What is your security setup these days?

I have maybe 1-2MB free Actually, only KAV and Outpost use a fair amount of resources. All the rest are either very light or on-demand only.

 

It must be a hard job to keep this zoo up to date

 

NAT Router

Resident:
OA 3.1.0.26 beta (Firewall and Program Guard)
Avira Premium (Guard set to write only)
LinkScanner Pro

Tiny Watcher on Startup

On Demand:
MBAM, SAS

Browsing:
Firefox w/NoScript
SandBoxie
Spyware Blaster

Restore/Recovery:
IFD
FD-ISR
Returnil

 

added MalWareBytes AntiMalWare Pro and SpyWare Blaster

 

Hi everyone,

Security these day :

ZA Pro 8.0.298.004
Avira Antivir Premium

Running fine one Vista Business x64.

Regards,
Rules

 

Have you set your internet facing aps to RUNSAFER with OA?

 

Active/Realtime
Look'n'Stop 2.06
Prevx Edge 3.0.1.17
DefenseWall 2.50 2.51

On Demand
CureIt
MBAM
Sandboxie

Hardning
Seconfig Xp

Hardware Firewall
AlphaShield

Opera
Open DNS

 

Hi All

My PC

Comodo Firewall Plus
Avast Home Free

My wifes Laptop

Comodo Firewall Plus has just been replaced by Online Armour Free
Avast Home Edition

 

ACTIVE (behind router)

Eset Nod32 AV 4
Prevx Edge
SandboxIE with Chrome/Opera 10/Firefox

ON-DEMAND (rare)

a-squared free
MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
SUPERAntiSpyware Free
Winpatrol

BACK UP/RECOVERY (weekly)

Image For Windows/Image For DOS
Backup4all for files

 

First laptop behind router

VISTA Home Premium
Real Time:
Windows Firewall
LUA + SRP
ACL tweaks

On Demand:
Antivir free
AVZ
MBAM

Progs&Tools:
FireFox with AddBlock Plus and NoScript
Ccleaner
Secunia PSI

Backup:
Macrium Reflect free for system recovery
SyncBack for data backup
both on external drive

Second laptop: same configuration with XP Home

 

XP SP3:

LUA
Router
Online Armor (Web Shield turned off, RunSafer unknown programs by default)
Sandboxie (for all internet facing and office applications, media players, acrobat reader)

On-demand scanners:
Avira AntiVir Premium
A-Squared Free
TrojanHunter
SuperAntiSpyware
Malwarebyte's AntiMalware
Subelt Vipre Rescue

Windows 7:

Router
UAC (set to maximum)
Windows Firewall
DefenseWall

On-demand scanners:
Windows Defender
Avast Home Free
Malwarebyte's AntiMalware
Spybot Search & Destroy

Various antirootkit programs for both OS.
CCleaner for getting rid of the junk
Eraser for secure delete
KeePass and TrueCrypt for obvious reasons

 

A little bit of work. The anti-rootkit scanners aren't updated very much (if at all). The AVG anti-rootkit is not available anymore. It was combined with their main program. I mainly concentrate on keeping my upfront to protection up to date. I will update a scanner before I use it.

 

Realtime:
Online Armor Premium (last public beta .26),
DefenseWall HIPS v2.51 PL (pre-release)

On-demand:
Avira AntiVir Personal,
MBAM,
ShadowProtect Desktop.

I am very happy with this setup

 

Realtime:
AVG 8.5 Free (very light AV )
COMODO Firewall w/ Defense+
Returnil
SpywareBlaster


On-Demand:
Sandboxie
MBAM
SAS
Macrium Reflect (testing)

 

Simple & Effective Yet Still:

:ACTIVE:

Real-Time Defender (hardly mentioned anymore)
ProcessGuard 3.5 (effective as always)
Script Trap (plain-jane but useful)
Mamutu (a real Behavioral Blocker)
Kerio 2.15 (this is insane, since Win 98, this FW still does the job right enough on XP Pro)

:ON DEMAND:

DriveSnapshot (the achilles heel against anything)
AVZ AntiViral Kit (always updated)
NOD32 (kept updated regularly)
MBAM (routine periodic scans)
Sandboxie (no-brainer)


That's all folks.

Untill Windows 7 is released, quite pleased with XP Pro SP2 AS-IS!

 

So are you going to switch to and get Windows 7 as soon as it comes out Easter?

 

Sandboxie, Avast Free and SpywareBlaster. That's all and that's probably going to be all for the foreseeable future.

 

:New Addition:

AVG AV ( free )

This is a radical turn for me. I haven't used AVG since before when XP very first was released on Windows 98 ( AVG 6 )

Contrary to the pros and cons i just had to discover for myself how far along they've come. It's a tad bit heavy but much lighter then in times past and i see it doesn't clash either with Real-Time Defender, Sandboxie, or Mamutu, so it should settle in this arsenal of mine satisfactory.

Avira & NOD32 which i also hold licenses to are quicker & lighter in comparison, but i'm intrigued in the way AVG seems to READ with determination the files it scans and it found a Zlob variant in my Windows folder of which i'm going to confirm it's authenticity today.

As efficient as NOD32 & Avira is been, i decided to examine AVG for the first time in many years and so far it's not bad. AVG was a long time favorite of mine on Win 98 but as trends go, it's received a back-burner position for me in light of the others, but nonetheless, this is a new change in conduct i'm taking.

It's up to AVG to prove it's useful enough to settle on and so far it seems satisfactory.

Anyone have any opinions on AVG as to it's standing in the AV circles today?

EASTER

 

Based on the most recent on-demand comparisons in Av-comparatives:

http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2008_08.php

AVG garnered "ADVANCED+" with 94.3%.
Suprisingly higher than NOD32's result.

It's a decent AV+AS bundle.
I installed it without the LinkScanner module.
Doesn't hog my system down as much as NIS 2009 or KAS.

 

cool info thanks

 

LUA + SRP
Hardware Firewall
Sandboxie
Returnil
Iron browser
True Crypt container for sensitive data
Keepass

Antivir PE (on demand)
Seagate DiscWizard for system partition backup
Daily differential backup of data partition

 

Agreed it's better then before many versions that preceeded it. I still only use it on-demand or in high traffic areas where jaywalkers might be present. LOL

Avira & NOD32 still hold sway in my camp but AVG is right there among them so long as theres no degrade in performance.

EASTER

 

is avg faster than avira?

 

On my XP Pro machine AVG appears slightly slower, in other samples it seems to scoop them right up. So my answer & results can't really determine at this point which of the two we're concerned about is actually faster then the other. I need to conduct more testings and do an overview of their respective response factors.

EASTER