What is your security setup these days?

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Real Time

Avast 5 (5.0.366)
Prevx Paid (3.0.5.50)
Comodo Firewall (3.13.126709.58 1) (Firewall Only)

On Demand

Malwarebytes

 

i changed my mind i will defenetly will keep and use prevx and A-square these 2 are top notch antimalware programs,i also want to mention i will always run defensewall in wife's and kid's pcs all the time
so for 2010 i will defenatly i will continue to use them to protect our system

 

Any modifications since two months :



Family’s laptop (old xp sp3 - Wi-Fi) :

Avira premium
Online Armor premium
Win Patrol plus
PrevX Safe Online


daughter 1 (old desktop xp sp3 - Wi-Fi) :

Avira premium
Online Armor premium
Win Patrol plus
PrevX Safe Online


family's old desktop (xp sp3 - Wi-Fi) (on reserve if necessary)

PrevX 3 Safe online
Online Armor free
Win Patrol plus


daughter 2 recent laptop (vista sp2 - Wi-Fi) :

KIS 2010
Win Patrol plus
PrevX Safe Online


Main family recent desktop - powerful (core quad ... vista sp2 - internet cable 30 mb/sec)

KIS 2010
Win Patrol plus
PrevX Safe online


daughter's 3 very old laptop (xp sp3 - wi-fi) : on abandonment now

AVG anti virus, after license expiration : perhaps … Avira free
Ghostwall
Win Patrol plus
Spyware stopper


daughter 3 recent laptop (vista sp2 - wi-fi) :

KIS 2010
Win Patrol plus



All fully patched + spywareblaster enable and malwarebyte's on demand.
All together on home network.

Why Avira ? : light, reactive and cheap.
Why Online Armor ? : light without HIPS, acceptable with, and powerful.
Why KIS ? : heavy on old computers but very powerful with recent ones … the best !!!
Why WinPatrol plus ? : Incredibly light and very easy to use.
Why Prevx 3 Safe Online ? : Incredibly light and reactive … but … in the clouds, it could be a problem with laptop off line and USB flash drive.

Every month "Acronis true image" full backup on each computer - all the hard disks are build with two partitions and the desktops have got two hard disks for redundant backups.

I hope the daughter's use of internet isn’t too dangerous, but I think the family's computers are well protected.

Hardware router Linksys with firewall on.
Browser = firefox - email filtering : poptray with lot of rules.


That's all.

Best regards from France, Vonvon

 

trying something from the past that is doing very well.

 

Main machine Win7 : Out of all the setups I have had I think this one will not change, definitely my favorite

Avast 5 Free AV
Defensewall 3 Personal Firewall
WinPatrol

Win XP:

Comodo Time Machine
CIS v4 beta

 

Ditched Comodo IS
Back to Online armor and Avira premium.

 

does anybody knows if Rootkit Scanner in Online Armor is from online armor or a-square?thanks

 

Online armor uses the A Squared/Ikarus engine.

 

thanks

 

anyone tried privatefirewall? I was wondering how it compares with comodo and OA.

 

its a great firewall and their is a thread about it in the firewall thread.

 

Thanks for the input dude.

 

private firewall has a unique feature and it is that when running a file it will give you an alert and with a 10 seconds countdown for you to decide to allow ro denny if you dont answer the alert the file will be block

 

Yikes! I don't know if I like that one. If i'm lovin' my coffee and miss that box, I'm screwed.

 

ofcourse i will prefer to use TallEmu's Software

 

Ditched Comodo Firewall and have since installed PC Tools Firewall Plus. Seems to be running very well.

This is after installing the OS again. Seems it was either Comodo or Kaspersky IS which I tried that caused some serious connection issues with my Internet. Pretty sure it was KIS. I was doing a full scan after installing it (and after uninstalling Comodo) and it stalled at 13%. I had to restart the system and couldn't get my Internet connection back.

 

NAV
WinPatrol
Opera
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An enjoyable experience I must say.

 

Random testing CIS V4 in the VM

 

Testing Comodo Time Machine in my VM.

So far the easiest image rollback software I have used to date. Easier than EAX-Fix.

 

I've been pretty well sticking with Prevx 3 / Defensewall 3 lately.

 

Eset NOD32
Mischel TrojanHunter
Sunbelt Counterspy

 

Stopped using Comodo Time Machine. Not a specific reason, but some issues with my pc, so I went back in time (image) and want to leave CTM out to see how that goes. Will investigate further, but to what extend I don't know yet (busy, busy, busy).

 

Westell Router
Windows Firewall
LUA
Avast 5 Free Antivirus

 

Testing my newest security setup on my VM...


Returnil only (AV enabled, "Trust programs from real disk only" ticked to block keyloggers)

From what I see, I may just ditch ALL of my security software for this.

 

Active / DefenseWall 3.00 ~ Shadowdefender 1.1.0.320
On-Demand / KeyScrambler 2.6.0.2
Scanners / A-squared 4.5 ~ MBAM 1.44
Imaging / Macrium Reflect
Hardening / SeconfigXp

OpenDNS ~ Opera 10.10