What is your security setup these days?

He means he's using G-Data again.

 

Thanks, Tony. That seems obvious now that I read it again.

 

My laptop:

Vista Ultimate32 SP2,Windows firewall, UAC on, Windows Defender off.
Faronics Anti-Executable v 3.40, Shadow Defender, ShadowProtect Desktop v 3.5
Google Chrome + Ad Muncher v 4.8

My netbook:

Windows XP Pro SP3, Look'n'Stop firewall, Avira Antivir Premium.
Shadow Defender, ShadowProtect v 3.5
Windows IE8

 

Desktop- Vista HP
Defensewall
VIPRE
ZoneAlarm Pro
Norton UAC Tool
Spyware Blaster
Browsers- Opera, Google Chrome, Firefox

On demand- Hitman Pro, Malwarebytes

Laptop-Vista Basic
Avira Premium
PC Tools Firewall 6
Spyware Blaster
Prevx free
Browsers- Firefox, SRware Iron

On demand- Malwarebytes, Hitman Pro

 

Latest Setup

Nat Router
Online Armor ++
Defensewall 2.56

 

Active
DefenseWall 2.56
Shadow Defender 1.1.0.278

On-Demand
Prevx 3.0.5.3
A-Squared 4.5.0.27
Malwarebytes AntiMalware 1.41

System Hardening
SeconfigXp 1.1

Imaging
Macrium Reflect 4.2

OpenDNS
Opera10

 

Prevx 3.0.1.65
ShadowDender 64 bit Beta

 

On-access:
- Symantec Endpoint Protection <-- from work
- Prevx

On-demand:
- Hitman Pro
- A-squared Free

Browser:
- Opera
- OpenDNS
- Keyscrambler (for IE only)

 

DefenSeWall Personal FireWall v3 Beta
MalWare Bytes AntiMalWare Pro 1.41
System Safety Monitor Pro 2.4

 

Sandboxie
Defensewall
Prevx
Router
Surun.


I'm set.

 

Hardware router FW
** basics
- NAT/SPI FW
- WPA2 longest key possible (a sentence
- SSID changed, IP address of router console changed
- SSID is not broadcasted (so called inviisible)
- Anti spoofing control on (all)
- no ping respond from WAN side
- UPnP disabled
- changed names and password of Admin, removed User
- added a PIN-number for WIFI device access
** trick bits
- Mac Address control
- Static IP addresses
- Access to router (WAN/LAN) limited to our used IP addresses (others denied)
- Inbound filter on our own static IP addresses
- Open DNS basic used for DNS server IP addresses

Internet Provider
- checks e-mails (Avast and Clam )

PC1 - no questions asked family PC
Real time protection
** running LUA (free no CPU cycles eating free security) on XP home
- using PGS and FAjoXPFSE and msi-runas registry hacks
- see https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=256561

** DefenseWall v3 as HIPS/FW focussing at threat gates and downloads
- using Ie8 for "Safe banking/shopping mode" of DW
- added keyscrambler free for IE8 (display scramble on tray icon only)
- using Chromeplus for daily browsing (DW denies access to all data partitions) only allowed to access Temporary and Download directory

On demand
- A2 Free, using A2CMD for update every 4 hours
- Hitman Pro free
- Autostarts free (using save and compare to check new arrivals).

Backup/Restore
- external (mostly) offline harddisk) for monthly backups
- internal old drive for quick backup (weekly)
- paragon for image backup/restore (with recovery CD)
- synchback for backup/synchronisation of data files

Seems a lot, but it boils down to one main application: DefenseWall

PC2 - gaming PC
** All CPU cycles saved for gaming **
- Vista64 bit UAC on
- Norton UAC tool 64
- PGS deny execute (is 64 bits)
- Immunet 64 bits (only checks at installs)
- IE8 as browser fully Micro-softened with Bing/MSN/etc

- same on demands as PC1 plus Sanity Check anti rootkit for Vistax64

PC3 - playing PC
** can be different tomorrow **
- XP Pro SP3 - LUA (same as PC1 without Fajo and PGS)
- Commodo Time Machine Beta
- GeSWall Pro (currently limited to few nasties like PDF reader, Outlook Express and a SBIE recovery directory)
- Sandboxie with Opera

 

Forgot to add WOT, Noscript and Adblock Plus as my Firefox extensions.

 

# Avast 5 (without faulty web shield)
# AVG LinkScanner
# Windows FW
# LUA

 

added - to be removed soon - removed

Avira AntiVir Personal
DefenseWall
Flushflash
Malwarebyte's AntiMalware
Online Armor Premium
TrojanHunter
Sandboxie
Shadow Defender
ShadowProtect
SpyReveal
SUPERAntiSpyware
R-Wipe & Clean
XP-AntiSpy
Zemana AntiLogger

 

Full List - October 26, 2009 - Updated , Added , Removed

Vista Home Premium SP2 (UAC OFF \ WD OFF)

Network
Two Linksys Routers (DD-WRT Firmware) in WDS Mode
WEP 128-Bit Encryption & Wireless MAC Filtering Enabled
SPI Firewall Enabled

Resident
Online Armor ++ 4.0.0.7 Beta (Paid)
Sandboxie 3.41.01 Beta (Paid)

On-Demand
Shadow Defender 1.1.0.278 (Paid)
Active@ Disk Image 3.2.6 (Paid)
VMWare 6.5.3 Workstation (Paid)

Browser, Immunization, Tweaks
Firefox 3.5.3 (Ad-Block Plus, CustomizeGoogle, Better Privacy, TACO, WOT, ShowIP, TrackMeNot)
KeyScrambler Personal 2.5.0 & RoboForm Pro 6.9.95 (IE & FF)
Malware Patrol's Block List (via Hosts File)
Bluetack Blocklists (Level 1,2,3 for P2P)
Spybot Search & Destroy 1.6.2 (Full Immunization w/ Global Hooks)
Spyware Blaster 4.2 (All Protection Enabled + Customblocking.txt)
Vista Services Optimizer 1.1.42.2 (Manual Tuneup)
Ultimate Windows Tweaker 2.0 (Customized)
SpeedGuide.net Vista TcpIp Patch 1.3
TCP-Z 2.5.1.50 (TCPZ Driver Installed)
Greatis Reanimator 6.1.6.13 (Disk Protection - Enabled)

dja2k

 

No offense guys, But don't you get sick of changing the setup's all the time? It's probably doing more harm then good.

 

This combination runs very light with very few pop-ups.

Online Armor++
DefenseWall 2.56


Recovery Solutions

FD-ISR
ShadowProtect

 

PC3 - playing PC
** can be different tomorrow **

Active (security with near zero CPU load during normal operation)
- Commodo Time Machine Beta (only changed disk sectors are logged, thats all)
- XP Pro SP3 - LUA with deny execute SRP (OS internal mechanism)
- Immunet free AV (only checks at program installs)
- ChromePlus (--safer-pugins + Plus privacy options, with internal Sandbox)

On demand
- Hitman Pro (On demand analysis, cloud blacklist check)
- A2 Free (right click enabled, A2CMD /Update through task manager)
- Autoruns (save plus compare output)

I am not much of a Frank Sinatra fan, but when having this ultra light setup, this one core +3700 Athlon felt like a modern multi core CPU, this song came into my head "Come fly with me"

- cold startup ChromePlus in less than 2 secs
- warm start of ChromePlus in just a blink (less than 1 sec)

Cheers

 

yay''' i got a free panda internet security free for 1 year

DeFenseWall Beta
MBAM Pro
Panda Internet Security

 

I've been looking for some replacement for the xp firewall and tried

1. outpost free
2. online armor free
3. comodo with d+

1. Felt a bit heavy, had too much restrictions and didn't like the fact that I had a question mark as a tray icon and couldn't keep that "policy" when running in background(hiding the tray icon). It automatically changes to block most and doesn't display any popups at all if I hide the tray icon.

2. Was ok untill yesterday when it popped up some advertisement about the paid version. I don't need popup advertisements even if the program is free. There is no option to refuse these ads.

3. Currently trying Comodo, feels pretty light and I configured the D+ to be less paranoid.

Dr.Web + Comodo it is for now.

 

Popups can be stopped by setting registry key “HKLM/Software/Tall Emu/Online Armor/NoNagScreen” to 1.

But read Mike Nash's reasons for the popup here - which might change your mind about disabling, doubtful lol. But it's nice to see an honest explanation about the reasons why!

 

New Setup: Removed Rollback Rx for now

Real-Time:
Avast v5 BETA
Malwarbytes AntiMalware
WinPatrol

On-Demand:
Hitman Pro
IObit Security 360
Sandboxie
Update Notifier

 

Using a simple setup here.

[Real time]
Avira antivir premium
Sandboxie

Maybe adding prevx soon.

 

added RTD Smart version 1.0

 

Please post some screenshots