What is your security setup these days?

Hi CJ,

Happy to meet a person with a good taste

Regards,

MaB

 

All behind a router with FW (NAT/SPI)

XP Home box wife
DefenseWall
As the incredible (even NTFS access protection) strong hassle free first line of defense (with LimeWire's shared directories as untrusted and script defende markes as untrusted)

ThreatFire with custom rules

Avast Home with WebShield, P2P shield, E-mail shield and Network shield enabled, all others stopped.

Vista64 box son
Windows defender (scan disabled, real time check only on system configuration, services and drivers, exection of aps, registration of aps, windows add-ons) and creating a restore point before user decision

Primary Response Safe Connect

Avast only forward checking on P2P/E-mail/Messenger/Network/Web, others disabled, Avira with only write control (no read control)

HauteSecure

XP Home test box
WinPooch registry and file protection
A2 Malware with IDS
Changed GeSWall Pro for SafeSpace Personnel, after my son downloaded a program from a crack site and blew the setup. Other reason is that development of GeSWall seems very slow.

Issues
Waiting desperately for a good policy sandbox on Vista64, although HauteSecure beta seems to do okay

 

Hi Kees

Care to clarify how SafeSpace would have outperformed Geswall on this occasion.

Interested, as I did like Geswall but have switched to SafeSpace running with OA Full and Returnil.

Thats it for me on topic - Returnil - SafeSpace - Online Armor

 

How did this happened?

 

Active
ESS
BoClean
DSA

Browser
Sandboxie
Firefox + No Script

On Demand
Super Anti Spyware Free
A Squared Free

 

Trying to make as simple as possible.
My signature says it all.

 

Guys, in very few words, how does SafeSpace differ from policy based Geswall and virtualization based Sandboxie?

dja2k

 

After trying different hips programs and growing very tired of the incompatabilities, slowdowns and problems, I've decided to keep what I had plus one, DefenseWall.

Resident:
AVG Pro with Firewall
DefenseWall
WinPatrol Plus
SpywareBlaster
SpywareGuard

On Demand:
SuperAntiSpyware Pro

Recovery:
BootBack
EAZ-FIX Pro

Misc.:
CookieWall
Ccleaner

All behind a Linksys Router w/firewall.

Dan

 

Just a couple of new single apps to add.

DEFENSE WALL

ONLINE ARMOR

 

Nod32 3.0566 (removed)
Avast Home (added)
Avg Antispyware (paid version)
Pc tools Firewall (Free)
D-link Router
Bluecoat k9 web protection (spysite & malware web blocking)

 

Changed
Added

Recovery - FD-ISR
Firewall - Comodo Firewall 3
Anti-Virus - Avira Premium
Browser Protection - SafeSapce
Behaviour Blocker - Norton Antibot
Virtual Partition - Returnil
AS - SuperAntiSPyware

Others:
IP Blocker - Peerguardian
Spam Filter - Mailwasher Pro
Browser - Firefox with Spoofstick, Adblock, NoScript, CookieSafe
Passwords - Keepass
Encryption - Truecrypt

This setup on both:
nLited XP with many tweaks
vLited Vista

 

NOD32
SpywareGuard
SpywareBlaster
Spysweeper
Zonealarm Pro
CCleaner

Should I add anything?

Oh, and what's a virtual partition?

 

Check out a HOSTS file it is free and uses no resources. Updated 1-2x monthly:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

 

Spysweeper consumes to many resources compared to the competition such as SAS and CounterSpy. You might want to consider a change there when your licence expires.

 

Was it a failure of GW or something else? If GW failed I will be very interested to get a sample of this malware.

 

Nod32 v3.0.566 = Realtime & Avira Classic = On Demand =Home Computer
Kaspersky Internet Security = Office
Recovery Tool= Returnil

 

What is SAS? And are both as effective in preventing spyware as Spysweeper is?

 

SAS = SuperAntiSpyware

 

Changed my AV so my current setup is:

Windows XP behind a router with hardware firewall:

1. Windows Firewall

2. KAV 7

3. Realtime Cookie & Cache Cleaner v3

4. Browser Sentinel v2.1.1

5. Ad muncher v4.71 Build 28140

Removed: NOD 3.560.0

Latest NOD has a few problems and i'm waiting a while for things to be fixed before looking at it again. KAV 7 with 6 months updates was a giveaway with the latest Computer Shopper magazine. I'll see how things go with this but i'm still always looking for something to add/replace but only if it 'improves' something in my setup.


muf

 

Firewall:
Sygate Pro

IPblocker:
Peer Guardian

Antivirus:
Avira free write only

Protection (virtual and sandboxed):
Returnil or
SandboxIE or
Safespace

Anti Spyware (on demand):
A squared free
Superantispyware
AVG Antispyware
Spyware Doctor (google pack)
Norton Security scan (google pack)

Tiny Watcher

Spyware Blaster

Firefox w NoScript, AdblockPlus

Hips:
SSM free without module protection to block some programs to start

(can't LUA because of Peer Guardian)

Last but not least common sense.

 

Finally got around to added FD-ISR FREEZE snapshot FWIW.
Malware writers are on their heels with all these latest innovations in Windows security facing them. They'll have to stick with writing code against the popular AV's if that's even of any use now that virtualization and sandboxes have recently closed even that gap. Add the renewed interests of Imaging + ISR's and it's a users market now.

In fact, there's little room left for them now so they'll have to return to ripping apps and making keygens again

On an aside, PC Security in spite of a recent vulnerabilty discovered during tests remains an integral strategy for LOCKING & HIDING my data partition where even it is covered by SandboxIE "AND" Power Shadow/Returnil watched over by EQSecure (HIPS), all this on a completely disposable but "clean" restorable FD-(ISR) snapshot courtesy it's ARCHIVE snapshot duplication/instant recovery feature.

 

Vista

Shadowdefender
Sandboxie


XP

Returnil
Sandboxie


And a crap load of licences to give away at Christmas.

 

Wow, I really like your setup.

 

...so what software are the licenses for?

 

At the moment.........