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ReHIPS / Re: Some issues I've had while testing the demo

« Last post by Umbra on March 20, 2020, 05:21:17 am »

1. Some programs won't start anymore with Sandboxie.

that is expected, i made a post about it long time ago.
Sandboxie and ReHIPS both inject  dlls in every process they sandbox, i guess that this is conflicting and prevent proprer use of both ReHIPS and Sbie.
You can't use both at same time for the same program.
To use both on your machine, at same time, without conflicts, you must decide which of Sandboxie or ReHIPS will sandbox the given application.
For example, if you have say Chrome and Firefox, you can protect FF with Sandboxie (and delete any ReHIPS rules for FF) and give Chrome to ReHIPS (and disabling sandboxie's sandbox for Chrome).

That is the reason i'm totally against stockpiling similar programs  (beginner's behavior thinking more softs = more protection), in reality it won't protect you much more (except in cleverly made setups), and without serious computing skills, this will create many issues ordinary users can't fathom.

Anyway sandboxie is almost dead, not maintained anymore (or barely), i dont even see the point of keep using it while you have ReHIPS.

2. The program "Rambox Pro" doesn't work with ReHIPS isolation. This is unrelated to Sandboxie. It just says that it was unable to start the program. Rambox is one of my most important programs and at the same time one of the programs which I would like to run only isolated.

you probably didn't give enough access to it. for some programs, deeper tweaks must me done.

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I had to disable the virtual desktop, because it freezed/crashed repeatedly. Basically anytime one of ReHIPS's own dialogue popups appeared while being on the virtual deskop, it froze. I couldn't click any oft the buttons in the dialoge window. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del to get back to the regular desktop, revealed what the problem was - the button for switching the desktops became white/unresponsive. I had to kill the process manually ever time.
After disabling the virtual desktop, I hadn't any issue with freezes anymore.

Normally you can switch to between virtual and real desktop via the key combo.
sometimes what creates the freezes are from blocked processes the user is unaware or using several similar security softs at same time, like you seems to do.
You want evaluate properly a program, you use it alone first.

Question: is the "normal desktop-mode" less safe? I don't need it to be visually seperated im such a manner. If it's just that.

yes; but not so much, i only use Virtual Desktops for the most vulnerable applications or risky uses (PDFs and other Docs readers for files downloaded from the internet, etc...), if not i just use ReHIPS a la sandboxie (on the real desktop with just the colored border, more convenient).

4. When installing/uninstalling ReHIPS, any popup dialogue that's coming from the installer appears *behind* the installer window. When clicking on it, the "locked" sound plays, that occurs when you try to click a window that is locked by a dialogue box.
But there's no way to bring the dialogue box into foreground. Pressing enter to confirm whatever the dialoge box says doesn't work.
The only solution is to open Task Manager and kill the process of the dialogue box - then the install/uninstall process continues. This is highly disturbing. Now I have no idea what the dialogue box said / what the uninstaller did to my computer.
I have installed/uninstalled ReHIPS 4 times within my testing period, and this issue happened every time.

Never had this issue, and i installed/uninstalled ReHIPS hundreds of times already. Your OS setup is probably in cause.
doing a screenshot when this appears and posting it here would be helpful

5. There was a myriad of popups. For example when opening a new tab in a browser that runs within ReHIPS, the demo popup appeared about 30 times simultaneously. Sometimes even more. My fingers already started to hurt from all the clicking after some hours with the demo.

the demo is limited to 10 active processes, modern browsers run more than 20+ processes simultaneously (especially if you have lot of extensions), so that is expected it alerts you with one popup for each additional processes created...
If you use an old browser like IE or FF (before Quantum's multi-process), the problem won't appear.

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ReHIPS / Re: HWID- computer activation managable in account settings after purchase?

« Last post by Umbra on March 20, 2020, 05:03:03 am »

The Offline activation is good enough, Fixer is quite fast to send an updated license key if the HWID changes. 

The only thing i would change is the demo, the limitation of 10 processes will reduce the user overall security while he waits the new key.

I would suggest the demo to give a time windows of 2-3 days with full ReHIPS capabilities, normally Fixer would already send the new key during this time.

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ReHIPS / Re: Ask Questions Here - ReHIPS Features & Unexpected Behaviors

« Last post by winuser on March 17, 2020, 03:37:17 pm »

Sir, not sure but I think this is what happens:

- Firefox (or maybe any other multi-process browser) is set to run isolated in Rehips
- I set Rehips to disabled mode
- I run Firefox. Since Rehips is disabled, Firefox will run as the real user (i.e. not isolated). It creates (lets say) six processes
- I set Rehips to standard mode
- I open some more tabs in Firefox, this makes Firefox create another process (now total of seven processes)
- Rehips is now enabled and tries to isolate that new "Firefox.exe" process. Rehips "separate desktop" pops up along with an error window (mentioned in the previous post)

I wonder if anybody else has noticed this. BTW, I'm not a tech savvy, maybe you're right and it's all AV's fault

ps: Does Rehips check the state of the parent process before isolating its children? I mean if the parent is "firefox.exe" in the real user account, trying to run "firefox.exe", Rehips should be smart about it and show an alert to the user, something like:
" hey dude! you have a rule to isolate that browser, it's not isolated now and is trying to run multiple instance of itself, what would you like to do? "

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ReHIPS / Re: Ask Questions Here - ReHIPS Features & Unexpected Behaviors

« Last post by fixer on March 17, 2020, 11:36:50 am »

Thank you for your report.
That's a hard thing to diagnose without having a way to reproduce it. Besides it may have nothing to do with ReHIPS like antivirus injected its DLL and something went wrong in it.
Is it reproducible? Any detailed step-by-step guide to reproduce it?
Thank you for your time.

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ReHIPS / Re: Ask Questions Here - ReHIPS Features & Unexpected Behaviors

« Last post by winuser on March 13, 2020, 11:03:39 pm »

Hi, I don't know whether it's an unexpected behavior or not:
yesterday I disabled Rehips temporarily and installed a new antivirus. to test it, I opened Firefox normally (ie not isolated) and searched for eicar test file on google, then I noticed Rehips' state and enabled it (standard mode) and went to the website (www.eicar.org I guess) but suddenly Rehips' alternate desktop poped up causing Firefox to freeze with the following error:
The Instruction at 0x[SomeNumbersHere] referenced memory at 0x00000000. The memory could not be read. Click OK to termnate the program
pressing the ok button didn't help, it poped up again and again, so I had to kill Frefox in taskmanager
OS = Windows 7 x86
Rehips = Demo v2.4
Firefox = v74 set to run isolated in Rehips

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ReHIPS / Re: HWID- computer activation managable in account settings after purchase?

« Last post by toni1982 on March 13, 2020, 03:04:04 am »

I can't see a better alternative too right now. But fact is - if this system would apply to any software, many people would stop to use computers.

Or would stop using Windows/Apple software and start running Linux.

It has it benefits, but I still want to have a little bit of my life left for other things. Windows is not as hardcore as Linux and not as restricted as Apple. I've choosen it for over 20 years for a reason. No need to start an argument over this though. All systems have their strenghts. I use Linux live and in a VM and I even have an Apple device. (iPad + good microphone for hq outdoor audio recordings with good and inexpensive Apps, a lot of battery (8+ hours) and little hassle)

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ReHIPS / Re: HWID- computer activation managable in account settings after purchase?

« Last post by Stephen on March 11, 2020, 09:42:39 pm »

I can't see a better alternative too right now. But fact is - if this system would apply to any software, many people would stop to use computers.

Or would stop using Windows/Apple software and start running Linux.

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ReHIPS / Re: HWID- computer activation managable in account settings after purchase?

« Last post by toni1982 on March 10, 2020, 06:15:08 am »

I can't see a better alternative too right now. But fact is - if this system would apply to any software, many people would stop to use computers.

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ReHIPS / Re: HWID- computer activation managable in account settings after purchase?

« Last post by fixer on March 07, 2020, 11:08:18 am »

I agree, current licensing scheme has some inconveniences. But there is no perfect solution. At least I don't see one.

Switching to online activation won't completely solve it. As deactivation may become an issue. Like my PC is dead dead, how am I supposed to deactivate my license from it. If deactivate it from another PC, it opens a path for abuse or it'll require regular online access, but even that won't completely solve it. Besides like I said we prefer offline approach and making it online just for licensing purposes is not a good thing.

So current scheme is the best compromise we could come up with.

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ReHIPS / Re: HWID- computer activation managable in account settings after purchase?

« Last post by toni1982 on March 06, 2020, 09:13:19 pm »

That's fair I guess. I'm just thinking about all the backup tools that enable you to replace the system drive without having to re-install Windows.
In case it breaks, or just when you want to upgrade to a faster and/or larger drive.

Just recently I had a serious series of issues with my computer - especially my system drive - after which I have purchased basically every backup and clone software that the market delivers - Acronis, AOMEI, MiniTool, etc.
I also have purchased a SATA Dock with two slots and a hard disk for both, where I clone my system drive twice now, with two different programs, just to decrease the chances of being unable to restore it because of a program error.
A drive is just a container. Even the mainboard is just an object that I don't want to be bound to and responsible for. Not for my own errors and especially not for the manufacturer's ones.

There could be a user that would need the tenth activation within two months already, just because of bad luck.
Or he probably can't afford a computer from the store and builds one himself out of old and used parts, that need to be replaced several times until the system is running stable.
Or the same but for a user that wants to create a customized high-end PC.

It's not that I don't trust you to reactivate my computer if something happens. But I think there could be a system that's better for both sides.