Thanks to cs and others for the info re the cost of Deep Freeze. I'd probably give it a try if I didn't have a license for SD but I can't see it being any better for my needs.
Salutations and Greetings, Deep Freeze Standard, do they have a Family Plan? Will Deep Freeze Standard protect the MBR?
@LoneWolf Appreicate the information,Many Thanks! Still wondering if,Deep Freeze Standard, has a Family Plan?
To my knowledge they BOTH use a driver and for certain SD uses a Filter Driver neatly positioned to perform as well as it has for as long as it has to date. I recall Deep Freeze also uses a specialized driver or drivers that help set a separate partition-like array that on reboot drops all the writes to it from a former working session. There probably are some notable differences in the 2 virtualization programs that others can point out and exceptions.
Unless things have changed, in the past Deep Freeze needed to reboot in order to enter the "frozen" mode. Shadow Defender can enter "shadow" mode on the fly without need to reboot. Acadia
Deep Freeze is better maintained in terms of updates and is the preferred choice with public libraries, universities, etc. Deep Freeze is sorely lacking in the GUI department compared to Shadow Defender. However, Deep Freeze excels at what it purports to do despite the lack of bells and whistles and a flashy GUI. I have a lifetime license with both apps (DF Standard) and appreciate the stability and reliability offered by Faronics.
That looks accurate. Last time i ran Deep Freeze way back when it was required to reboot in order to enter and exit freeze mode. What everyone liked when Shadow Defender first came out was that feature to enter shadow-mode on the fly, and then only a reboot to lift out of it.
No. Deep Freeze has never been advertised or sold as a home product, which people oddly keep comparing Shadow Defender with Deep Freeze and I purchased Shadow Defender years ago but if I was running a business I'd go the Deep Freeze route every single time as that product is exactly what a business needs. I would never trust Shadow Defender in such an environment due to it having options like committing files / registry entries, exclusion lists etc and sure these are good for home users but on a business computer? Absolutely not as they could be exploited.
True enough @Gaddster - Shadow Defender with those features "could" be viewed as a home user's novelty. With just enough programming applied in it's workings to safeguard a home user from common and not-so-common malware affecting it seriously. In addition it makes for a useful app tester on Windows platforms but i doubt you would get a business enterprise to choose it over a Faronic's Deep Freeze. In fact Faronic's has a very long many years solid track record and seems to hardly need much more of any update or improvements. The thing is ideal for business and library networking etc
Deep Freeze Standard v.8.71.20.5734 (2023-08-24) Code: https://downloads.faronics.com/Install/Faronics_DFS.zip
changelog https://www.faronics.com/en-uk/document-library/document/deep-freeze-standard-release-notes
Wow, what a changelog! Do you use DF, if so, how does it work? I did a test buy, and during the process i did not get to the opportunity to use a discount coupon, maybe they do not accept such. Do you know?
Personally, I have only good experience with this software, if you have used a similar app before, you should have no problems adapting to Faronics Deep Freeze. Some features work a little differently than in e.g. Shadow Defender, but you can get used to it. When you buy Deep Freeze Standard from the European Union, its price is for now €49.36 + Tax.
I was thinking in terms of, if you have used it these latest years, how it have worked during that period since the updates are, well, not frequent. I bought Shadow Defender some year or so ago even though it had not updated for some time, later on it was abandoned. Buy this now and have a flawed soft on my hands within a year, for some years, does not appeal to me.
I've been using this app for over a year now and haven't had any problem with it during that time. The license is subscription based, so the company (It's a well known company, not some unknown person) should care about customer satisfaction. You have to decide for yourself, because as usual, the future is unknown.
I can't find any details about the license. Is the license unusable after a year or do you just no longer get updates? matra
Ok. Well, i have used it a while now but it is to limited for my purposes. I want something that i can reboot with and the installed items survive until i actively remove them by going out of the "freeze" mode.
been using Deepfreeze and Anti-Executable for several years without issue and have not switched to any other security solution since. If Data Igloo is set correctly, there are also no issues with Data loss whatsoever.
