av with win 7 64?

I was reading a thread yesterday on the internet, and what was being discussed was win 7 64 being secure enough so as to not need a anti-virus or sandboxing of some kind, is this true?

 

Yeah I would be interested in reading that thread, since I have dropped all real-time AV's. Keeping the Sandboxie, though.

 

If i can remember where i found it, i will post here.

 

No sandbox or Av? Of the two I only use the Av and I have 64 bit so my answer would be no as I haven't read any such thing .

 

perhaps the thread was reffering to no more than MSE and firewall. Hard to think that no security at all is enough for 7-64.

 

I think they were saying, if you lock down your browser, lua, dep, srp, and maybe something else that would be all that would be needed.

 

If you set up applocker, DEP, Windows Firewall and Windows Defender up all correctly you don't really need any extra security for Windows 7. I ran the setup for a good 2 months (even browsing some less than safe websites) and did not get any infections.

 

How do you set up the firewall and defender correctly? I thought they were on or off apps?

 

Well defender can be left on normal. But set up the firewall to block outgoing connections then manually setup policies for everything.

 

Many thanks, headed there now.