator to force an update now) SRP Whitelist is now sorted […]
Server downtime scheduled at 10pm UTC tonight.
Our web host has also informed us of scheduled maintenance in the server region affecting CryptoPrevent licensing, d7II licensing, d7 and d7II cloud sharing servers, which is expected to last anywhere from a 15 minutes to two hours beginning at 10pm UTC (or 6pm Eastern Time for us…) What is affected: Installation and license activation for CryptoPrevent (including individual and bulk/white-label deployments) are affected, as well as some services for our d7II technician software. d7II based services affected […]
v8.0.4.1 (June 1st, 2017) Fixed graphical issue where verifying settings might not disappear on first run of application Added additional HoneyPot Detection Rules Added changes to HoneyPot Detection rules that may cause false positives Added fix for possible issue with HoneyPot Detection not being able to verify current HoneyPot files Possible fix for issues with CLI options possibly not starting services as expected Fixed QuickAccess Notification Tray to update on the fly with protection changes […]
v8.0.4.0 (May 24th, 2017) Fixed graphical issue with policy numbers applied being shown in the policy editor Added additional email settings CLI /emailusername=”user@addy.com” /emailsamesendtofromaddy or use the following together: /emailfromaddy=”user@addy.com” /emailsendtoaddy=”user@addy.com” /emailpassword=”password” /emailserver=”serverAddress” /emailport=”portNumber” /emailauthenable (Add =0 to disable) /emailstarttlsenable (Add =0 to disable) /emailsslenable (Add =0 to disable) /clientemailid=”Client ID to be added to Email Subject” /emaillocksettings (Add =0 to disable) Only applies to Bulk or White-Label Editions d7x Rule Variables now add environment […]
v8.0.3.9 (May 19th, 2017) Major performance increase when apply protections from the command line and from the GUI Corrected issues with Windows 8-10 Scaling DPI changes could still cause problems if defined manually and not with the scaling in Windows Windows XP-7 will still get warning Corrected minor interface issue Issue resulted in some changes in 8.0.3.8 Unable to read tabs, but still clickable GUI subtabs looked step sided/pushed to the right some Applied to […]
v8.0.3.8 (May 19th, 2017) Added an alert for Windows XP-7 to inform of high DPI setting and recommend lowering it while applying protections Windows 8 & 10 do not get the alert but the interface is usable with only slight visual issues on increased scaling settings Youtube video going over how to change DPI settings can be found here: https://youtu.be/biuNjFnoqPI Removed a couple rules for HoneyPot Detection that could cause false positives with some file types […]
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