What is your security setup these days?

I liked it enough that I grabbed a 2yr for the price of 1yr license back in early 2009. It sits there and quietly does its job without a whimper and does it extremely well. For me even the webguard is barely noticeable...

 

Installed SAS PRO, its so hard to believe its only using 512k of ram. How can they provide real time protection but only use that much ram

 

Test the real time protection of SAS Pro against some malware if you get a chance. I've not seen any test results showing the real time protection provides much security at all. It would be interesting to see if that's changed much.

 

Yeah I wondered the same thing but I am not really good at testing malware because I do not have the setup to. However I did notice on some youtube videos that it detected more on-demand then on-execution so I submitted a support ticket asking why and if they have improved the real time.

 

me 2 right now

 

It's been a day with this current set-up and no crashes. And in spite of the number of programs listed in my sig it is very speedy.

 

Windows XP SP3 32 bit:

added - to be removed soon - removed


Real time:

avast! Free
DefenseWall 3.07 Personal Firewall
SpyShelter 4.54 Personal Free
Windows XP Firewal
WinPatrol Free


On demand:

MBAM Free
Hitman Pro 3.5
Sandboxie 3.44 (paid)
Shadow Defender

 

Hitman pro is a keeper man

 

Windows XP SP3 32-bit


Realtime:

Avast Free
COMODO Firewall
Returnil Home Free
SpywareBlaster


On-demand:

MBAM
SAS Free Edition
HiJackThis
Paragon Drive Backup 10 Pro


Utilities:

CCleaner
Glary Utilities (paid)
UltraDefrag
Revo Uninstaller Pro


Firefox Security Add-ons:

WOT
Adblock Plus
TACO w/ Abine
BetterPrivacy

 

I am sorry I made you cry.

See here.

 

After reading a few recent comments on Wilders about Avira, I have to give it a try.

Removed ESET NOD32 and installed Avira. So far no conflicts or speed bumps.

 

This video is a few months old -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O5qrDybcJk

the tester, in regard to the SAS real time protection, states "it's remarkably not doing anything."

the SAS real time protection seems as "real" as their $9.99 one day only ad

 

Added back Windows Defender, since SAS is only using 512k it can't hurt.

 

Active
Defensewall 3.07
Prevx 3.0.5.199

Light Virtualization
ShadowDefender 1.1.0.325

On-Demand
Gmer ~ CureIt ~ MBAM ~ Hitman

OpenDNS
Opera 10.62

 

Windows 7 Ultimate x64:

Real-Time

• Norton Internet Security 2011
• PrevX SafeOnline 3.0.5.199
• Emsisoft Mamutu 3.0.0.12

On-Demand

• Emsisoft Emergency Kit 1.0.0.12
• Hitman Pro 3.5.6 Build 115

Windows Settings

• Admin Account with Safe-Admin Tweaks
• Access Control List: Downloads Directory
• User Account Control: Default Level
• Data Execution Prevention
• Structured Exception Handling Overwrite Protection
• Address Space Layout Randomization
• Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 2.0
• Drive-by Protection via 1806 Trick

Browser and Immunization

• Internet Explorer 8 (Adblock, Norton IPS, Tweaks)
• Mozilla Firefox (Adblock, Norton IPS, WOT, NoScript)
• Spyware Blaster 4.4 (With Customblocking.txt)
• CD/DVD/USB Autorun Desabilited
• Norton DNS (Blacklist)

* Using NIS with Heuristics/Sonar in aggressive mode, Mamutu on Paranoid mode, EMET configured for maximum security. Rock Solid.

 

Real-Time:
-Avast! Internet Security 5.0.677
(Disabled: Mail, Spam, P2P, and IM Shields)

On-Demand:
-MalwareBytes AntiMalware 1.46 Free
-SAS Portable

Browsers:
-Internet Explorer 9 Beta
-FireFox 3.6.10 (AdBlockPlus and WOT)
-Google Chrome 6.0.472.63 (AdBlockPlus and WOT)

*All browsers sandboxed by Avast! Internet Security 5.0.677

Removed Prevx SafeOnline 3.0 for the mean time. Might put it back on soon.

Any comments on my Security Setup fellow security experts? Thinking of enabling Windows Defender.

 

I must ask, why sandbox Google Chrome? It's sandboxed out of the box and sandboxing it with a 3rd party program might cause conflicts, meaning you won't have the same protection.

 

because chrome ISNT sandboxed... they call it a sandbox and u could say it is in a way, but its not a sandbox in the way avast's is, or sandboxie, its quite different.

 

That's an impressively light combination. Wish Defensewall could work on 64bit.

I wonder if Opera is as secure as Chrome or Iron or even IE8? And maybe it would be worth it to compare ClearCloudDNS to OpenDNS. I found a video test with 12 malware samples where ClearCloud did really well, but haven't seen a professional, published test.

 

Avira free + comodo firewall [ D+ disabled ] ( avira set on high heuristics )

mbam , hitmanpro , emsisoft , superantispyware free , sophos anti rootkit as on demand scanners

winpatrol and comodo time machine added too

 

Got myself new setup and I'm pretty happy with it :

Comodo Firewall Only (everything else disabled including Image Execution Control (which is enabled by default when Firewall Only is installed))
Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.0

Working great

btw EAM 5.0 is awesome product

 

Pc Tools Firewall Plus