What is your security setup these days?

After yet another attempt to get comfortable with running an AV, I've happily returned to the old reliable: Sandboxie and Mamutu with regular on-demand scans using MBAM, HMP, and occasionally EEK, now in the 3.0 version. Backed up with a system image just in case something somehow sneaks by.

 

you are use to the proactive protection,you feel more secure

 

I hadn't thought of it that way jmonge, but you are right, oddly enough I feel safer without a real-time AV. Maybe it's because they seem creaky, put together with rubber bands and chewing gum, strained from trying to do more than should be expected. This is just a feeling, with a heavy dose of technically meaningless metaphor, but that's how it is for me.

 

i see

 

It's a nice felling knowing you don't need it, right?

 

Well said. I feel the same...

 

Not me.

 

I feel like once I stop using AVs it will be hard to get back to one

 

Kudos.

 

Trying out WSA 14 days trial. This thing is super light! Didn't even felt the scheduled scan running!
But the latest file detection & false alarm test by av-c doesn't look good

 

I like having an AV. I generally choose a cloud AV such as WSA, PCAV or kingsoft. They seem to run a little lighter than their sig based brothers.

 

I normally dont like the feel of a antivirus on a system.The day you remove a AV is when you notice a difference in performance,Some small differences and some big depending on the systems and the Antivirus.

I am back to using a AntiVirus - Bitdefender AV Plus 2013 on two windows 7 and there both running light as a goose feather. what really impressive is the longer its on the lighter it feels, but the could be just my imagination.

 

Yep

 

Still the same setup..no complaints

 

ZoneAlarm Extreme ( in the few first hours it scared the crap out of me with the performance hit but now it's normal CPU 7 % to 20 % and ram 45 % in total

 

The song remains the same

 

Thats a perfect set up.

 

I haven't had any problems with this set up, Its here to stay for awhile unless I catch the jmonge switch up flu

 

LOL. I had the switch up flu for a while but then I found a happy medium and then did a fresh format and reinstalled the security I wanted and its like a new system again.I reimage or format at least once a year anyways,sometime more.

 

removed emsisoft antimalware i have 50 days to renew and i feel secure enough with just MbamPro and hitmanpro

 

MBAM protection enabled?

I just noticed that MBAM has a malicious website protection. Wonder when they added that? Just turned it on to see what happens, if it'll work with all the other browsing protection I have.

 

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it works and it doesnt slow down your browser and it is powerfull

 

Making MBAM your one trick pony.

 

Thats a nice addition.