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Monday, August 7, 2006
After SvenOnTech told all y’all the bad news that your $50 box of Norton, McAfee, or Trend Micro anti-virus was letting in about 80% of all new viruses onto your PC, we’ve got some good news in the form of a free beta. This beta slaps a pad lock on your hard drive. Nothing gets on it unless you give it the green light. In short, it’s a firewall for your hard drive.
DriveSentry is a, “patent pending application that can block the newest viruses, trojans and malicious code from writing to your drives.” Like ZoneAlarm, it pops up a window when something tries to write itself to your hard drive. Like ZoneAlarm, it learns what you want and don’t want on your computer and stops asking repetitive questions. It, “permits a set of sophisticated rules that determine what files types, directory or drive the application can or can’t write.”
So with this bad boy on your Windows spyware-slash-virus petri dish, you can now forget about worrying if McAfee or Norton is really keeping you safe or not. Heck, I’d just say yank the crap off your hard drive and go with this…and that other Russian software (just to be safe 
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Download the beta (for free) and give a try. We have.
August 24th, 2006 at 14:28
Tried this software, and after some simple reponses to let it build up my ‘wish list’ this thing is finding the sneaky little write requests all the time! Give is a go – it’s excellent, and small too.