Opinions on Mbam's Anti Exploit program.

Golden said:

Thanks David!

Looks like it wants me to buy a licence to activate it for Comodo Dragon ....or mayb its already activated? Whats the padlocks meaning?

Mmm....I think its already active? The GUI is a bit confusing....too many activate buttons.

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Open the MBAE General tab and look at the "Shielded Applications" count.
Open and close the Comodo Dragon browser, and see if the count changes.
Right now I only have IE, and the count changes when i open and close it...MBAE seems to show it's protected...when i have IE open

Yea, the Activate buttons should state what they are for, such as "Activate License" and "Activate Shield" ... I won't comment on the GUI ...

Lady Fitzgerald said:

DavidE said:

Lady Fitzgerald said:

I have several of the programs listed by MBAE free as being protected (IE, Adobe Acrobat, M$ Word, M$ Excel, M$ PowerPoint, WMP, and VLC Player) but the General tab shows only one Shielded application; according to the logs, that is IE. The option to activate a shield is grayed out. Is this normal?

I just installed MBAE free on a WTP Build 10049 VM.
I can click on activate and get a message showing the Premium version is needed.

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Curious. I can right click, left click, and wheel click on it and it just sets there and laughs at me.

What version of MBAE are you using ?
I'm using the latest v 1.06.
I never used a previous version, so i can't comment on how they work.

MoxieMomma said:

DavidE said:

Open the MBAE General tab and look at the "Shielded Applications" count.
Open and close the Comodo Dragon browser, and see if the count changes.

There has been a longstanding, known bug with the "Shielded Applications" count.
I do not see it listed as fixed in the 1.06 changelog.
So I do not know if it is fixed or not.

AFAIK The best way to see if the browser (or any application) is shielded is to look for the locked padlock next to its name in the list under the "Shields" tab.

But, as I've said before, @pbust would be able to answer the question quickly and accurately HERE

Thank you,

Ah, thanks for those tips :)
You are the expert here, so keep us informed

MoxieMomma said:

Yea, the Activate buttons should state what they are for, such as "Activate License" and "Activate Shield" ... I won't comment on the GUI ...

At the risk of flagellating a deceased equine:

MBAE product comments and suggestions really need to be posted HERE

MBAE Product bugs/issues/problems/conflicts really need to be reported HERE

The MBAE team is very responsive and receptive to user feedback, but, alas, they cannot monitor the entire world wide intertubes for "trouble" reports and complaints.

Thank you,

I have asked questions, made comments, reported issues on the MBAM forums.
There are issues that were reported long ago, and have not been fixed ...

If you want to work with them on these questions that's fine.
I've been there and done that with MBAM ...

imho they do what they want, usability is not their forte, and that's all i want to say about this.

I have free 1.06.

I use Palemoon.

It's shield is activated and shows a locked padlock.

Good and as expected to that point.

However, when I highlight the Palemoon shield and attempt to deactivate it, I get the pop-up below, which tells me that deactivation requires a premium license.

Expected behavior?

Or is English not my first language?

ignatzatsonic said:

I have free 1.06.

I use Palemoon.

It's shield is activated and shows a locked padlock.

Good and as expected to that point.

However, when I highlight the Palemoon shield and attempt to deactivate it, I get the pop-up below, which tells me that deactivation requires a premium license.

Expected behavior?

Or is English not my first language?

I just installed Pale Moon in WTP, English language, ...
I see the same thing, i can't deactivate without a premium license ...
Is it a bug, or intentional to lock a user into ALL the default settings ????