System Safety Monitor 2 is available in a free version from the developers website. The tool basically works as a firewall preventing malicious software to be started automatically. The free version runs in paranoid mode which means you have to allow or disallow every process and get nagged quite a bit at the beginning. Once the majority of rules are established the software runs a lot smoother and seems to come forth only when you tend to install a new program or change existing ones.
Once installed you need to reboot your system to be able to run the software, you notice a green icon with an S inside in your system tray once you’ve restarted the system. Double-clicking that icon opens the program in process viewer mode. It displays all running processes on your system and you will have to define some rules here. Right-clicking an entry makes it possible to block, allow or terminate a process as well as to take a look at the processes properties and modules.
Switching to the applications tab displays a list of applications that are allowed and it is easy to add applications that are blocked or allowed. The default list contains few applications and you might want to add the most commonly used ones on your system.
You have some pretty advanced possibilities in this tab, you can take a look at special permissions for those applications that allow you define in detail what the application may do and what it may not do on your system, some interesting ones are:
- allow process suspending and termination
- allow driver installation
- allow shutdown system
- allow global hooks
- allow remote code control
- allow remote data modification
Possible properties depend on the type of file (application, library, system). You could for example add a setting that disallows everyone to terminate your firewall which would include you, the system admin unless you change the setting in system safety monitor. Allowed values are : allow, disallow and ? for asking the user everytime this action should be performed.
On the Modules tab of the main program window you can configure auxiliary modules which track out changes of important operating system settings Every module has a number of configuration settings, where you can select what system settings the module will track and what actions will be performed if these settings are changed. The Registry and INI-Files modules have additional configuration section – Information, where the names and values of the appropriate tracked settings are displayed. In the Information section of the Registry and INI-Files modules you can modify real values in the Registry and INI-files.
Last but not least you have a large options tab which regulates when and how system safety monitor will be started, the logging of events, highlighting colors, hot keys, a master password and many more. It is just to much to write about every setting, everything seems highly configurable.
System Safety monitor 2 is also available as a commercial version, if you want to know about the differences between those versions check out the product page and scroll down to the bottom of that screen.
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