The unofficial Shadow Defender Support Thread.

i don't know about you folks but i would not touch that so called new version until SDMod (Patrick) find out what is happening.

 

If a large company like M*****oft had bought (or was in the process of buying) SD that might explain this wall of silence. I find it strange that both sites are offering for sale the "updated" Shadow Defender 1.1.0.331 without explanation or apology to members, users and potential purchasers. Tony has visited this forum at times and would (if he is still involved) be aware of the confusion and break in confidence that the months of silence has caused.

What to do next? If there are secret negotiations in progress for the legitimate sale of Shadow Defender or a change of ownership in progress then contacting the authorities at this point might be premature...but if I have received no reply from shadowdefenderdotorg or shadowdefenderdotcom I think I will proceed in that direction...I think that I have given a reasonable amount of time for them to answer my question, which is, basically, "What is going on?"

I've not received a reply to my email to supportatshadowdefenderdotcom that I sent yesterday.

I am going to login to shadowdefenderdotorg today to see if they have given an explanation instead of removing my posts.


Patrick (Shadow Defender mod)

 

331 also appearing on.....

http://download.cnet.com/Shadow-Defender-32-bit/3000-2653_4-10723891.html?tag=mncol;1
and
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Security-Related/Shadow-Defender.shtml

Patrick, any word yet on what's going on?

 

Very strange situation this is!

TH

 

Interesting. I installed Win7 onto my system sometime in February. I just got around to reinstalling SD onto it last week. I used the install file that I used on my old XP system, one that I obtained sometime around January 2010. IT ALSO HAD THE NAME OF IGOR PAVLOV on it. I want to emphasize that this was without a doubt the same file that I used back in Jan.2010 when Tony was still around. I did not download anything; I used my old file that I had saved from my old system.

Acadia

 

I have an archive of almost all SD builds that I have collected. I can say that they don't all have the name Igor Pavlov on the installer. I'm not going to touch the latest build until I get a no BS explanation of what is going on. I think I know what has happened, and i'm usually right about these things. I'm not going to speculate until I hear something official.

 

Igor Pavlov is the author of 7-Zip, there is a functionality that developers can use to make simple setup files. Same functionality exist in WinRar, WinZip etc. I think starting with 1.1.0.313 Tony used 7-Zip to create SD setup files.

 

I usually keep an archive of all software I have used. I have shadow defender 1.1.0.275, .314, .315, .320. .325. .325 x64. All of them have Igor Pavlov on the installer except for .275 which has Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Shadowdef...
Take a look at the screen shot of the .275 installer.

 

and if install 7 Zip then see what it says ..

7 Zip installer

 

no speculation but let us know what your opinion what happened.....

 

1.1.0.313 is and has been on hack sites with codes for over a week now

and is been offered with a keygen that is malware

 

for stealing Tony and left his project.
The new owner(?) will certainly change the software activation,probably as it does Prevx,Returnil.....

 

You mean .331 right? It only appeared yesterday not for a week though...

 

diskpt0.sys the .331 version has a digital signature, download the latest version is at sofpedia and download.cnet...and the official site ...
or someone totally broke, or someone totally bought...
may have a third solution, but is unlikely in my opinion.
I saw how all the "old"warez serials "work" and the version .331
simply Tony or did not have the strength to "fight" with warez or simply ceased to fight against windmills.

 

I don't think Tony stopped working on this because of piracy, but his departure was quite sudden indeed suggesting a myriad of causes for this. Lets hope for the best.

OT - I can't help but wonder what your sig says skokospa I can see its meant to be funny, but for the life of me I can't decipher the joke. Please PM me an explanation when you see this.

 

Hey! Get off my Porch!
Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

SD should just have an activation like SAS, it works very well and would no doubt limit allot of ~ Snipped as per TOS ~ thieves.

By the way, who is trying the new version? I think I'm going to give it a go pretty soon as the BSOD's are getting to me.

 

Well I installed Version 1.1.0.331 and no problems to report on Win 7 x64 it also accepted my license code clicked on the links and it takes me here http://www.shadowdefender.com/index.html so I don't know what's up? And Prevx doesn't see anything strange! I will report if there are any problems!

TH

 

is there a list of the changes by any chance?

 

Good to know, by the way love Prevx no matter what the Webroot doomsayers say

 

Change History is listed here:

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1850625&postcount=87

 

What about a changelog for 1.1.0.331

 

Running well on Win 7 32bit & 64bit uploaded all the system files to VT and all was clean so far so good! All I could see that most of the files were updated Feb 21st and one March 31st!

TH

 

i hope Patrick (SDmod) can shed some light on this later on during the week.