What is your security setup these days?

http://www.cnet.com.au/wireless/routers/0,239028894,240054645,00.htm

Not sure what the benefit of turning off when not using the pc is supposed to be. Do you mean every time you are not actually surfing or when you leave your pc ?

 

Not turn off, disconnect.

 

Vista 32 SP1 set-up "changes" in bold as of 7/17/08:

Resident:

DefenseWall HIPS Pre-v2.45[Upgrade]
Netgear RP614 v2 Router w/NAT & SPI
Windows Firewall

On-Demand:

Autoruns
AVZ Antiviral Toolkit
CurrPorts
GMER
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free
Prevx CSI+
Process Explorer
RegRun Reanimator
Returnil 2008 Personal Edition(*Note: For testing purposes only.)
RootKit Hook Analyzer
RootRepeal
RunScanner
SUPERAntiSpyware Free
System Repair Engineer(SREng)

System Hardening:

Applied manual system hardening tweaks
Disabled non-essential Vista services
Enabled hardware DEP for all programs and services(OptOut)
Uninstalled Java Runtime Environment
Windows Worms Door Cleaner

Backup:

ERUNT(registry)
Paragon Drive Backup

Miscellaneous:

Primary Web Browser - Opera v9.52(w/manual privacy & security tweaks);(https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=211761)
(*Note: Please take note of posts #'s 1, 19, 22-23 & 25-26)
Email Client - The Bat! Home
Disable UAC with TweakUAC
Disabled Windows Defender


Peace & Gratitude,

CogitoErgoSum

 

Just for fun of change (first time in two years home PC has a setting without DefenseWall, just playing with GeSall otherwise knowledge becomes rusty)

XP home box
- XP Firewall
- GeSWall with same additional rule as in DW to extra protect mail directories and wab, plus extra rule to deny outbound traffic of untrusted processes
- ThreatFire with extra outbound initition rule (so regular trusted programs are also monitored).

Opera as browser

Vista64 gaming box
- Vista FW (two way)
- PRSC
- Avast check on write only + boot up rootkit scan

IE in proteced mode (LUA) as browser

REgards

 

Fresh new format...
Trialing Online Armor AV+. (Tried the new AntiVir and NOD32 build before landing on OA. )

 

Vista x32:

ThreatFire 3.5
Defensewall 2.44
TheWorld Browser

 

ADDED:

K-Melon (Latest Browser) for alternative browsing & testing.

 

DefenseWall Hips 2.44
AppRanger 1.9 (new version)
Windows xp2 FireWall On
D.E.P On All Programs

 

Currently running Ubuntu on my dummy PC.
Better than ANY security setup I have done.

 

what kind of security software category is Ubuntu?

 

Ubuntu is Linux operating system.

 

thanks for repliying.
so this is not for windows operating system?

 

No it not windows. It is inherently secure, without installing a bunch security apps.

 

i see, i was thinking this software was something like ShadowDefender or Retunil.

 

My new almost free setup.

PC 1: Windows XP SP3

Acronis True Image
Avast Home
Superantispyware Pro (free thru castle cops contest last year)
Malwarebytes Antimalware
Geswall free
EQSecure 3.41
Windows firewall behind a NAT router

PC 2 : Linux

sidux 2008-02 Linux

 

Vista Ultimate SP1:

Sphinx Vista FireWall Control (adds outbound control, free version)
Windows U.A.C. (very effective antiexecutable and rootkit killer)
Hardware D.E.P.
Firefox NoScript

DeepFreeze
FirstDefense ISR-Rescue
ShadowProtect Desktop

 

Resident:
NETGEAR Router w/NAT and SPI Firewall on and UPnP set to off

Windows XP Pro SP3
===============
On-Access:
Avira AntiVir Premium
Outpost Firewall Pro 4.0.1025.7828 (700)

On-Demand:
Dr.Web CureIt!
Free ESET Online Antivirus Scanner
SuperAntiSpyware Pro (Crashes at least once daily with real-time protection enabled!?)

Other:
CCleaner
Evidence Eliminator
FirstDefense-ISR
HijackThis
IE7Pro
RoboForm
SpywareBlaster

 

Setup on main PC
Windows XP SP2 Intel Core 2 Extreme 4GB RAM:

Realtime:

Faronics DeepFreeze
Avira Antivir Premium
Sygate Personal Firewall
Winpatrol Plus
Comodo BOClean
TaskKiller
SnoopFree

On-Demand:

Acronis True Image
SAS Free
MBAM
CCleaner
SandboxIE
ComboFix
SDFix
HijackThis
Rootkit Unhooker

Hardening Tools:

MVPS HOSTS file
Safe XP
XP-Antispy
Bugoff
WWDC
Seconfig XP
Security & Privacy Complete

Browsers: (All portable)

K-Meleon
OperaTor
Avant


Setup on 'dummy' PC
Windows XP SP2 Intel Celeron M 384MB RAM:

Ubuntu

 

Just set up a new pc - Core 2 Duo E8400 3 GHz. 2 days of downloading this and that with nothing more than my Netgear for protection. Just in case I ran cureit and it found nothing - so that is what I will continue to use as security - nothing -

 

good luck

 

If you are running on Vista, UAC will take care of just about anything suspicious, and with Firefox NoScript just about all the bases are covered.

 

with all respect i think still will not secure enough
what about data or identity theft?did you think about that?
it takes one bad link to click,you know the rest.

 

dont get me wrong but security layer aproach is the way to safety world wide web.
not to naked may get the flue

 

You know this is a very old story: Nowadays there are people who won't give up the scanner approach(antivirus and antispyware), and some programs are very good at that.

There's also a different approach, that is, going sandboxed/virtualized and deny execution systematically to anything that is remotely suspicious, to repeat a very popular statement on this forum "if it doesn't execute it won't infect". If you add to this Firefox NoScript there isn't really much that can happen.

I'm personally interested in recovery applications (see my signature): It's faster to restore a system than to detect, investigate, and cleanup an infection or a configuration mistake.

 

I agree, although on XP Pro i also "can" use DEEP FREEZE by Faronic's which is excellent in everyway and perfectly stable.

FD-ISR (Classic!) is the ISR of choice on this end which i was lucky enough to heed all the hoopla that used to so dominate this entire forum for a season when it first landed on the scene.

As for backup images, in spite of SP's popularity, i get perfect images and the restores have yet to fail not a single time in many months with the little app named DriveSnapshot although i been a very long time user of PARAGON'S backup apps.

EASTER