What is your security setup these days?

Haven't had any success finding a way to have downloads trigger an on-demand scan, so I set up Avira and a download partition the way you suggested Cyrano2. Works well so far, very light with the added benefit of having Avira handy for an on-demand scan. After Kees listed BitDefender Quickscan as one of his programs, I wrote them to ask if they had any on-demand product that would scan a download automatically, and they wrote back that it is doable and they have been looking into creating such a product.

IE9 started giving me a few small, unrelated problems mainly with the interface, so I've switched to Chrome again.

 

Used to think like this, if it's priced right in my opinion, i like to support them
And also never forget Customer Support

 

avast free
comodo firewall only

still looking for a good anti spyware for free

had malware bytes never found anything same with sas free ?

 

Perhaps if I really felt threatened and there was some perfect program out there I would. But I believe that all security should be built into the OS kernel by default.

 

Turned off auto-sandboxing. I can still right click and select to sandbox (in which case it will be limited) and my other programs are still sandboxed.

 

If you are not infected what you want the scanners to report?

 

delicious crispy cookies?!

 

Urgh, I really feel like Sandboxie would make this setup perfect.

 

Yes it would. It also works nicely together.

 

grr if only

 

Still only Sandboxie with Macrium fallback...

philby

 

Decided to run MSE again after using avast! for a few months. Running nicely so far alongside MBAM PRO.

 

mbam and ESET Smart Security 4.2.71.2 so far. Need to be careful though with the newest build of ESET if you have a 5 year old router. I had to change my prefered DNS to a public 4.2.2.2 so that I could get on the internet.

 

DefenseWall for life!

 

DW

 

oh how I envy people with paid Sandboxie

 

Well that lasted all of two hours; MSE is just still too resource intensive. I like to give it a try whenever a new version engine is released. Maybe one day...

To be honest, I'm considering going AV free. AppLocker properly configured, coupled with my current setup, should be enough protection, surely? It's just so ingrained to run an AV that I struggle with this idea.

 

Lowered MBAM from real-time to demand only.
It was running around 42K idle and 100k+ while running firefox. Thats without the IP blocker too. I do love MBAM and all but thats a little too high for my taste.

 

I did that some time ago, never regretted doing so.

 

Do you run scans often? If so, with what?

 

No, not often, no need.
Mainly just for new downloads.
MBAM + HMP
+ A few rootkit scanners (when I get bored)

 

Hmmm, intriguing. I use MBAM PRO which is fantastic and run anything suspicious in Sandboxie. I think with AppLocker running I'll be set.

 

Same here...

It's the only way to go if you care about resources.

 

AppLocker up and running. Feeling lean and mean

 

Looks strong. I'd remove MBAM and throw on DefenseWall if you're willing to pay. That's a damn powerful program.