System Safety Monitor 2

System Safety Monitor (SSM) allows you to track down Microsoft Windows operating system activity in real-time and to prevent undesirable actions from various malware and spyware programs. SSM's main goal is to discover and block malicious actions of any application.

Review SSM forms at screenshots page.
Download trial SSM installation from downloads page.

Main features

SSM keeps track of the activity of all applications already started or being started and allows you to:

• control which application can be started;
• control which child application can be started by a selected one;
• control which parent applications are allowed to start a selected one;
• control whether a selected application is allowed to start if it was modified;
• control whether a selected application is allowed to install a driver;
• control whether a selected application is allowed to perform code-injection or DLL-injection;
• control creation/termination of processes (applications);
• control suspension/resuming of processes;
• watch the list of DLLs loaded by a selected application;
• control low level disk access; (v2.1+)
• control low level keyboard access; (v2.1+)
• detect and terminate hidden processes (rootkits); (v2.2+)
• protect any target process (application) against various actions; (v2.1+)
• control which applications are allowed/disallowed to access network; (2.2+)
• automatically update rules for digitally signed applications; (v2.2+)
• create/modify application groups to simplify rule management. (v2.2+)

Tracking and blocking changes in the following important operating system parts:

• Windows registry;
• drivers and services state;
• INI-files;
• "Startup" item of Start menu;
• Microsoft Internet Explorer settings.

Window management:

• watches running applications windows;
• maintain "black list" of applications windows, closes "unwanted" applications windows automatically;
• browses the list of applications windows created in the system;
• shows invisible applications windows, hides visible ones, enables user input for "locked down" applications windows.

What's new

Review the full list of changes, fixed bugs, and improvements at release notes page.

System requirements

• CPU: Intel Pentium or compatible, 150 MHz or higher;
• Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000(SP4+)/XP(SP1+)/2003, Microsoft Windows 98/Me (free edition only);
• RAM: minimum 128 Mb;
• Hard drive: minimum 50 Mb free.

Features Checklist

Features	SSM 2.3	SSM 2.1	SSM 2.0 Free Edition
Process monitor	advanced	advanced	basic
Registry monitor	advanced	advanced	basic
Basic Network Firewall	yes	N.A	N.A
Low level disk access control	yes	yes	N.A
Low level keyboard access control	yes	yes	N.A
Targeted Process Protection	yes	yes	N.A
Hidden Process (Rootkit) Detector	yes	N.A	N.A
Windows & WinEvent hooks module	yes	N.A	N.A
Layered Service Provider (LSP) module	yes	yes	N.A
NT services monitor	advanced	advanced	basic
Driver loading tracking	yes	yes	yes
Global hooks tracking	yes	yes	yes
Startup menu monitoring	yes	yes	yes
IE settings tracking	advanced	advanced	basic
INI-files tracking	yes	yes	yes
Window monitor	yes	yes	yes
Learning mode	yes	yes	yes
Installation mode	yes	N.A	N.A
Application Groups	yes	N.A	N.A
Fast user switching support	yes	limited	N.A
User friendly app activity dlg	yes	yes	N.A
Automatic rule checksum update for digitally signed files	yes	N.A	N.A
Support priority	high	high	low
Development priority	high	ceased	low
Free upgrading to	2.x	2.x	free edition only
Win9x support	N.A	N.A	yes
Win2K (SP4+) support	yes	yes	yes
WinXP (SP1+) support	yes	yes	yes

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