What is your security setup these days?

PC with Vista Home Premium, fully patched.
Realtime:
Avast Pro with Network Shield, Standard Shield, Web Shield and Script Blocking.
Windows Defender, UAC and Windows Firewall off.
Behind a router with SPI capable firewall and OpenDNS as our DNS server.

On Demand:
Shadow Defender.

Backup Solutions:
Shadowprotect and syncback backing up on a External Hard Disk.

On Demand:
SAS and various bootable AV CD Roms such as Avira or Kaspersky.

Browser:
Firefox with Noscript, CS Lite, Lastpass and WOT OR K-Meleon OR Opera.

Still using Ubuntu when I want too, but I also discovered something that almost made me so stupid I didn't tried it before; SuRun!

 

NEW SETUP: removed zemana antilogger

Realtime:
- avira prem. Security suite 9 BETA
- drivesentry ----> NEW
- rollback rx

Ondemand:
- SAS
- MBAM
- spywareblaster
- sandboxie


Removed antilogger because i was having permissions issues with it not allowing me to change what is on my startup.

 

New and probably final setup:

Dr.Web av and windows xp firewall only.

I got sick and tired of all those annoyances that appear in those "alternative antimalware" solutions ...

HIPS programs ask too much and need constant tuning. I was almost able to achieve some balance with real-time defender and neoava guard but still, even simple uninstallation of a program or installation causes 1-3 popups even with decreased/lowered rules. I understand it's exactly how it's supposed to be, but after evaluating my use of computer, possible risks, surfing and etc, I really don't need such pain and fuzz.

Threatfire would be excellent but I only have options to allow or kill/quarantine the process. For example if I want to complement windows firewall by enabling a rule to monitor network connections, I can't have an application to start but only block it's access to the internet. Either it's completely allowed or killed. I almost achieved this with the old Cyberhawk but the custom rules don't work at all in those old versions.

Virtualization programs.. I've tried GesWall but it drove me crazy. If I went to "My computer", apparently everytime it checked for floppy and the drive made that "is there a floppy?" -sound.

Imaging and restoring.. never tried one of these but assume they use considerable amount of system resources while monitoring everything and requiring the hdd space.

Classic antispyware applications.. I've had Spybot S&D, Ad-aware, but these programs seem to be obsolete these days when av's can do the same. Waste of space and time I guess. Spyware probably isn't what's "cool" these days, rootkits and file infectors are the golden words or what?

With AV+Windows firewall only, I have 27 processes starting after I reboot and there's no such thing as delays in browsing, accessing files, or anything. Everything runs silk smooth and probably it would protect me if there happens ever to be a need for any protection. Sufficient is probably the correct word.

Ofcourse if there is something people could recommend me, I'll give it a try. I'm just a bit frustrated since I can see the basic problem in relying on blacklist scanner only and I do see the "flaw" in there, but simply haven't found a nice additional program to fill that "gap."

Thank you for reading and for possible suggestions

 

There's no such thing as a final setup here in Wildersworld
TBH my current setup is the best yet for me and light and conflict free,but I'll probably get the itch to play with something new soon enough.
Also imaging uses remarkably few resources considering the benefits.

 

Run Shadow protect from CD and it will use no resources, nor waste disk space and can be remarkably quick.

 

Avira Premium Security Suite 9 Beta
DefenseWall
Returnil

Runs light...minimal pop-ups from Avira's firewall.

 

AV's & AS's were bad enough for the malware bunch, but now we have Behavioral Blockers like Mamutu, HIPS galore which my favorite is of course EQS w/Alcyon's dreaded rulesets

Theres sandboxes, virtual programs, ISR's, and WHEW! the list goes on, so without further ado, no change here.

Avira (free)
ScriptTrap
Process Guard 3.5
EQS w/Alcyon's Rules (and a few of my own)
Mamutu (High-Quality Behavioral Blocker)
Kerio 2.15 (Custom Rules)

ON-DEMAND
Sandboxie 3.34
Returnil RVS

DriveSnapshot Images (stored at the ready, but never used, just updated)

"Lite as a feather" "No Issues"

 

Hey easter!How is scriptTrap faring?isn't an experimental app,that its development stopped in mid 90s? (so no chance for vista) ?

 

You can try it for Vista, i don't see any way it could hurt because it's so tiny and doesn't upset the normal balance of anything.

What i like is that you can add your favorite AV or even AS like MBAM to it for scanning scripts aborted by default before you either allow it to proceed or reject.

A very old but still reliable app.

Wish the source was open and available, because it's somewhat only limited in the extensions it covers, but it's a door slammer on the one's it does cover. And like i said, it offers to add your AV to it or AS and to a scan "FIRST", which i seen none of the others offer.

EASTER

 

Primary pc: Avira Antivir Premium 8.2 + Look N Stop + Shadow Defender + Sandboxie like in the signature

Secondary pc: Comodo Internet Security with antivirus enabled and Proactive Security config.

I am going to try the new Online Armor free when its beta out.
So it will be Online Armor + Zemana Anti keylogger + Sandboxie + Shadow Defender.
Maybe i will have some conflicts between Zemana and OA

 

I run Windows Vista, but for all internet activity I load up Sun Virtualbox which runs Ubuntu in a Vista session, hence, no concerns about virus, keyloggers, trojans, rootkits, spyware, malware etc.

 

NEW SETUP: (again...) removed DriveSentry

Real-Time:
- Avira Prem. Security Suite 9 BETA
- Mamutu ----> NEW (i always seem to go back to this in the end )
- Winpatrol PLUS
- Rollback Rx

On-Demand:
- SAS
- MBAM
- SpywareBlaster
- Sandboxie

as much as i love DS, it still has that buggy feel to it, works much better now with the new version, and they ahve fixed the rperformance issues, but its still got a bit of a bugginess to it, hope they get the program to run smooth as silk eventually.

 

Kinda risky yer n imo not needed

 

Yeah but i will use the free version of Online Armor , it doesnt have full keylogger protection. Do you have any recommendation to fill this hole? thanks

 

a keylogger has to be executed to do any harm...OA has execution control in all versions..cheers

 

Real-Time:
Comodo Internet Suite
SpywareBlaster


On-Demand:
SAS
MBAM
DriveXML


Web Browsers:
Google Chrome
Firefox 3 w/ WOT, Adblock, CS Lite

 

Hello!
Real time:
Avira AntiVir Premium 8 (English version)

On-demand:
SuperAntiSpyware Free (PL version)
Malwarebytes' Free (PL version)

Web browser:
Firefox 3

 

I hear ya! Most of your important files can be backed-up to an external drive with a simple free program such as Toucan.

I'd try Shadow Defender to complement the doctor. You could use it while you do all your browsing, or trying out software and avoid messing up your settings. Bring in Dr.Web before you decide on keeping a file/program after reboot (to keep a program/file after reboot, you just right-click and select 'commit').

No pop-ups or slow-downs either, just a clean-slate everytime you reboot.

Using:
Avira Personal
Sandboxie
Shadow Defender

 

i have on DefenseWall,SandBoxie and Prevx Edge(free version)
i want to try Shawdow Defender very soon(never tried this one)

 

Switchinh to my other favourite image

DefenseWall 2.49
Avira beta 9 (only check at writes)
ThreatFire

 

very cool kees the 2 fist are freaking cool

 

Just curious...are you using the firewall in Avira 9 or using Threatfire to control outbound?

 

Light and sweet.

 

Hi,

Online Armor v3 latest beta (Advanced mode and Webshield deactivated)
Twister Antivirus (the amazing Filseclab support fixed a conflict (BSOD) with Rollback Rx )
Defensewall 2.49
RollbackRx Pro 8.1
AdMuncher
Anvir Task Manager Pro
Tiny Watcher

MBAM
SAS
Shadowprotect

Regards,

MaB

 

No problems with OA and DefenseWall together? I had major slowdowns with both of these active.