Vinzenz Feenstra’s WebLog

Hey guys,

First of all I must admit that this is not really a brand new news but ewido anti-spyware 4.0 is somehow my baby although I don’t have developed it from the beginning and I don’t have developed everything, but an huge amount of it.

So I’d like to talk about ewido anti-spyware 4.0 a little bit

Back in July 2005 I have started working as freelancer for ewido networks, the company who has started developing the ewido security suite several years ago. My first job was to implement an autostart analysis module for this version 4.0 and at this time ewido 4 has still the old graphical user interface style. About one month after starting working at ewido networks I was asked to become an employee, that was an overwhelming majority offer for me since I am just a self-educated person who has made an apprenticeship as cook, and becoming an employee as software developer was always my dream. One month later, on September 1st 2005, I was the first official employee of ewido networks and I walked on air From this time I have implemented a lot of features, and overhauled almost every code line already exist.

Now back to ewido anti-spyware 4.0 ewido anti-spyware 4.0 was released on the 19th June 2006 and has the following new features:

• Scheduled scans
• A BHO (Browser Help Objects) analysis module
• A LSP (Layered Service Provider) analysis module
• A Fileshredding module with 3 different shredding modes
• An improved and brand new User Interface
• Built in language selection
• Customizable update periods
• An internal reportviewer
• Automatic report generation options
• A new scan results view, you’re no longer irritated from popups while the scan is in progress
• An Antispy settings module
• Improved resource usage
• Translated and highly detailed and easily understandable help files
• An exception list to ignore possible false positives
• Customizable scan profiles which can be scheduled, too
• More details in the processviewer
• More details in the network connections viewer (unfortunately only in Windows XP, Windows 2000 does not support everything we’d like to show, but we’re still looking for a solution for this, because we know there is one)

Vinzenz