SurfRight HitmanPro.Alert 2017
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$33.95 $34.95
1-Year / 1-Device(PC)
Product Activation: Worldwide
An Internet connection is required to install the software and for virus signature and software updates
Platform: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10
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HitmanPro.Alert combines the advanced discovering abilities of HitmanPro, while working to prevent malicious programs from even gaining access to your PC. It prevents good programs from being exploited, stops ransomware from running, and detects a host of different intruders by analyzing their behavior. Can also run alongside your current antivirus. The next generation of malware has met its match.
Protect against ransomware, malware, and zero-day exploits with confidenceDoes your current antivirus prevent breaches and infections without having any prior knowledge of attacks or malware? HitmanPro.Alert blocks the core techniques and exploits malware uses to hide from antivirus software. It also detects intruders like banking malware, remote access tools, and crypto-ransomware, simply by observing the behaviors that these threats exhibit. It even makes sandbox-aware malware terminate itself by vaccinating or "camouflaging" your PC as a virus researcher.
HitmanPro.Alert 2017, which includes the discovery and removal abilities of HitmanPro, turns your computer into a highly undesirable victim, automatically stopping and revealing attacks in real-time, without using virus signatures.
Ransomware protectionEven when ransomware sneaks past your current antivirus, HitmanPro.Alert can detect, remove, and reverse its effects. After ransomware is detected, HitmanPro.Alert's CryptoGuard technology automatically neutralizes the perpetrating program and restores the encrypted documents. And all of this happens without any user intervention.
Catch what other antiviruses missRegular antivirus programs stop programs and files that have been previously identified as malicious. Unlike other antiviruses, HitmanPro.Alert can prevent a brand new computer infection without requiring prior knowledge of the attack. It watches for any malicious behavior, analyzes the threats, and takes action against malicious files or programs.
Recognize devious attackersHitmanPro.Alert was built specifically to disrupt attacks across the entire threat landscape, not just from webpages and email attachments. It offers exemplary exploit prevention and advanced malware remediation, severely limiting the abilities of skilled hackers to take over your computer.
Comprehensive remediationHitmanPro.Alert automatically informs users when critical system functions are affected by untrusted programs and effectively reveals the presence of any malware that affects web browser functionality, and then proceeds to remove them. By encrypting your keystrokes, HitmanPro.Alert also prevents attackers from stealing your credentials or watching on what you enter on your keyboard.
- Added thumbprint based suppression technology (patent-pending)
- Improved Application Lockdown
- Improved DEP mitigation reporting detaills
- Improved compatibility with 32-bit Java desktop applications requiring 1GB+ memory
- Improved LoadLib mitigation
- Fixed Intruder detection on Websense DLL in 64-bit browser processes
This build is co-signed by Microsoft. So it is compatible with Windows 10 Anniversary Update with SecureBoot.
SurfRight, the creators of HitmanPro, joined the Sophos family in 2015. We are innovators in online security, focused on developing new applicable technologies to fight malware, spam, phishing and other forms of cybercrime with experience and products stretching back over 30 years.
Technical Specifications
| Segment | Home |
| License Type | New License |
| Device Users | 1 |
| License Term | 12 months |
| Operating System | Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 |
HitmanPro.Alert 3.7 is a product by Surfright, the makers of the excellent HitmanPro security application, that has been designed to mitigate exploits, and here specifically browser attacks.
While initially designed to protect against banking trojans and other malicious code affecting web browsers, it has since then been improved to provide protection against other forms of malware.
HitmanPro.Alert is an exploit mitigation tool which steps in when attacks target vulnerabilities in programs or the Windows operating system that have not been patched yet.
The program supports features that EMET or Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit don't support currently such as Process Protection, Man in the middle browser detection, or anti-ransomware functionality.
The program interface lists four main areas of interest:
- Scan Computer runs a malware scan using the same antivirus engines that HitmanPro ships with.
- Safe Browsing protects against man in the middle attacks while browsing.
- Exploit Mitigation identifies and mitigates attacks that use exploits.
- Risk Reduction includes several additional protective features.
HitmanPro.Alert protects important applications automatically against exploits when it is running. You can add any running process to the list of protected programs which can be useful if the program has not been identified by HitmanPro.Alert automatically. That's the case for portable apps for instance.
You may exclude programs from being protected. This is only recommended if you notice that a program does not function properly anymore because of the exploit protection.
A click on a protected application displays options to enable or disable mitigations individually. The following mitigations are available currently:
- Application Lockdown - Stops attacks that bypass mitigations.
- Control-Flow Integrity - Stops ROP attacks.
- IAT Filtering - Prevents abuse of Import Address Table.
- Stack Pivot - Stops abuse of the stack pointer.
- Stack Exec - Stops attacker's code on the stack.
- SEHOP - Stops abuse of the exception handler.
- Enforce DEP - Prevents abuse of buffer overflows.
- Mandatory ASLR - Prevents predictable code locations.
- Bottom up ASLR - Improves code location randomization.
- Null Page - Stops exploits that jump via page 0.
- Dynamic Heap Spray - Stops exploits that start via the heap.
Another area where HitmanPro.Alert outshines other solutions is its selection of risk reduction tools. The security program ships with the following tools included:
- Vaccination - Stops sandbox-aware malware.
- CryptoGuard - Stops crypto-ransomware.
- Webcam Notifier - Warns you when your webcam is being accessed.
- Keystroke Encryption - protects against keyloggers.
- Process Protection - Prevents process hollowing.
- Network Lockdown - Stops backdoor traffic.
- BadUSB - Stops malicious USB devices.
- Block Untrusted Fonts - Stops elevation of privilege attacks.
You can disable any of those easily if you don't require them.
Protection against ransomwareHitmanPro.Alert version 3.7 introduced protection against so called crypto ransomware. This type of malware encrypts data on the PC so that it cannot be accessed anymore by the user unless money is being paid for the decryption.
We have recently looked at Cryptolocker, a ransomware that is currently making the rounds on the Internet. While there may be ways to restore files if malware did encrypt files on the system, for instance through backups or file versioning, it is fair to say that this is not always a possibility.
HitmanPro.Alert 3.7 introduced protection against these kind of attacks and the feature has been part of the application ever since.
The protection is enabled by default. According to Surfright, it protects against all kinds of crypto ransomware. There is no need to configure anything, the part of the program runs autonomously in the background. HitmanPro.Alert will display a notification on the screen that a computer virus has been discovered, and that the threat has been intercepted and blocked from execution.
SummaryHitmanPro.Alert 2017 runs silently in the background for the most part. The process is light on resources -- it used only about 4 Megabytes of RAM while running in the background.
The program is fully compatible with all supported versions of the Windows operating system -- 32-bit and 64-bit -- and fully compatible with full disk encryption software such as BitLocker or TrueCrypt.