Free HIPS (Host Intrusion Prevention System) and Application Firewalls
Free Application Monitoring Software, Rootkit Prevention and Host-based Intrusion Prevention Systems
Free HIPS (Host Intrusion Prevention System), Application Firewalls and Monitoring Software
Software that implement HIPS, or Host Intrustion Prevention System, allow you to monitor all applications, drivers, shared libraries (DLLs), and other activities that occur on your system. For example, in Windows, HIPS software often check when programs are loaded (whether in the foreground or invisibly, behind your back, in the background), when drivers are being installed or loaded by programs, when global hooks or keyboard hooks are inserted into your system, when code is injected into another process (that is, running program) by another program, etc. Some of them allow you to prevent such programs from running and also allow you to kill (terminate) any programs that may already be running. They may be useful, for example, in helping you detect when a rootkit, keylogger, spyware or trojan is being installed into your system. Such host-based prevention systems or application and system monitoring software often work beside your personal firewalls (for the network or Internet), antivirus software and anti-spyware and anti-malware tools.
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Free HIPS (Host-based Intrusion Prevention System), Application and System Monitoring Software
- OSSEC Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System
OSSEC performs log analysis, integrity checking, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response. The Windows version also does registry monitoring. The program runs on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and any POSIX-compliant operating system. It is open source and distributed under the GNU General Public License.
- AntiHook 2.6
This Host Intrusion Prevention (HIP) program monitors the launching of applications and processes, protects against the termination of your security software (such as your firewall and antivirus software), loading of DLLs such as ActiveX controls, loading of kernel drivers (such as used by kernel rootkits), injection of code into other running programs, installation of system-wide (global) Windows hooks, and so on. Version 2.6, a Windows 2k/XP program, is free (though not the later versions).
- Winsonar
Winsonar monitors processes (programs) running on your system. If a new or unknown process is detected, it will notify the user, who can then take action such as terminating it. Note that it does not prevent the program from running, it merely notifies you and allows you to terminate it, or allows you to set it up so that it automatically kills certain programs when it starts running. It works under Windows 98, 2000 and XP.
- Samurai
Samurai is a system hardening tool with host intrusion Prevention (HIP) features. Once you enable the anti-rootkit option, it will warn you if a program tries to install a kernel driver.
- ProcessGuard Free
ProcessGuard controls application execution, protects programs from termination (to protect malware from killing your antivirus software or firewalls), protects applications from modification by other processes (code injection, etc), and protects your processes from being read or viewed by other processes. The program requires Windows 2000, XP or 2003. Note that in spite of the impression the website gives, this program does not appear to have been updated for years.
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