He still regularly visiting (even few hours ago) PID beta testing forum. I guess he is just busy.

Good to know he is active, was kinda scared, it's a great project.
When did u received your last build btw? Mine in from march.

last beta build went out 03/10/2013 - so 3 days ago, if you were on the beta email list you should have gotten it... due to having very little free time, i dont check the forums much, emails are checked regularly though, so email and the beta forum is the best place to 'catch me'

Thanks for the shout and update, you'll receive a mail pretty soon next week, just have to sort out some stuff.

Yeah! latest beta I received in my mail box.. 2013/10/03 :p

which one is latest i have 0.6.5.3

6.5.3 october 03/10/2013 oddly enough (i didnt update version numbers as its beta build, so the build date usually implies build time, that sounds like a good reason doesnt it?... except the truth is i forgot heh, so thankfully i put in the build date too)

i have managed old version 0.6.4.0 to win-7, its too old Waiting for updated version.

old version (public) was 6.4.0 - with the known (and fixed for ages) win 7 bug, just run it in compatability mode, its fine then (bug in the os detection caused it), the next public release definitely has that fixed, but for win8 windows defender (in its infinite wisdom) flags pid as suspicious, which requires it to be 'excluded' - i tried contacting microsoft on this but got absolutely nowhere.. so i'll make a note about that in the public release documentation, once its out, then pid 7 starts (fresh)

pid have a disable create shortcut in desktop? 6.4 or upper

yes, you can enable it in the settings.

and its off by default now too, the next release (lets say its probably christmas time)... will have a lot of fixes and things that were done (based on feedback) but never went live as the project sort of 'paused' when cdkiller vanished..

we have plantly Packer detector, so we feel enouth for it, we don't need total too much bullshit. so plan to release or say no it's up to yourself, not important.

i plan a christmas public release like i said, with updated signatures and so on... then the move to pid 7 is planned... if you dont like it, then simply dont download it... its not that difficult

ProtectionID 6.5.5 - halloween public release 31/10/2013

Hi, heres the 6.5.5 public release, a lot of bugfixes and tweaks (incl the win 7 one which i still get emails for), and some new additions,
hopefully you'll like it... the last final version is probably going to be on christmas, where i will add anything missed, and fix any outstanding
bugs, then its a switch to developing pid 7 which will be quite different (and various flavors for people who just want the scanning etc)

so, please send the bug reports in for this version to the usual email address and i'll make sure to include them to the next public release (most likely 24/12/2013)

and as usual, thanks to the beta team and those who supplied files, you helped make protection id what it is today...

cdkiller - if you see this, get in touch please m8

below is the long list of the fixes / updates some were lost but this is about all i can remember doing :)

[virus total results]

https://www.virustotal.com/en-gb/file/58863c3654db45df49444fafde26ef03a2411ba305dee858cd8c9ae36c4ad415/analysis/1383250270/

SHA256: 58863c3654db45df49444fafde26ef03a2411ba305dee858cd8c9ae36c4ad415
File name: protection_id.exe
Detection ratio: 2 / 46
Analysis date: 2013-10-31 20:11:10 UTC ( 0 minutes ago )

* Microsoft VirTool:Win32/Obfuscator.AX
* Bkav HW32.TsCabk.cyiu

both of the detections are false positives...

the microsoft one i've known for a while (windows 8 windows defender blocked protection id during some tests, and i had 1 email about this), so
please add it to be excluded (provided the sha256 hash matches the above one

Bkav i had never heard of until today...

have fun, hope to hear back,
Download: http://pid.gamecopyworld.com/ProtectionId.655.halloween.2013.rar