Hello

When SSM starts, it tells me that my licence is limited by usage period and will expire in 10 days.

When I open SSM, and I go in "Information", I have :
- registered to Giveawayoftheday
- License type : Home unlimited (site) license
- License count : 1
- Expiration date : 19/07/2007.

Is it to say that the software won't work after this date ?

I like it. Thanks

Fantastic offer!!! Thanks!

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Thanks for your advice!

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System Safety Monitor, version 2.3.0.612 released.

(2007-01-29)

What's new:
- Several language updates;

Fixed bugs:
- SSM password verification problem;
- SSM crash on startup with some configs;
- minor GUI fixes.

You can update using the updates feature within your program.

If you read down this far congratulations
a Hostbased Intrusion Protection System (HIPS) isnt something you just "pickup" especially one this powerful. And while ProcessGuard (which I used for many years) has an easier interface and intuitive nature, this is an actively developed and supported product. (whereas thats debatable with PG) While you may not be eligible for factory support with this promotion there is a larger number of users at wilders security forums that would be happy to help.

Ice Czar

You can also update using the updates feature within your program.

System Safety Monitor 2.3.0 build 611 was released

What's new:
* Several language updates;

Fixed bugs:
* several critical driver bugs causing occasional BSODs;
* SSM crash on startup in some environments;
* clicking "Help" in the "Options"-tab froze SSM;
* minor GUI fixes and improvements.

NOTE: GAoD license is accepted for this update.

Download now: http://dl1.syssafety.com/download/ssm-2.3.exe

#93 Noel WROTE:
"Say, this thing sucks! Asks a lot of questions, worse than ZoneAlarm! what sort of antivirus is this? Zero day protection or all day harassment?
Comment by Noel — January 25, 2007 @ 5:26 am "

Noel, I think you are confused. This program is NOT an Antivirus program. It's a process monitor. And it is NOT a firewall, as several people have already pointed out. Naturally it asks questions, it's supposed to, it is alerting you to activity, and you are supposed to train it or click learning mode. Perhaps you need a little computer class or so, and then you will understand how it operates. Or study a bit on your own. If you are unwilling to learn, or just don't care, then maybe the program is just not for you. That's fine. If you are knowledgeable and say it sucks, that's fine as well, but if you don't even understand what it is, then say it sucks, that is not very useful.

It's like if someone were talking about vehicles, and someone brought out a helicopter and one person pointed at the helicopter and scoffed at it and was saying Hahah, Look at that stupid thing! What kind of CAR is that! It doesn't even have any wheels!

Say, this thing sucks! Asks a lot of questions, worse than ZoneAlarm! what sort of antivirus is this? Zero day protection or all day harassment?

Thanks for the explaining HIPS to me, Rohn!

#44 Linda WROTE: Seems like the last couple of giveaways are only for a trial period and not for keeps
Comment by linda collins — January 23, 2007 @ 12:31 pm

#79 William WROTE: I just installed and it said it has a 30 day license. I activated first. What’s wrong?
Comment by William — January 23, 2007 @ 10:44 pm


All of the programs here come with a secret "EYE-DETECTOR" that tells if the user's eye has read the instructions or not. The detector knows. Once one or both of your eyes has come in contact with each and every letter in the README.TXT file, then the program will tend to work for you. Especially if you do what it says in there, too. ;)


Linda: None have been a trial. All have been fully registered programs.

William: Reboot. It's not a trial version. It's fully registered. (Only 'updates' expire after 6 months, the program -and its popup rules- continue to operate)




(Speaking of alerts, By the way, that AtGuard firewall that I talked about above had the popups just like this program, and would detect activities and come up and ask you what you'd like to do. For example "Another computer on your network is trying to access your C-Drive using windows filesharing, Allow it?" And it would tell you the port (139) and the source, and the destination, and you could tell it to block it just this once, or forever, or allow that source but only on that port, or allow things only to a specific port, like port 80, from all sites, but dont let them contact any of your other ports, etc. And it had a learning mode where it would help you with less popups. And it came with pre-set rules already in it for common programs, so that most of it was already set ok. So it had settings for beginners, moderate, and experts. And this was 5 years ago. But anyway, that is lost to Symantec and destroyed forever now. )


And a NOTE to everyone. Don't be afraid to try out new things and learn. And the way you can try things and not worry about ever ruining anything is you can get a thing called VIRTUAL PC. It makes a little software pc inside your real pc. It boots up a little 2nd version of a pc with windows inside its own little window within your regular REAL Windows pc. So it has its own little C-Drive and bluesky green grass wallpaper and a MyDocuments and even a CD and a floppy icon, etc. And you can test things on it. Load anything you want in there and see what it does. And if it ever messes up, you just take its "software hard disk" and dump it into the trash, and make it create another one. All fresh. You could even have XP on your real computer and run 98 on the little Virtual PC and see how things run in it. Since you are essentially running 2 or more pc's at a time, its best if you have a little bit better faster pc if you are going to run this, but if you do, try it. It's pretty good. There's also VMWARE as well.

VIRTUAL PC:
Info on it HERE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_PC
Download HERE: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6D58729D-DFA8-40BF-AFAF-20BCB7F01CD1&displaylang=en

It's from microsoft. And its free! :)

Thank

REGARDING ACTIVATION SERIAL #:

#30 L. Veeraraghaven WROTE: Thanks a lot but unfortunately all the keys I pasted on Registration are fejected as invalid. Could you help
Comment by L.Veeraraghavan — January 23, 2007 @ 9:08 am

#33 Ronald Laven WROTE: Did something wrong. Activation code (key) did not work. Tried all at once, and then each group alone.
Comment by Ronald Laven — January 23, 2007 @ 9:47 am

#70 JOHN W Wrote: I got the message invalide activation key when I entered it!
Comment by John W — January 23, 2007 @ 7:10 pm

#71 John W WROTE: I got the message invalide activation key when I entered it! This was 4 System Safety Monitor
Comment by John W — January 23, 2007 @ 7:10 pm


--- It works everyone. It's just that it's one big long serial number. It's giant! It's not multiple 'rows' of individual ones. It's the WHOLE THING. And also, it's not just the rows you see visible in the top part of the box, there's MORE. If you scroll down in that popup dialog box in the ACTIVATE.EXE program that tells you the sn, there are More lines of serial number in there. You just have to copy it all. All at once. Try that.


#11 BEN WROTE: I thought it was kinda funny how the serial number was like 500 numbers long!!!
Comment by Ben — January 23, 2007 @ 4:24 am

YESSss.. It's ridiculously lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng. When you say 500 numbers, you aren't exaggerating by much. That's longer than some unix keys and blowfish encryption keys. lol.

#49 Very Sh*t Programme. It damaged my whole PC!!! Absolute waste of time!!! Since some days GOTD offers more and more useless Progrs. Sorry to say!
Comment by SHit happens — January 23, 2007 @ 1:00 pm

Uhm... It doesn't 'damage' your whole pc, mate. All you need to do is right click on the green "s" icon near your clock and exit the program and it will no longer be in effect. If you can't do that much, just boot up with F8 key held down and boot in Windows SAFE MODE and take it out of your startups with MSCONFIG (click START button, RUN... type MSCONFIG, go to startups tab, or if you have Windows 2000 which does not have MSCONFIG, just download "Windows Startup Inspector" (free program just google for it). Nothin's ruined, mate. Just take your time, simply disable it and turn it off. and You'll be fine.

#63 ANONYMOUS WROTE: "Is this program compatable with any of the Norton’s Anti Virus,
Norton Internet Security programs, etc?
Comment by Anonymous — January 23, 2007 @ 4:22 pm

No, because AFTER you DELETE SYMANTEC NORTON, you will have no compatibility problems with your computer. :))
hahaha. Hint: Delete that SYMANTEC NORTON piece of... junk. Do you know, that Symantec themselves actually came out with a NORTON REMOVER utility? Yes, it deletes and removes all pieces of Symantec Norton AV, Symantec Norton Internet Security, etc. That tells you something about Symantec Norton Products. (Actually NORTON products used to be good, Until SYMANTEC took them over and bought the original company out. Peter Norton was a real guy, and made the awesome original Norton utilities which could undelete files and really helped people. But Symantec RUINS every product they touch. They did the same thing with ATGUARD firewall, they bought it, renamed it "Norton Firewall", and now it's crippled compared to what AtGuard used to do. Symantec did the same thing with GHOST. Ghost used to be its own company, then went to Powerquest. Symantec bought it from Powerquest and ruined it. Ghost 10 can't even perform real clone image backups anymore. 9 did. So NEVER BUY SYMANTEC NORTON ANTIVIRUS and don't install it or run it. Delete it.

Quote from Symantec:
"The Norton Removal Tool uninstalls all Norton 2007/2006/2005/2004/2003 products from your computer."

And it is available HERE!---> http://www.symantec.com/symnrt

Then install what some of the other people here are saying. AVG antivirus, or Bitdefender, or Avast for your Antivirus, and Spybot or AVG for Antispyware, and one of the free Rootkit detectors I listed above, and if you dont have a hardware router/firewall, then you can get Sygate free version for a firewall, or Outpost free version firewall. I havent tested Comodo recently but it seems promising as well, with some limitations. Kerio Personal Firewall is also good. ... AtGuard was cool. Too bad that one is lost. :(



#65 JESSE WROTE: If i were you and i had norton as my antivirus/firewall then i would just get rid of norton and get free anti-virus/firewall. Personally i think norton is the worst. ...
Comment by JesseB — January 23, 2007 @ 5:34 pm

You got that right, Jesse. I'm with you on that one. :)

#60, Site Seer you probably don't know but the task manager in xp does not show all running processes. Try wintasks once, you would be surprised at how many processes that are running that don't show in the task manager.

Didn't care for this one. Program wanted to take too much control of my system.

I've tried installing this program twice with no positive results. The program asks for you to reboot after putting in the license key; once the system reboots, nothing comes up; no continued install, nothing. Am I doing something wrong here?

Cant even download. When I try to save or open either from direct or mirror site, it says "the compressed(zipped) folder is invalid or corrupt

I tried a bit of this program and got tired of all those popup windows (don't want to think so hard tonight, haha) so I closed it down, but one thing to watch out for - don't necessarily follow those recommendations in the popup boxes as to whether or not to block a process. Some of them may be necessary. I suspect that many of the above complainers just blindly did what the program suggested and that's why their computers went haywire.

This software looks like a take-off on ProcessGuard, which I have installed on all of my systems; I purchased the multi-license from DiamondCS when I decided to install ProcessGuard permanently, after much testing. From what I see after reading at the website, ProcessGuard is a much better program and isn't as complicated to install or use as System Safety Monitor that is offered here today. I'm going to pass on this software, as I already own ProcessGuard and think I have the best available software installed on my systems.

I just installed and it said it has a 30 day license. I activated first. What's wrong?

# 22, regarding ME, my sister has Windows 98, so yes, some people use older software. If you're not being sarcastic, maybe you should offer to donate your older software when you upgrade.

Can't this be installed without "using" it so some of the other software could be tried?

This one might be too technical for me...I have CA Antivirus and Firewall through my Roadrunner service...I think it does similar stuff. Thanks anyways!

#73 here is a 2 cent definition

HIPS = Host based Intrusion Protection System
- Host = "PC" based rather than specialized Hardware
- Intrusion Protection = "next generation" firewall or "smart" firewall
- goes beyond looking a web address (like firewalls do) to inspecting and understanding the traffic itself so that it can recognize "bad stuff"
- detailed Wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusion-prevention_system

Haven't tried the software yet.

It seems that I won't need this SW, because I have already Zone Alarm Firewall, Norton Antivirus, and Spyware Doctor. Thank's.

Desinstalei-o,o abrir janelas para deixar ou nao deixar,fechar ou nao fechar é uma constante.Que chatice.

Ok, I'm not sure this program is for me... after all I don't even know what HIPS is. I already have anti-virus, firewall & adware/spyware programs. Do I really need whatever this software does?

Thanks for your advice!

Thanks for the replies agreeing with me that I shouldn't try this one because I'm not a techie.

While we're discussing firewalls, is Sygate considered a good one? I use it and it seems to catch lots of stuff.

I got the message invalide activation key when I entered it! This was 4 System Safety Monitor

I got the message invalide activation key when I entered it!

If you want a real security software that is free, get comodo firewall. It's free and really good(better than zonealarm). There are leak tests to prove that. To get comodo goto http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/ and register to get a free lifetime license.

It has keylog blocker and i use that with my kids so im not installing

A great download with all the safety concerns these days. Thanks for another valuable tool.

#63 If i were you and i had norton as my antivirus/firewall then i would just get rid of norton and get free anti-virus/firewall. Personally i think norton is the worst.

Anyways...

I havent downloaded this software yet but i will and if it doesn't work i need to redo my computer neway :)

OMG i ned another firewall

people, it's not the program that messes with the computer, it's you using the program wrong that causes the problems.

#37: You remove the link after one bad program? Sad! First, learn to use the program and then you can say it's bad. And what about all the other programs you've installed and (still) use? Are the bad too? Keep the link, support future progs and only install those you need. If you don't need them, don't bother to install and don't get into trouble.

#49: Useless for you don't mean useless for everyone!!

@ GOTD: Thanks for the effort of giving us free progs. There are still people that appreciate your work!

Greetz

Is this program compatable with any of the Norton's Anti Virus,
Norton Internet Security programs, etc?

To all the people here giving this program a bad rating or saying that this program is worthless or whatever. A small hint to: If you guys are too stupid to use the program then it's not the programs fault, it's the fault of your small brain :-) Lol

I will try this tool but i do not know if it is going to be usefull to me because i am looking for tool to improve the safety of my pc.

Still, thank you for this one, it is worth trying.


Carpe Diem
Lyon

Anyone nervous about this program but still wanting something similar might want to check out the free version. Yes, there's a freeware version of this very program developed by the same company and the subscription doesn't expire after 6 months. (In this version offered on GOTD the software itself will still work after 6 months, it's just that you will not be able to update its subscription after that ...similar to the subscription process used by anti-virus programs.) There's less features in the freeware version but it's not as intense for newbies.

To check it out just goto their site, https://www.syssafety.com and read about the features of the freeware version. If you want it go back to the original page and click on the green 'Download Free' link.

A few more thoughts ...if you already have an up-to-date anti-virus program, and up-to-date spyware/adware program, and have used a rootkit revealer and fixed any results then you probably don't need this program. It's basically a process monitor, but you can view your running processes at any time by just hiting CTRL+ALT+DEL and then click the processes tab. Just like with this program, you do need to know what you're doing before disabling any processes through End Task on Windows.

This is exceptionally good piece of software. If it is installed on a newbies system you can control his access. Great

All of these big BUNDLE security programs are un-needed and bad for most system resources... All you need is a good free and top rated firewall, (Comodo) virus protection, (Antivir personal edition) and an optional anti-Spyware.(Cyberhawk or Spyware Terminator) A GOOD firewall and anti-virus software will alert any user to potential problems if the user knows how to RESPOND to such alerts!

Why would anyone use a program that will LIMIT you to ONE version and force YOU to buy an UPGRADE when there are MANY FREE PROGRAMS to protect you as well are BETTER!!!
Wise up People... I TEST Software EVERYDAY and install ONLY the BEST to KEEP! This is not a KEEPER!!!

This program looks useful. One question though - will it conflict with other security programs that have similar features, such as Cyberhawk and Winpatrol, that I have already installed on my computer?

zipzap - you are right pass it for now :) The program is perfect but demands at very least initial knowledge of inner workings of Windows. It's not like antivirus which you install and leave. SSM will ask you on every step and all the time about drivers/services/etc. and you should answer correctly or there is no point at all. Also if you make mistake you can jeopardize the system.
May be you can install and disable it (or put in learning mode) and have some time to learn the matter. Thus can be saved some bucks if you decide to have it later.

will not dl and i dont think your wrong 52

@#52,I'm with you.I'm gonna pass on this one.Seems like you really need to know your sh*t to use,and I'm intermediate,but not advanced.Thanks anyway,GOTD.!!

SSM is an outstanding HIPS. It is not for someone who doesn't know about hooks, dlls, etc unless you are willing to learn. I bought a license months ago, and it has already paid for itself by alerting me to suspicious activity that turned out to be a rootkit trying to embed itself in my computer. I highly recommend this program for the more advanced GotD users.