What is your security setup these days?

[1chaoticadult]

New setup below in my sig.

[jmonge]

testing ESET NOD32 Antivirus 5 with HIPS and it is very nice idea to have hips/antivirus combo like

[jaodsvuda]

A quick´n ´free (most are giveaways) setup for computer not much to be used ´till september-october :

- F-Secure Internet Security 2011 (DeepGuard on,and "strict" firewall profile)
- HitmanPro free
- Emsisoft Emergency Kit
- Zemana AntiLogger
- Mamutu
- MBAM free
- AVZ Antiviral Toolkit
- Shardana USB-stick (with GData´s,Avira´s...rescue CD´s)
- Sandboxie free

...I´m still learning...

[Francis93]

Originally Posted by jmonge

testing ESET NOD32 Antivirus 5 with HIPS and it is very nice idea to have hips/antivirus combo like

How's NOD32 j?

[LoneWolf]

DefenseWall 3.13 + Shadow Defender 1.1.0.325

[kjdemuth]

Can't go wrong with that combo wolf. Nice and light but strong

[jmonge]

Francis93 Nod32 Antivirus Beta is super light and the hips is what i like the most alitle chatty in interactive mode but it's ok

[1chaoticadult]

Originally Posted by jmonge

Francis93 Nod32 Antivirus Beta is super light and the hips is what i like the most alitle chatty in interactive mode but it's ok

Suppose to be chatty in interactive mode, thats a part of what that means J

[raven211]

After testing without liking the product I always come back to either Norton or PCAV, depending on if I need a free solution or not.

I uninstalled ESET Smart Security 5 Beta and decided to give my other all time favourite antivirus company's product a try: Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 Beta.

My opinion about KIS 2012 Beta (in comparison to KIS 2011):

• greatly reduced the performance impact on my pc, which was my biggest complaint about KIS 2011;
• I really love the new interface, it is the best I have ever seen for a security application. Way better than BitDefender's new interface in the 2012 version, which I absolutely dislike, but others like it somehow;
• improved general user experience (for example faster installing, faster initial signature update).
• However, full scans are still desperately slow for some reason (just like I experienced with KIS 2011);
• a patheticly slow Internet Explorer 9 extension: IEVkbdBHO;
• Kaspersky seriously should reintroduce the custom installation so can opt from bloat (Virtual Keyboard, Anti-Banner, Parental Control).

EDIT: I guess this won't survive long, stuck for minutes at scanning notepad.exe, stuck for minutes at scanning regedit.exe; 9 hours scanning time remaining. Just like I experienced with KIS 2011. A shame for a release which is great apart from this.

[AlexC]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

DefenseWall 3.13 + Shadow Defender 1.1.0.325

Great setup IMO.

Interesting to notice that some of the real top security programs are "one man show"!

- Sandboxie: Tzuk
- DefenseWall: Ilya Rabinovich
- Shadow Defender: Tony

[Avast]

Avast Internet Security (AIS)
Counterspy (CS)
Spywareblaster
Spywareterminator
ClearCloudDNS

[Essentials]

1. Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
   • User Account Control (UAC): max settings & standard account
   • Applocker
   • Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 2.1.0: Maximum Security Settings

     Data Execution Prevention (Opt Out);
     Structured Exception Handling Overwrite Protection (Opt Out);
     Address Space Layout Randomization (Opt In);
     

2. F-Secure Internet Security 2011
3. Sandboxie 3.55.08 64bit
4. Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI)
5. Sandboxed Firefox 4: WOT, Adblock Plus (Pop-up Addon, Fanboy´s List, Malware Domains), LastPass.
6. Norton DNS

[Groovy T]

Originally Posted by Matthijs5nl

I uninstalled ESET Smart Security 5 Beta and decided to give my other all time favourite antivirus company's product a try: Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 Beta.

Hello, You said you've uninstalled eset 5 beta but you didn't give your thoughts like you did for kaspersky 2012. You tried the both and i'm interested of your opinion about those 2; they are my favourite too

Thanks

[BenMar522]

Originally Posted by Avast

Avast Internet Security (AIS)
Counterspy (CS)
Spywareblaster
Spywareterminator
ClearCloudDNS

I am interested in adding ClearCloudDNS. Does it slow down your browser at all?

[Konata Izumi]

Keepin it simple today. Default-deny/sandbox setup.

Standard User Account + EMET + UAC + Parental Controls + Sandboxie FREE

• Only Sandboxie allowed to RUN via Parental Controls.
• Sandboxie shortcuts acts as a launcher for any apps I want to run that is not allowed in Parental Controls.

thus no program can run un-sandboxed in my standard user account. pretty tight and light, just boring.
suggestions?

[AlexC]

Originally Posted by Konata Izumi

Keepin it simple today. Default-deny/sandbox setup.

Standard User Account + EMET + UAC + Parental Controls + Sandboxie FREE

• Only Sandboxie allowed to RUN via Parental Controls.
• Sandboxie shortcuts acts as a launcher for any apps I want to run that is not allowed in Parental Controls.

thus no program can run un-sandboxed in my standard user account. pretty tight and light, just boring.
suggestions?

Very creative ideia!

[Konata Izumi]

Originally Posted by AlexC

Very creative ideia!

thanks but I think I missed something as I still have to run as admin those Sandboxie shortcuts.

maybe I should make UAC silent or remove it completely... or I don't know... my brain is dead, going to sleep. bye.

[Noob]

My current setup is EAM v6 + OA v5

[jmonge]

i am doing alitle experiment and it is to run these 2 together

[jmonge]

it didnt work

[blasev]

How's EAM 6 noob? I can't wait the open beta

Konata u've a wonderful idea

[jmonge]

are they going to run a beta of a-square?thanks

Originally Posted by Groovy T

Hello, You said you've uninstalled eset 5 beta but you didn't give your thoughts like you did for kaspersky 2012. You tried the both and i'm interested of your opinion about those 2; they are my favourite too

Thanks

On my system I actually didn't notice any difference in performance between ESET 4.2 and 5 Beta, both are among the lightest security applications. The interface and user experience/usability improved. I can't say how much/whether protection has improved, such most improvements are really under the bonnet: more cloudcomputing, revamped Internet protection (new module), HIPS which I have never seen doing anything in automatic mode (HIPS is heavily dependant on how much it will evolve over time). Personally I don't perceive any added value from the parental controls, I would love an option to not install that module (disintegrating works quite good though). I didn't experience major problems while using (however upgrading from 4.2 failed (Web access protection)), only I had a bunch of weird firewall messages (is a thread about in the ESET beta forum).
My conclusion is: the user experience/usability is great, a little improved over the already good 4.2. And time will tell how much the protection has improved.

KIS 2012 beta: see previous post
The scans are are really slow on some dll's and exe's in the Windows folders (regedit.exe and notepad.exe most notably) but after it has done those scanning suddenly speeds up again. However it is still too slow (1 hour and 2 minutes for a full scan where as ESET does that in 36 minutes and avast! even faster). That has to improve.
I am happy with the performance improvement over version 2011, which is great and really was necessary. In future updates they should futher improve the performance.
Protection has always been great and recent test show KIS is still top-notch.
But to make me buy KIS (next to the ESET license I own) they really have to reintroduce the custom installation. It just contains too much bloatware I don't want.

If they reintroduce the custom installation and further improve the performance (and ofcourse continously keep improving protection) I will buy a license again. After years of hating KIS, this is a great release with a lot of potential.

[Amit]

My setup:

1. Avast Antivirus free
2. Comodo firewall with defense plus
3. Malwarebytes Antimalware free
4. Superantispyware free
5. Prevx free
6. Hitman Pro free
7. Panda USB Vaccine
8. HiJackThis
9. Secunia PSI
10. Firefox with addons- adblock plus, betterprivacy, bitdefender quickscan
11. Easeus Todo Backup Home

What do you guys think?.......

My pc is acer netbook.
RAM: 1GB