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Re: System Safety Monitor has now freeware version
de Goeroeboeroe 06/29/2006 02:50
In article <4ggatsF1lpa28U1@individual.net>, sebugher@yahoo.com says...
> Goeroeboeroe wrote:
> > Homepage/download: http://www.syssafety.com/
>
> > I use this program now about one year, and next to the paid version
> > there's a freeware version now.
> > First one thing, before some Sherlock Holms finds conflict of interests:
> > I made the Dutch translation for this program in exchange for a license
> > for the paid version.
> >
> > The freeware version is the program I used till now, but from now on the
> > paid version will have extra things.
>
> erm. . . re the free *now* part. . . This app has been freeware and/or
> expire/renewable ware. Is that why you say there's now a free version
> AND also say you've used the free verion for a year?
Hi Susan,
I was already afraid this was not too clear. I'll try it again.
Once there was a freeware version. I think they planned to make it
shareware when it was finished, but it was freeware.
The program became more or less usable, so they made it shareware (with
a trial period). There was no free version anymore. Since I got a
license, I could use the program.
Now they changed it again: the shareware is still the shareware, nothing
changed, so for me it's the same. But now comes the complicated part:
I got an update, with much more possibilities, but this is shareware.
The program I used until this update they made freeware. And that's how
I know it works good, because my shareware-version (until the last
update) is the same as what's now the freeware-version.
>
> About the freeware version:
> > it's an anti-intrusion program, and by far the best I know. It beats
> > programs like PrevX and WinPatrol by miles. It's a bit hard to get used
> > to it, but that has to do with the heavy protection it offers.
> >
> > It checks the usual things like new startups.
> > It checks program changes with checksums. It controls which program is
> > allowed to start which other program, which program is allowed to load
> > which driver, etc. It can keep a program running if it is closed down by
> > some malware. (Actually I use this last feature to prevent myself from
> > closing down my RSI-prevention-program :o) Etc.
> >
> > And again: I have no interests with this program, except that I made the
> > Dutch translation, and that I think the freeware version is a really
> > good program.
>
> So do others in ACF. :) It was nominated for the 2005PL.
> http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2005/2005PL-Nominations.php
Ah, I didn't notice that...
>
> dunno why/when they changed the name of the company, but it's the same app.
Don't know either.
>
> A little more info. . . $ware version is 2.1.0.576, free version is
> 2.0.8.574 - both versions released on 28 June 2006. I note they say:
>
> "IMPORTANT NOTE for Windows 9x users: Windows 9x is not supported in
> 2.1+. The functionality of 2.1 would be too hard to implement for
> Windows 9x and we can not afford that given the Windows 9x market
> perspectives. However SSM 2 freeware will continue to support Windows 9x
> as much as possible."
>
> whatever that means. . . arghhhhhhhhhh. . . ;)
The registry-monitoring part seems to be too difficult to implement on
Windows 9x, if I understood it well. That's the new part in the
shareware-version.
I think they have a commercial intrest in supporting Windows 9x, because
of course they hope people buy the shareware-version. So maybe the
support will keep good. On the forums they react very fast when there
are questions or bugs.
>
> Susan
>
Peter