We will be undergoing website maintenance on Saturday, March 31st between the hours of 1-6pm EDT. Expect that the website may or may not be accessible (in part or entirely) during this time-frame. We will repost when the site is available again. Our other web presences such as the support queue, billing/invoice access, IRC, download server, and all other servers used by various software for application updates and/or validation will NOT be affected by the...
This morning we released d7x v18.3.17.1 (yay!) just as it became obvious that existing versions will not update, and most any d7xRDT packages will also fail to download or launch d7x. If you have d7x v18.3.16.0 or above, your copy should update to today’s release without issue; not so with any previous releases. Affected Versions * d7x v18.2.3.0 and below will fail to communicate with our secure download site, including receiving even the notification of...
As many CryptoPrevent users may be aware, “vssadmin.exe” is a setting automatically enabled with the “default” protection plan, which blocks any usage of this file. This setting prevents launch of the vssadmin.exe file via SRP (aka Software Restriction Policies) a built-in Windows mechanism of controlling what is and is not allowed on a PC, although it is only configurable with native Windows tools on the server/workstation versions of the operating system, but not the “Home” editions found on...
We have now corrected recent download failure issues from our end. We apologize for the trouble, and thank you for your understanding! ISSUE: Download failures resulting in errors such as “HTTP 500”, “ERR_INVALID_RESPONSE”, and “This site can’t be reached”. SCOPE: Affected all downloads using encrypted download links (ending in “/?enc_dl_action=process&file=” with some additional random characters) which are served from various product pages on our website, or received in various auto-response emails from our website. STATUS: Resolved....
d7II subscribers will notice their copy of d7II v3.6.86 (or earlier) now promotes that an update exists to v3.6.87 (there is no actual code change for this specific .exe version; the version number is incremented to silence d7II update notifications if used after this d7x release.) [Some information may be outdated] Please see the d7x Manual for ALL current product information and downloads. d7x is the name given to the successor of d7II, our current generation PC technician productivity software. Initial incarnations...
d7x v0.0.0.90 just released adds Windows 10 to custom app platform/OS restriction settings. If not configured, behavior should not change. Backwards compatibility note: This is the only area in d7x configurations where d7II may (and likely will) erase the setting entirely when used to edit the same custom app configuration. Although we’re not looking to add new features in d7x Alpha at the moment until we have tested everything, had good feedback from testers, and are...
This latest d7x Alpha “TestBuild” replaces the “d7IIx Alpha” versions opened to all d7II subscribers in March. We believe this release can be tested with confidence in a production environment, provided you keep d7II with you as a backup. d7x Alpha is designed to sit beside d7II in the same folder, and maintains backwards compatibility with d7II configurations and active d7II session data (temporary files and settings specific to d7II and the current repair process) so...
Sept 26th, 2017 Update: Yesterday this appeared on Bleeping Computer: Avast Publishes Full List of Companies Affected by CCleaner Second-Stage Malware https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/avast-publishes-full-list-of-companies-affected-by-ccleaner-second-stage-malware/ Bleeping also put out a nice article from the 22nd, containing a nice summary if you’re just catching up on the news (because of course more has emerged since our last update, and we shouldn’t just assume you read it elsewhere): Info on CCleaner Infections Lost Due To Malware Server Running Out of Disk Space...
If you missed the show from today (09/19/2017) or just want to review it again, we’ve got it edited and posted to our YouTube channel! On this episode we go over some of the security issues going around right now and Nick spends a good chunk of time going over the latest updates to d7x. *Spoiler Alert It’s ready for production usage* d7II can be used as a backup fallback still* d7x Manual (Alpha Release...
Our web host has also informed us of scheduled maintenance in the server region affecting our servers (Website, Downloads, IRC), which is expected to last anywhere from a 15 minutes to two hours beginning at 18:00 UTC on July 13th, 2017 (or 2pm Eastern Time for us…) What is affected: The CryptoPrevent, d7II, and d7x/d7IIx Alpha software and definition update servers, as well as the main Foolish IT download servers, and website will be affected, as well as...
