What is XenCare?
Learn about the next generation concept of threat protection.Thousands of new threats are being born each moment, even as you read this line, and you never know which of them are prying on your computer. What would you do if a nasty Trojan, written hours ago and yet unknown to your antivirus program, takes you to be its next victim? Most traditional threat protection software will fail to detect the threat, since it is not yet on their definition. Confused? Don’t be. To save the day for you, enter XenCare.
XenCare is the next generation of threat protection systems. It is not an antivirus or antispyware software. Nor does it keep any list of threat definition which needs regularly be updated in order to remain effective. It is the smartest software out there: installing XenCare once will make the system safe from malicious machine instructions to be executed.
XenCare keeps its constant eyes on what is going on inside your computer, even inside the most restricted areas of Windows kernel. It monitors access requests to binary files like executables (.exe and .com), Dynamically Linked Libraries (.dll) and some other. Whenever any program tries to create or access any binary file on your computer, XenCare will freeze it and ask you if you know it already. If you don’t, XenCare will not let it proceed.
There are several protection suits in XenCare family, and XenCare SoftLock is the first of them. XenCare SoftLock is a virtual lock for your computer. Though lightweight and simple, it is no less watchful. It is simple because you use only to lock or unlock the computer. If you lock down your computer with it, XenCare SoftLock will immediately shutdown any program trying to perform the slightest suspicious activity, even before the miscreant program has actually started the activity. In the unlocked mode, XenCare SoftLock will not interfere with any program.
On the other hand, XenCare SoftLock is lightweight because it uses very small amount of your precious CPU cycles to monitor your system. Thus, it has extremely low memory and performance overhead.
In essence, XenCare SoftLock stops any unwanted activity before it does any harm, and it does not care who is behind this suspicious behavior: a virus, a spyware, or any unauthorized person.
Learn how XenCare deal with ever evolving menace of threats.Proactive security means stopping threats even when you have not encountered it or have not known of it previously. It is all about dealing with ever evolving pattern of threats while also keeping overall cost much small. Proactive security believes prevention is better than cure, where cure may be getting updated antivirus after someone has already suffered devastation.
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The conventional idea says that the security threats and attacks are completely unpredictable and security is always being in a reactive mode. Over the years, threats have become matured by taking various forms like viruses, worms, denial-of-service attacks, malware, spyware, trojans etc. The approach to fight these threats has been reactive ("oops, new threat—buy new solution") over the past couple of decades. Antivirus, anti-spyware and other security products come up with this reactive approach which is called Security 2.0. They keep signature of known threats to database and can only detect and neutralize those known threats. They are needed to be updated periodically to ensure intended security. So an unknown threat can always cause devastation to the system under such approach.
On the other hand, a proactive security system does not depend on scanning a file for determining if it is a known threat. It will monitor the system for any suspicious activity, and stall it immediately. This approach is called Security 3.0.
Proactive security for your systems. Lock your computer down.
Key features:
a. Stops any threat, even yet unknown ones.
b. Needs no threat definition database.
c. Needs no periodical update.
d. Protects creation, deletion, copying and modification of all .exe, .dll and .com files.
Product description:
XenCare SoftLock is a lightweight, simple yet powerful protection for your Windows computer. It is a virtual lock which, when turned on, thwarts all suspicious activities no matter who tried to do it: a normal program or a threat (virus, spyware, malware, adware) from inside your computer or over the network.
Some types of file (for example, the executable files with .exe extension on Windows) are capable of providing instructions to the Operating System. XenCare SoftLock works very closely with the operating system and listens to requests that other programs make to the OS. Whenever any program makes a request to create or modify such a file, XenCare SoftLock forces the OS to refuse the request. Thus, it is impossible to modify files of sensitive types when your computer is in locked state.
Threats are evolving every second. To cope with this change, conventional protection software (antivirus, anti-spyware etc.) needs constantly update their definition file. But no matter what a threat is, it must modify/access binary files on your system in order to do harm. However, by monitoring file access requests, XenCare SoftLock can invariably stop every program, be it a threat or not.
Besides monitoring file access requests, XenCare SoftLock also watches other sensitive portions of Operating System. It prevents programs from automatically making another program (or itself) start automatically when Windows starts.
This smart approach has many promising advantages:No threat definition is needed: absolutely no one is allowed to perform suspicious operation on your computer when it is locked.
As a direct consequence of the previous point, no regular periodical update of XenCare SoftLock is needed to retain its effectiveness. It will remain as useful as ever against evolving threats once you install it.
Since XenCare SoftLock need not scan files, it makes almost no overhead to your system performance.
In case you unknowingly launch a malicious program with administrative privileges, XenCare SoftLock can still thwart the program from doing any damage to your system.
However, XenCare SoftLock is no replacement to your antivirus program. It is intended to complement the existing antivirus or anti-spyware programs by protecting unforeseen threats.
The following do’s and don’ts scenarios are developed in order to provide XenCare SoftLock users with the optimized user guidelines.
Do's 1. Install XenCare SoftLock in a clean system and stay safe
Do's 2. Make your system clean before installation
Do's 3. Install and customize the settings
Do's 4. Configure to launch at startup
Do's 5. Keep balloon messages enabled
Do's 6. Use default settings for best effect
Do's 7. Unlock system only while doing some setup related tasks
Do's 8. Keep system locked while some peripheral storage is plugged in
Do's 9. Use XenCare SoftLock Activities log file for system diagnosis
Do's 10. Unlock SoftLock, exit and then uninstall the software
FIGURE: Optimal Configuration for SoftLockDon'ts 1. Don’t keep system unlocked while surfing the Internet
Don'ts 2. Don’t keep system unlocked for long
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