Hello again everyone!
Haven’t been in these CIS forums in a while. I installed NIS2011 on XP SP3 on a new build PC last Oct… Got sucked in by the cheap retail price of the 3 PC version. All I can say about NIS is the firewall is a POS, plain and simple. Rest of the package is OK but still bloated.
Anyway, I just installed WIN 7 Prem. x64 on another HDD on this PC as a dual boot setup. Installed Avast 6.0 which is a pretty slick freebie I must say. I also installed CIS a couple of days ago and it was auto updated yesterday to the latest ver. Wow!! - is all I can say. What an improvement from the ver. 4 days.
Installed CIS Firewall in default config. Both firewall and Defense+ running in safe mode. Sandboxing is set on and set to limited. Network option set to Stealth ports. Appears to be working just fine from the few test I have done to date. I also changed Defense+ Monitoring Settings to turn on the Computer Monitor and Keyboard settings. So far no conflicts with Avast or anything else. Knock on wood! BTW - I haven’t done anything firewall rule wise although I am somewhat of a “rules jockey.”
Anyway, I downloaded SpyShelter’s AntiTest.exe to check keylogging and screen monitoring primarily. Ran in the sandbox with limited priviledges. CIS passed all the keylogging tests aand most of the sceen capture tests. I think it failed the last two screen tests on both lines. It also failed the clipboard test - I think. I copied something to the clipboard and didn’t get any alerts from CIS put I coulldn’t paste anything. CIS also failed the sound test. i didn’t run the web cam test. Not bad results overall.
Anyway to improve this short of setting a full Defense+ Proactive config. which I don’t want to do - too many alerts from past experience?