What is your security setup these days?

XP Home with essential services nlite


:defence
Deepfreeze
shadowdefender
Norton ghost 10


: ondemand
vmplayer with Browser Appliance Ubuntu desktop
moko5 with eeepc, thinkgos & JanusVM
id plaster plus
bcwipe
sandboxie
malwarebytes
Daphne process explorer
free ramdisk
wippien for messanger

: main browser
portable FF3
noscript,
addblocker plus,
chatzilla for irc
configuration mania
customizegoogle
distrust
Febe
flagfox
greesemonkey
keyscrambler
nightly tested tools
open in regedit
safecache
safehistory
tabmixplus
trackmenot
useragentwitch

: other browsers
k-meleon portable
opera portable


testing eqsecure and power shadow other hips,

 

Hi,

Some Changes :

Realtime

OAAV+
Mamutu
GeSWall Pro or Defensewall
Ad Muncher
RollbackRx Pro 7.21

On Demand

MBAM
SAS
Tiny Watcher
AVZ

Other

Anvir Task Manager Pro
Shadow Protect Desktop

Regards,

MaB

 

I've tried to strip down a little:

Changed
Added
Removed

Recovery - FD-ISR
Firewall - OnlineArmor Beta
Anti-Virus - Avira Premium
Browser Protection - SandboxIE
Behaviour Blocker - Winpatrol Plus
Virtual Partition - Returnil
Task Manager - Anvir Free
AS - SuperAntiSPyware
Hosts File - HostsMan
Image Restore - Acronis True Image

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

Vista Ultimate only - no XP anymore

 

mr fargoreed.may i ask why you removed FDISR ? For me its bread and butter and the main app. in mine security.

 

Vista 32 SP1 set-up "changes" in bold as of 7/30/08:

Resident:

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

On-Demand:

Autoruns(free)
AVZ Antiviral Toolkit(free)
CurrPorts(free)
GMER(free)
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free
Online Solutions Autorun Manager(free);[Installed]
Prevx CSI+
Process Explorer(free)
RegRun Reanimator(free)
Returnil 2008 Personal Edition(free)(*Note: For malware testing purposes only.);[Uninstalled]
RootKit Hook Analyzer(free)
RootRepeal(free)
RunScanner(free)
Shadow Defender(*Note: For malware testing purposes only.);[Installed]
SUPERAntiSpyware Free
System Repair Engineer(SREng);(free)

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(free)

Backup:

ERUNT(Registry Backup)
EasyBCD(free);(Recreates deleted/missing Vista boot files among other things.);[Installed]
Paragon Drive Backup
(*Note: I have disabled system restore.)

Miscellaneous:

Default 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 & 25-29)
Default Email Client - The Bat! Home
Disable UAC with TweakUAC
Disabled Windows Defender


Peace & Gratitude,

CogitoErgoSum

 

DefenseWall Hips
AppRanger
SpywareBlaster
SandBoxie

 

Now also witthout PRSC!, Have set UAC to quiet mode or OFF with TweakUAC?

 

Here is mine!!

Realtime
Dr.WEB
Norton Antibot
Windows Defender
WinPatrol
Vista Firewall Control

On Demand
MBAM
SAS
a²
Ewido micro scanner

Other
SandboxIE
SpywareBlaster
CCleaner

 

UPDATE August 1, 2008 \ ADDED, REMOVED, CHANGED

NETWORK
Two Linksys Wrt54g Routers (DD-WRT Flashed) in WDS Mode
SPI Firewall Enabled, MAC Filtering Enabled for Wi-Fi
Static IP and OpenDNS Setups for all Users

RESIDENT- XP MCE 2005 SP3 (All MS Updates Installed)
Online Armor AV+ v3 Beta 2.1.0.161 (Paid)
- Custom Bluetach Blacklists Enabled (For Global and P2P Dependent)
- RunSafer Enabled for all Browsers, Email Clients, Messengers, Media
Players, P2P Applications, Text & Photo Viewers
Sandboxie Test Version 3.29.07 (Paid)
- ForcedProcess Enabled for Email Client and all Browsers
- Automatic Delete Enabled for all Sandboxes
- Restricted Executable Settings for Firefox and Opera
A-squared Anti-Malware Beta 4.0.0.22 (Paid)
- Malware-IDS (All Enabled)
- Community Based Alert Reduction (Enabled \ Auto Rule Creation - OFF)
- Background Guard (Fully Enabled)

HARDENING & TWEAKING
Harden-It 1.2 (All Default Recommended), Bugoff 1.10 (All Enabled),
SeconfigXP 1.1 (Configured for Home), Security & Privacy Complete 3.2.1 (Custom),
Spyware Blaster 4.1 (Immunized), Sybot Search & Destroy 1.6.0.30 (Immunized),
Advanced System Optimizer (Custom), WinXP Manager (Custom)

ON-DEMAND
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.23 (Free), Avira Antivir Personal 8.1.0.326 (Free),
Dr. Web CureIt! 4.44, Ewido Micro Scanner 4.0, Prevx CSI 1.9.112.154,
Greatis Reanimator, ShadowDefender 1.1.0.168 (Trial)

OTHERS
Script Sentry 2.7.1 (All Extensions Associated), Process Explorer 11.20 (Replace Taskmgr - Enabled)
VMWare Workstation 6.0.4, KeyScrambler Personal 2.1.0.1 w/ (Firefox Plugin),
AI RoboForm Pro 6.9.90 (Paid) w/ (FF Plugin), CCleaner 2.09.600, RunScanner 1.6.1.0,
ATF-Cleaner, FileHippo.com Update Checker 1.023 (Beta), Sysinternals Suite

BROWSERS
Firefox 3.0.1 (NoScript, Adblock Plus, Adblock Updater, ShowIP, SSL Blacklist, TrackMeNot, Distrust, PhishTank & WOT),
Opera 9.52, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 (IE Pro)

BACKUP & PARTITIONING
Acronis: True Image 10, Disk Director Suite 10, & OS Selector 10*

*Always have two exact XP images on separate partitions for immediate boot & restore.

dja2k

 

Hello Kees1958,

I have temporarily uninstalled PRSC and have fully disabled UAC with TweakUAC.


Peace & Gratitude,

CogitoErgoSum

 

Hey Huupi

I've been a user of FDISR for a couple of years now, but finding that I'm using it less and less lately. Returnil 'freezes' my C:drive, Acronis True Image restores my machine exactly as I left it in as much time as it took FDISR (by the time it had actually started to copy/restore, there wasn't much in time difference to be honest), and I find that making incremental backup with ATI takes under a minute - it just seems less hassle to me. FDISR will always be an ingenious product, but I find using ATI and Returnil does the same thing, quicker. I've still got it safely backed up on a special CD in a glass case (not really ) in case I decide to install it again in the future.

 

Hello ,
These days I test GeSWall...GREAT! Thanks Aigle for the GeSWall suggestion !
" An application is trying to establish a network connection or read untrusted ressources " , "... iexplorer.exe ... Internet Explorer REDIRECT access to ... userenv.log file ... Flash Player Version ( Registry ) ... Internet Explorer READONLY access to / Device / NamedPipe / lsass ( File ) ..."
It's OK ?
Thanks , PROROOTECT

 

I use GeSWall ..
SREng ( System Repair Engineer ) : Warning ! The UserInit value in registry has changed to a abnormal value : gswui.exe ... Du you want to use System Repair Engineer to repair this value automatically ? ... Yes , No ... ?
Thanks , PROROOTECT

 

New setup on dummy PC (yup, back to XP )

Realtime:
Deep Freeze
Winpatrol
COMODO BoClean
Avira Antivir (just to make sure )
SnoopFree
SpywareBlaster
TaskKiller
Sygate Personal Firewall

On-Demand:
SAS
MBAM
Acronis True Image
ERUNT
Auslogics BoostSpeed
ComboFix
SDFix
CCleaner
Sandboxie
PeerGuardian 2
Rootkit Unhooker
HijackThis

Web Browsers:
Internet Explorer 8 beta
Flock 2 beta
Opera 9.51
K-Meleon

Hardening tools:
SafeXP
BugOff
Security and Privacy Complete
WWDC
Seconfig XP
XP-Antispy

... and occasionally PC Decrapifier and Flash Disinfector

 

AVG 8.0 PROFESSIONAL - VERY GOOD IN DETECTIONS AND CLEANING OF VIRUSES, WORMS AND TROJAN.

NORTON ANTI BOT - THE BEST BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS PRODUCT ON THE PLANET

SAS - BEST IN DETECTING AND REMOVING SPYWARE AND OTHER MALWARE

SPYWAREBLASTER & SPYBOT - PREVENTION

AVG + NORTON ANTIBOT + SAS = TOTAL SECURITY PROTECTION

 

OS:
Vista Home Premium SP1

Realtime:
Defensewall 2.45
Vista SP1 built-in security (FW,AS,UAC)

ON-Demand
Dr.Web Cureit
SAS Free

Is this OK?

 

NO!
It can't be.
It's not complicated enought for this forum.

Hugger

 

@Ohmy
You don't need more. Maybe a freezing app like Returnil, if you want to, but you can live without it.

 

I am still always amazed by these posts of 20 or more applications. Not sarcastic, just amazed. But I also use to be like that. Well, for me, 7 weeks of the same and no hits, which is pretty cool as I am getting into testing different malware. I must say that AVs still have their place, but it is in a secondary role now.

 

I am amazed that it's been 7 weeks for you with the same app.

 

already 7 weeks! I can't believe how fast time passed by! Congrats trjam

I think most of us go through the "layer over layer" at some point of our paranoic wilders membership. But with time you learn to trim things down a bit...

 

Slight change....................

Active
Look'n'Stop
DrWeb
DefenseWall
Sandboxie
AntiBot

On-Demand
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

Hardening
Seconfig Xp
SpywareBlaster

Hardware Firewall
AlphaShield

Opera
OpenDNS

 

Haha. I may have more than 20 security apps on my 'dummy' machine, but I'm just testing them out if they're all compatible.

BTW prior to this, I used Linux and loved it.
Just wanted to go back to XP, since the safety provided by Linux kinda bored me out

 

A quick change:

Had to replace OnlineArmor Beta as it was causing real problems on my setup. Anvir Task Manager also causing major slowdowns compared to ProcessExplorer. System running beautifully again now.

Changed
Added
Removed

Firewall - Comodo Pro 3 with Leak Protection only
Anti-Virus - Avira Premium
Browser Protection - SandboxIE
Behaviour Blocker - Threatfire
Virtual Partition - Returnil
Task Manager - ProcessExplorer
Hosts File - HostsMan
Image Restore - Acronis True Image

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

Vista Ultimate only - no XP anymore [/QUOTE]

 

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