What is your security setup these days?

Here is my new set up.

Windows Settings:
Admins account
UAC Off
Unnecessary services off
Windows Firewall inbound protection only

Security Programs
Comodo AV: stateful, scan memory on start up
Comodo D+: safemode, trusted vendor list removed
Comodo Sandbox: Chrome, IE, VLC
EMET 2.1: Chrome, IE, VLC
HitmanPro: start up scan

Chrome
All scripts enabled by default
Adblock plus
Ghostery
HTTPS everywhere

 

LOL- about to go beta in EAM in this snapshot, too - see my posts in Emsisoft Anti Malware 7.xx Thread > from #93 onwards.

I have been taking chances on this system since September 2007.

 

Underway...

 

Have fun with the update

 

Gonna take awhile!...

 

I'll let you take the chances and tests on my behalf then.

 

All over!

 

It didn't ask for a reboot, but I think I will... be back soon!

 

Yeah that's a good idea.

 

No hiccups...all is sweet.

 

How is it doing with WSA?

 

I only run EAM on demand, therefore it doesn't start at boot, unlike WSA, which does.

All I can say is give it a try.

P.S. I have yet to run a full scan in EAM. I think it would take hours for my configuation, i.e. multiple snapshots.

 

So why do you run turn off the file guard?

 

I just prefer to use for (on demand) scanning only, on anything I choose to download.



P.S. Vipre and WSA are running live.

 

private firewall 7
avira free
malwarebytes free
hitman pro free'
norton dns

 

Switched to EAM 7

 

Changes in Red.

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=2115425&postcount=26223

 

I'm planning on adopting a similar regimen with Avira. I'm going to enable only the scheduler service for updates and use the context menu/shell integration to right-click and scan new downloads before recovering them from the sandbox.

This will give me a 2'nd opinion along with MBAM, and I won't have a real-time AV chewing on my HD. I was discussing this with another member in the AV section.

Food for thought for other people...

 

Same here....like it!

 

avast pro here rock and solid protection

 

If I decide to run EAM or Avira as on-demand only are there still some services or processes started at each reboot or are they both truly on-demand only?

 

Well for Avira anyway you may want to allow the scheduler service to start automatically. This way you can get automatic updates. But none of the guards. This way you get the context menu (via right click), auto updates, but no real-time protection.

I'm going to have it update just once a day, overnight while I'm sleeping. I don't fish around on random sites much so zero days aren't much of a threat to me. Updates once a day is perfectly sufficient. And I know that using the scheduler to set up updates, you didn't get any ads, as opposed to turning auto updating on in the configuration. Not sure if that's changed though. Haven't used Avira in almost 2 years now. Then again there's a very easy way to thwart those adds with a HIPS and outbound FW anyway, or via SRP, so it never was a problem for me regardless.

 

Thanks for info luciddream! I will check if EAM is on demand only.

Since I scan my computer once a week, I don't need services running in background.

 

RIS removed
PFW removed
Winpatrol Plus removed
MBAM pro now on demand only

Trying KIS2013 since my 2012 lic will expire on july2013