Startup Defender 1.5.9.9Comments on:

By: Herb

Herb — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:02:00 +0000

For those of you commenting on the aloud / allowed…

I agree …

my take:

“it’s the education system”

it has been for many years and I’ve been saying that for many years

either that or it was just an honest mistake in proofreading (benefit of the doubt)

Herb

By: Whiterabbit aka Stephen

Whiterabbit aka Stephen — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:44:52 +0000

I decided to install this despite some of the excellent advice above as I seem to remember being pleased with it the first time I installed it. However since yesterdays installation I’ve had several blue screen crashes; so deleted the program this morning when I first booted up and got another blue screen. Since then it’s been okay.

If anyone else has been getting BSOD’s (Blue Screen of Death) since installing Startup defender, it could be this program that’s causing it.

By: Fubar

Fubar — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:42:04 +0000

If you have the full version of AnVir, in addition to startup monitoring, startup control, services control, and everything else, it has startup delay, startup guard (auto-remove), blocked processes (auto-terminate), run as service, etc. By the way, they just released version 5.3, but unfortunately, they don't have any version history or help for it yet. I noticed that the tray icons are more informative, the system menu enhancement kills IE7 (at least on Vista), and they added an XP/Vista Tweaker, which I haven't tried because my System Restore is broken (I might try it via Returnil). #61, Shellyddd, make sure you have the latest version of CallingID, and try their support if necessary (via email or the forum). It looks interesting, but I'm not going to try it because of their privacy policy (I use TrendProtect).

By: F A B Scott

F A B Scott — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:50:42 +0000

#32. I said: “msconfig is recommended for troubleshooting only and not to be used as a general purpose startup utility these days” – of course,as we all know, it CAN be used for disabling/enabling startup programs but most of the top security help forums advise against it nowadays.

By: D.W

D.W — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:54:51 +0000

Even Ccleaner allows you to disable programs from starting up, as well as delete them.

Completely unneccessary.

By: Paul Grenfell

Paul Grenfell — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:08:02 +0000

Wow! 74 votes and 13 comments in less than 48 minutes. Some real serious software testing going on out there; I think not!

Comment by Tezzaw — October 17th, 2008 at 3:51 am

Mate , i agree.. I have watched the “Yes” “No” votes for some time , and i am convinced someone is manipulating the outcome significantly.

By: CB

CB — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:42:28 +0000

Thanks everyone for the good info. Come to GAOTD for the programs but only after read comments as to how people have found it working. Really appreciate the alternatives offered as would never have thought to look and on dial up, a single Google takes 20 minutes.

Don’t know if going to install this one since noticed The Ads by Google “Having a problem uninstalling Defender …..”

By: Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:37:45 +0000

I’d rather use MSconfig, together with Windows Defender and HiJackThis to control my startup. Plus, with Windows Defender, hidden processes can also be eliminated (which are probably viruses like global.exe) which don’t show up in Task Manager or tasklist. But if all else fails, I use a trial of Kaspersky Internet Security 2009/v8. And some viruses or processes do not run in startup the usual way, some run with that shell startup (which I forgot) registry key.

By: Pottery

Pottery — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:20:36 +0000

I would think this is the type o program that has to be installed with a fresh install of Windows? Otherwise . . . .

By: Belgian Dude

Belgian Dude — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:31:06 +0000

Christina #20, I gave your comment thumbs up for a simple reason.
Namely you called it.

Phil (see comments 21 and 31) has proven in the past just how much his tech certification means. After all wasn’t he the bloke that thought that RAM could mean something different then Random Access Memory.
LOL

Writing down numbers to keep track of stuff? The sad thing is that he means it.

Phil wrote :”I’ve never been fond of programs that “Kill” startup programs, especially if one’s not computer savvy.”
In other words because he doesn’t know that he’s doing he isn’t fond of it.

If a program helps you make you computer behave and stay safe then it is most likely a good thing unless you have another program running that full fills the same function. This because it can cause more harm then good. E.g.: have more then one anti-virus program running doesn’t mean that you will be more protected.

This program “Startup Defender” is not only a dime a dozen program it is even worse because of it’s very limited scope. There a lot of programs, freeware, that give a far better level of protection (e.g. Spyware Terminator) against programs installing themselves and not only in the startup folder.

On top of that you can use the free tools that you can find here
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb795533.aspx
to see what “autoruns”. Additionally there you can also find the good taskmanager replacement Process Explorer which gives you far better control and lots more info over any running process.

Unless of course you are a real certified tech of the Phil kind, and his fan club, who thinks the above mentioned tools on Microsoft Technet is for wimps and you are far better of counting and writing down numbers.

*STARE*