What is your security setup these days?

yeap

 

Vista SP1 x32

Realtime:
Defensewall HIPS
Shadow Defender (Shadow Mode)
Vista built-in firewall, UAC

On-Demand:
SUPERAntispyware Free
Naver PCGreen (Kaspersky engine)

Others:
Opera
Acronis True Image Home

Is this bit of an over kill?

 

ok her it is.. I am new to this security stuff.. but i am learning..

Online Armor Free
Drive Sentry Free
Process Guard
SuperAntiSpyware Free
Avira AntiVirus Free
ThreatFire (BOOOOOOO SYMANTEC.. I HOPE YOU FRICKEN CHOKE))

soon to be replaced by

Online Armor V3 (Paid Version)
Drive Sentry (Paid Version)
Process Guard
SuperAntiSpyware Pro (Paid Version)
Avira AntiVir Premium (Paid Version)
a2 Anti-Malware

any ideas??

Thanks guys.. keep your head down and the ammo hot..

 

Returnil Premium or Sandboxie, to virtualize the Web surfing.

 

NOW:
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Hardening: Blkviper Service pruning + Xp-Antispy + Harden-IT + DCOmbulator + killbits from Spywareblaster & Spybot Search & Destroy

FW: Look'n'Stop with ARP and Edit Raw Rule plugins using Phant0m ruleset (because it eats little cpu/mem/network speed, which I like)

AV: Eset 3.0 (because for me it's been a set/forget, no problems, no conflicts, no crashes, no bugs and very small system performance hit)

Browser: Firefox through Proxomitron with Sidki ruleset and personal filters. Noscript add-on for some sites.

AM: Windows Defender with SpyNet (testing based on recommendations)

On-demand: SuperAntispyware + Ewido Micro + Avira Antivir free

CONSIDERING:
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FW: Jetico v2 (due to it's performance and acceptable performance hit)

AV: Avira Antivir Premium (my NOD32 license is coming up, want to trial others before deciding)

Browser: no changes - keep upgrading filters

AM: I'll see what happens with Windows Defender. May be surpassed by HIPS

HIPS: Undecided... Looking at all the options. Can't trial them all (no time). Need something robust (no bugs, no conflicts) and fairly non-intrusive (not a gazillion of pop-ups)

On-Demand: AVK2009 (it's combination engines look like they are performing well and would probably complement Avira)

PS. I find it much more useful, if people try to open up their criteria for using each program WITHOUT resorting to "x is better than y" comparisons

 

If you use KIS on real time you don't need to install an HIPS program and a firewall, without any big resource usage.

 

Thanks. I won't touch any Kaspersky product myself with a ten foot pole. I know many love them. I wish I could (my personal reasons through search engine, I don't want to start Kaspersky fight here).

I'm also a believer in layered and non-single-point of failure type security. But for me personally there is also a trade-off in security setup and time/money/effort/learning used. Something that works fairly well, but doesn't consume all of my time/money/nerves

My setup has been running well now for years with some tweaks, but it has -imho - become outdated in terms of many 'newer' attack/exploit types that are now way too prevalent for my personal comfort.

That's why I'm considering changing. YMMV.

 

Lol, well, then you should use a behaviour blocker like Mamutu($$) or ThreatFire(free) and you can replace Ewido with MalwareBytes Anti malware

 

FW: why not considering COMODO ?

Browser: and about Opera ?

On demand: A-Squared2 + SuperAntispyware ( freeware eventually )

HIPS: I would suggest to you SSM: true that it has not again file protection ( coming ) but it's hard and flexible.

- SandBoxie or Returnil ?

 

i tried kis 2009 and it slowed browsing down too much .went back to trend IS 2008 way too better

 

I noticed slowdown only if Web Traffic protection was set to max.

 

ThreatFire - considering, but the Symantec buy-out of PCTools leaves me sitting on the fence for now (been burnt twice in a similar situation earlier). Looking into Matumu as well, thanks. SSM is on the list as well.

Comodo FW - running on my laptop, I like it. Kills network perf more than I like, which is _my_ preference. That's why I'm looking into Jetico. They are both good, imho.

Opera - I run Opera 9.x series as my 2ndary. I like firefox with it's extensions better for my needs. Still, Opera is great. I've been using it since the very early days and was a paid customer.

A-Squared2 - tried this, but uninstalled for some reason (maybe FPs, can't remember). I wish somebody still tested a combination of different on-demand scanners against known malware, but I know it's a huge amount of work. I could of course install, manually update and regularly scan with all the free antimalware apps, but for me - that gets tedious quite quickly. I can run c. 2-3 or so myself. YMMV

Thanks for all the suggestions.

 

You can read this http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-adware-spyware-scumware-remover.htm
I would suggest using MalwareBytes Anti-Malware rather than Asquared

 

comodo is practically the best choice just found it recently

 

i think if you have drivesentry you dont need avira and you also dont need process guard,cause Drivesentry is a stand alone anti/virus/spyware/hips
all in one.
Online Armor V3 (Paid Version)
Drive Sentry (Paid Version)
SuperAntiSpyware Pro (Paid Version)

this is good enough plus comon sense

 

Personally I wouldn't pick DriveSentry over Avira for Antivirus coverage.

BabysBullet68, all you need if you buy are these:
Avira AntiVir Premium (Paid Version)
Online Armor V3 (Paid Version)
SuperAntiSpyware Pro (Paid Version)

Avira and SuperAntispyware complement each other in the Spyware department very well. If anything passes Avira in spyware, SuperAntispyware will catch it.

Even if you don't buy them for a minimum setup, these are okay too:
Avira AntiVir Personal Classic (Free Version)
Online Armor V3 (Free Version)
SuperAntiSpyware Pro (Free Version)

You don't need ProcessGuard while running Online Armor and you don't need A-Squared while having SuperAntispyware.

dja2k

 

Active
Look'n'Stop
DrWeb
DefenseWall
AntiBot

On-Demand
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

Hardening
Seconfig Xp
SpywareBlaster

Hardware Firewall
AlphaShield

Opera
OpenDNS

 

Added:

Malware Defender

 

Firewall Router,Sandboxie in realtime,if going dodgy then i add Returnil,thats pretty much it.

Ondemand : MBAM and SAS and dr. WEB Cureit for my weekly scans.

 

Windows XP Home
Norton 360
Norton Antibot
A Squared 4
Spyware Doctor With Antivirus
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
Ad-Aware 2008

Only Norton 360 and Antibot is running Real-time

Windows Vista
Norton 360
Eset Nod32 Antivirus
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
SpySweeper 5.8
Windows Defender

Only Norton 360 and Spysweeper Running in Real-time

 

DefenseWall
AppRanger
Winpatrol Plus
Winsonar 2008
Zemana Antilogger
Spyware Blaster

 

My security setup ranges from at nothing-at-all stage to the everything-you-post-that-I-can-find-and-download phase!

 

meaning you at the moment are running kind of naked?with no protection at all.

 

KIS 2009
GesWall Pro
Winpatrol Plus

 

another point for winpatrol plus