HitmanPro.Alert is a lightweight application able to monitor your browser activity and detect potential threats that may comprise system security.
The tool was specifically built to add an extra layer of security to your system, in order to protect you whenever you shop on the Internet or perform online banking operations. It offers real-time PC protection against software exploits, drive-by downloads, crypto-ransomware, online fraud, and identity theft.
Intuitive interface and malware scans
The tool sports an attractive and clear-cut interface, and offers to perform a malware scan right after installation, in order to get the security assessment of your computer.
Scan results show the name, full path of infected file and type of each threat. You can either delete files or ignore threats, as well as apply an action to the current file or all of them. These log details can be saved to file for later examination.
Safe browsing and exploit mitigation
When it comes to safe browsing, HitmanPro.Alert protects your activities surrounding online banking, shopping or web mail. It offers support for many browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Maxthon, Comodo Dragon, Pale Moon, Tor Browser Bundle, Avant Browser, Spark Browser, SRWare Iron and Yandex Browser.
The feature dedicated to exploit mitigation prevents several third-party applications from current and future vulnerability attacks, like Java, VLC Media Player, Windows Media Player, Windows Media Center, Wordpad and Adobe Flash Player. Currently running processes that aren't supported by HitmanPro.Alert are shown in another panel, so you can at least be aware of risks.
Vaccination, CryptoGuard and webcam notifier
The software application sports additional tools to reduce the risk of malware infections. For instance, it can stop sandbox-aware malware by making the computer look like it belongs to a virus researcher, block crypto-ransomware (like CryptoLocker) by keeping local and shared files safe, or warn you when your webcam was silently turned on to watch you.
Keystroke encryption, process protection, network lockdown and USB blocker
Moreover, the program is able to encrypt all keystrokes to prevent keyloggers from hijacking your passwords, private messages and other sensitive information, prevent malware from infecting the main executable of a trusted process (e.g. antivirus), stop backdoor traffic by locking down the network, and block malicious USB devices that pose as a keyboard.
HitmanPro.Alert 3.5 Build 546 Released
After a (too long) private beta period we now release HitmanPro.Alert version 3.5. I want to take to opportunity to thank everybody who participated in the private beta. Thank you!
If you are still running a 3.5 beta you are encouraged to upgrade to this release.
CryptoGuard 4th generation
Major new feature is the addition of the 4th generation of CryptoGuard (est. 2013). It is now capable of detecting "imperfect" crypto-ransomware families. These types of crypto-ransomware simply create encrypted copies of your files and then delete the originals. If you use an undelete tool like Recuva you can get much of your data back. Hence why we call these families imperfect. Getting hit by these types is still highly annoying so we added support for protecting against these families.
CryptoGuard v4 also improves the rollback mechanism that restores encrypted files to their original state. And we have vastly improved the cleanup of the temp files in the CryptoGuard rollback folder.
Since 2013, CryptoGuard not only protects against locally running crypto-ransomware, but also provides protection against infected endpoints trying to encrypt your locally shared data from remote.
WipeGuard
With the advent of Master Boot Record based ransomware (Petya and Mischa), we have added a new mitigation called WipeGuard (currently part of CryptoGuard). This mitigation protects your critical disk sectors from being overwritten. This is the first release of WipeGuard, future releases will enhance this mitigation. Stay tuned.
Improvements
Next to new features we have also improved performance across the board. Mitigations are now faster and alerts provide more information.
You can read the full changelog below.
Changelog (compared to build 374)
- Added CryptoGuard 4th generation
- Added WipeGuard mitigation
- Added DLL hijack mitigation on browser downloaded binaries
- Added Hardware-Assisted IAT filtering
- Added Import and Export of settings
- Improved Hardware-Assisted Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) mitigation
- Improved ROP mitigation
- Improved CallerCheck mitigation
- Improved Heap Spray mitigation
- Improved Hollow Process mitigation
- Improved Application Lockdown
- Improved Colored Window Border
- Improved overall mitigation performance
- Improved reporting details
- Improved compatibility hooks
- Improved 3rd party trampoline handling
- Improved support for binaries with Intel® MPX instructions
- Fixed Software Radar incorrectly detecting 64-bit applications
Changelog: http://www.surfright.nl/en/whatsnewalert
Homepage: http://www.surfright.nl/en/alert
Download: http://dl.surfright.nl/hmpalert3.exe