Is this adequate protection for work/home PC

[PhoenixWeb]

Hi

I am a website designer so my PC is central to my work. With this in mind and also the security of my customer's information (stored on my PC), I just want to check to see whether the security measures I have settled on are adequate.

My current set up is:

Firefox (NoScript)
Thunderbird (Email forwarded through GMail for spam filtering)
Comodo Firewall
AntiVir Personal Premium
SUPERantispyware Pro
ProSecurity Free
Windows automatic updates ON

I also use Bitdefender Free, and AVG Antispyware Free, on demand. In addition I backup my hard drive with Acronis True Image twice a week.

What do you think? Good? Adequate? Poor? Anything missing? Overkill?

Thanks in advanced

[lodore]

sounds like a great setup to me.
lodore

[lucas1985]

Perhaps a little overkill. Antivir PE Premiun detects PUPS, SAS Pro detects PUPS too.
Comodo overlaps with PS free.
I think that your setup is pretty good.

[sweater]

U can also adds SpywareBlaster, Harden-IT, SafeXP, and Windows Worm Doors Cleaner. ;)

[Pedro]

You've got to that point where it's all opinions. I agree with the others, if you're comfortable with that (know what they do, how to use them), you're fine.
Just take a peak at the concept of sandboxing, and see if you'd drop something with that included.
Maybe you did that already

[PhoenixWeb]

-{ Quote: "Perhaps a little overkill. Antivir PE Premiun detects PUPS, SAS Pro detects PUPS too.
Comodo overlaps with PS free.
I think that your setup is pretty good." }-

The reason I went with the ProSecurity Free as well as Comodo firewall was I ran the dfk-threat-simulator-v2, and I was shocked at how easily it terminated Antivir PE Premiun, and SUPERantispyware Pro, and pretty much bypassed CyberHawk (since removed).

I ran the test again with ProSecurity Free and nothing was terminated and no threats even got going...

[lucas1985]

You could reduce the overlap disabling redundant features in Comodo such as "Behaviour Analysis" and "Component Monitor".

[PhoenixWeb]

-{ Quote: "You've got to that point where it's all opinions. I agree with the others, if you're comfortable with that (know what they do, how to use them), you're fine.
Just take a peak at the concept of sandboxing, and see if you'd drop something with that included.
Maybe you did that already" }-

Do you know what, that is what I am starting to realise, and I know how everything I have works, and I feel confident with it.

I did try sandboxing, but I download/install quite a bit of software and music/video files, and it was driving me crazy as I was having to restart my PC all the time etc...

[PhoenixWeb]

-{ Quote: "You could reduce the overlap disabling redundant features in Comodo such as "Behaviour Analysis" and "Component Monitor"." }-

Thanks! That's an excellent idea, if they overlap I may as well...

[Pedro]

-{ Quote: "Do you know what, that is what I am starting to realise, and I know how everything I have works, and I feel confident with it.

I did try sandboxing, but I download/install quite a bit of software and music/video files, and it was driving me crazy as I was having to restart my PC all the time etc..." }-

GeSWall and DefenseWall let you download whatever you want. Check them out, either here (plenty of threads) or at their websites.

[lodore]

well antivir should have self protection soon.
I belive nick who makes superantispyware is impumenting selfprotection in to superantispyware soon as well.
kernal mode online armour is out soon.
that could replace quite a few apps if you willing to try it.
www.tallemu.com
lodore

[Tarq57]

Personally I like the idea of having windows updates set to "notify, but don't download or install". There's stuff you (and I ) might not want. IE7 was released as a priority security upgrade, for example. There's other stuff that sometimes just mightn't be applicable.

[PhoenixWeb]

-{ Quote: "Personally I like the idea of having windows updates set to "notify, but don't download or install". There's stuff you (and I ) might not want. IE7 was released as a priority security upgrade, for example. There's other stuff that sometimes just mightn't be applicable." }-

I have it set up to notify, although I usually download most things... Working with websites, I had already downloaded the beta version of Internet Explorer to play with, but I only use it for testing websites.

[The Hammer]

I might have gotten the Antivir Suite and removed Commodo thats all. Simply to reduce the number of Apps thats the only reason.