Reviews of DefenseWall HIPS

1. 
   The Seeker 11

   Reviewing 3.14 (Jul 2, 2011)

   Probably the best security application you can run on Windows. Installs quickly, requires next to no setup, but does require some reading of the help file (mainly to do with installing/updating software).
   
   Its premise is simple - internet facing apps are by default untrusted, all others are trusted. Anything downloaded from an untrusted app itself becomes untrusted, thereby eliminating any damage it can do to the rest of your system.
   
   To echo boony's comment, Ilya's support is fantastic. Do take a look at DefenseWall.
2. 
   boony

   Reviewing 3.07 (Oct 10, 2010)

   DefenseWall offers solid protection, and unlike classic HIPS (Malware Defender, ProSecurity, etc) you don't have to be very computer savvy to run it.. Well, maybe a bit more savvy than healer4u. "...turn off your CPU"?
   Some users rely on it for their only defense (no AV). I wouldn't suggest that for less experienced users, but in the right hands, and with some common sense, DW can be enough to keep you safe.
   Also, the support from the developer is incredible. Almost fanatical.
3. 
   CyberDoc999

   Reviewing 3.06 (Aug 12, 2010)

   healer4u does not understand HIPS
   (nor computers) his defective Laptop had problems
   and he had to blame someone......
   DefenseWall is a good program
   (how many anti-virus programs does he run at the same time???)
4. 
   healer4u

   Reviewing 2.45 (Apr 8, 2010)

   HIPS WIPED OUT MY LAPTOP! Actually the latest public update for HIPS is 2.56 I believe. It turns out that there are still a lot of bugs with this software. It had major conflicts with microsoft essential antivirus, and several others.
   
   My experience was very bad. Hips froze my screen, and did a lot of weird things like slowing down application files from seconds to ten minutes. Long story short I had to send my laptop out to be repaired. After three days of attempting to debug my laptop the repair shop said they would have to wipe out windows and re-install everything....that also meant I had to reset my mail server connections and re-install all the many downloaded application files that i had.
   
   If you install Hips and you notice anything not right....turn off your cpu and take to the repair shop. What I noticed is that the longer I tried to fix what Hips had done the worse and more entrenched the problem became....think
   of pac-man crunching your files. I could not get Hips to uninstall completely and sub-files were difficult to find
   
   Having said that I do like the theory of how Hips is supposed to work and my older versions of Hips did work fine. In any case don't expect the developer to make good on returning your money.
   
   I finally had to drop most all of my other antivirus programs to get Hips to work. I am still evaluating the situation.
5. 
   ruine-babines

   Reviewing 2.45 (May 5, 2009)

   I won't add much to what's already said in other people's posts. DW is very easy to use and efficient to protect a pc, without continually asking user yes/no to answer cryptic questions like many other programs of this kind do. It's the main security software i'm using.
   And there is a more recent version available (2.54), using the french localisation here (sorry for my broken english, btw).

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