1. What actually happened or you saw:
Under “HIPS Settings” I unticked “Enable HIPS” but “Detect shellcode injections” was not disabled.
2. What you wanted to happen or see:
Unticking"Enable HIPS" should either disable all the options under that tab, whether they’re ticked or not, or if they aren’t really HIPS features, they should be moved to a separate section, with it’s own masterswitch if appropriate.
3. Why you think it is desirable:
Currently it is very confusing, as one would expect all the options on the HIPS settings page to be disabled by the “Enable HIPS” masterswitch, the same as unticking “Enable Traffic Filtering” on the Firewall Settings tab disables all the options under that, regardless of whether they’re ticked or not.
4. Any other information:
I only discovered this issue due to the recent problems with Chrome crashing. I used the workaround to add Chrome as an exclusion to “Detect shellcode injections” but was surprised that this wasn’t disabled, as it is on the HIPS Settings tab and I have completely disabled HIPS.
I would definitely appreciate a way to disable this feature, regardless of where the option is placed.
BTW, Adding "C:" as an exclusion (while the feature is checked) seems to disable it, for that drive.
An odd way to disable the feature, assuming it works, however.
(Someone correct me if I am wrong.)
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