What is your security setup these days?

Back to Kaspersky PURE again

 

Good decision Sjoeii. Nice to see you here.

 

Prevx was a little too rough on my system well over 60,000,000,000 I/O read bytes, constant CPU usage. Oh well, still have V4 to look forward to

 

Argh, I expected it to be Kaspersky again, but I see it is ESET

 

The disk IO tends to be higher due to it running scans in the background. I have not noticed high CPU. I actually think Prevx is the lightest, or one of the lightest AV programs out right now.

 

jmonge, how about the latest WinPatrol Plus does it still high consumes CPU and spikes CPU usage (eg when you surfing via IE browser)?

Thanks

 

Uninstalled Prevx for the time being since it was conflicting with IE8 smart screen filter and Opera again!!
On the other hand EAM and OA are running as smooth as silk!

 

Found OA++ pretty buggy and sluggish. Higher latency with it as well.

Back to Comodo 5 latest beta (firewall only) with PrevxSO.

No more changes

 

ah man, just go with Eset AV and PC Tools firewall.

 

I own a license of Avira but after ver 10 came out I gave up. How you liking their new version and any development of its proactive or behavior based detections?
kernel

 

well my Longhorn friend. Avira is very good. But Proactiv needs work, and will get it. Personally I dont like the idea of solid contenders like Avira and Avast going to BB and Sandboxs to fill a gap. I still am old fashion and think that emulators and heuristics still actually play an important role in fighting malware.

Not that BB blockers dont have there place, because Prevx rules in this area. But for a AV keep it simple and keep it good.

 

Hi,
I agree with you here my friend but dont you think traditional av's should have atleast some component to help prevent zero day threats and atleast give the user some more tools to block the crap ..just a thought

 

Added Norton DNS. I tried the actual software install. I then said "self why do I have to install another tray icon when I can just put in the DNS myself". So thats what I did. Works well. Haven't really tested it yet.

 

creer this version of winpatrol is way faster and better and now it has some registry protection

 

I totally agree and that is why there other vendors who make those products. When a vendor, say a AV vendor branches out into all those areas, the majority of the time, it pulls needed resources away from what got them there to begin with. Yes, folks like Norton and Kaspersky and a few others, have the resources to do this, but most of these smaller ones and dont. That is what Avira is struggling with. Has it hurt them?

Let others perfect those fields and let AV vendors make their products as strong as possible.

 

Thanks
have been here for a while

 

Windows 7 Ultimate x64:

Real-Time:

• Avast! Free 5.0.594 > File Guard + Behavior [Password Protect]

Windows:

• SRP (Software Restriction Policy)
• UAC (User Account Control) > Highest
• LUA (Limited User Account)
• DEP (Data Execution Prevention) > All Programs
• SEHOP (Structured Exception Handler Overwrite Protection)
• Windows Defender > Disabled

Network:

• Norton DNS
• Windows Firewall

On-Demand:

• Emsisoft Emergency Kit > Weekly Scans

Browser:

• SRWare Iron (Adblock + WOT + McAfee Site Advisor) > Daily Usage
• Internet Explorer 8 (Tweak ScanWithAV) > Online-Banking

Possible future changes:

Add:

• SpywareBlaster 4.3 > Immunization
• Malwarebytes Anti-Malware > Weekly Scans

Keep It Simple

 

Real Time:
Sophos Endpoint and Security 9.5
Firefox adblock-no script-WOT
Spyware blaster

On Demand:
MBAM
Super Anti Spyware free
Emisoft emergencykit

 

Changed my set up:
Installed CIS v5 BETA on my Win7 32Bit System

 

Just installed Immunet Protect (Free) to my setup. I'm also running Prevx SafeOnline (Facebook Edition), which I reinstalled. Will these two conflict? Is there a point in running both? Thanks in advance.

 

Removed Avast Pro 5....
Installed Bitdefender AV Pro 2011 !!
Using just 2% more ram of my system... and no problems with scanning and restoring files from quarantine.
still .. no crash of any service.

 

After seeing your setup dont think you need any of'em but hey it will not hurt if your system can handle it

 

@Win8Pr0user04
I would drop immunet and keep MSE, Prevx.

 

Loving MD!!

 

Been testing Norton Antivirus 2010 for some time now. This is one gem of an AV. Reasons I am liking it so much -
1. Absolutely no impact on system performance.
2. The best implementation of community based protection.
3. The best implementation of cloud based protection.
4. Updated constantly via the Pulse update mechanism.
5. Excellent reports.

Hands down, the best non-free AV I have ever used. And I have used a lot of them.
Its actually a feat in Software Engineering - how Norton managed to make so many diverse technologies work in tandem without affecting system performance.