Comments on: HitmanPro.Alert Review: Free Ransomware Protection & Browser Intrusion Detection Tool

By: reply.by.email.4.re:

reply.by.email.4.re: — Tue, 06 May 2014 03:52:00 +0000

Although this is a bit dated, with the addition of new ransomware each day, I find it appropriate to address.

HitmanPro.Alert 2.6.5 and CryptoPrevent can most definitely be used to complement one another. Please see the following link for a detailed explanation from a developer:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/513182/cryptoguard-prevents-your-files-from-being-taken-hostage/

By: Anand Khanse

Anand Khanse — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 12:20:00 +0000

In reply to jwmort. Both maybe effective, but I decided to go with CryptoPrevent.

By: jwmort

jwmort — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 11:14:00 +0000

So, given the choice between HitmanPro.Alert and CryptPrevent, as it’s apparent there is no need for both, which is the choice.

All of my systems run either Professional or Enterprise versions of Windows.

I have deployed CryptoPrevent and AVG Cloud Care (content filtering) at client offices, I am also considering switching them to OpenDNS as another layer of precaution. The three together should be sufficient in prevention, in my humble opinion.

By: Anand Khanse

Anand Khanse — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 13:56:00 +0000

In reply to Joe b. I would probably recommend that you do not run both Hitman-Pro-Alert and CryptoPrevent - no need anyway!

By: ErnieK

ErnieK — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 10:43:00 +0000

In reply to Joe b.

Joe
I don’t know if it is possible to run both together or not but I have now been running CryptoPrevent for the past 6 – 7 days and there is no slowdown on system[s] (installed on 3 PC’s). As for just how secureeffective it is I will not know unless I get hit [which is something I don’t really want to test out :-)]. So no [visible] activity, I suppose, is a good sign. It does not [seem] to interfere with other security programs either.
ErnieK