What is your security setup these days?

Agree with you all the way! All my browsers are Mozilla based and have Adblock Plus and Noscript - I have 3 external drives for imaging - (and use 3 different imaging programs) eg, > disconnect internet > connect ext hard drive > run image > disconnect ext drive. Easy to nuke system if infected by hard to get rid of things!

 

Well good for you: (a past error from 2009: Noscript whitelisting quietely)
http://www.neowin.net/news/war-between-adblock-plus-and-noscript-money-on-the-table

Noscript used -install-global-extentions command or used the raw component XPI drop which in itself is a security risk
http://blog.mozilla.org/security/2009/11/16/component-directory-lockdown-new-in-firefox-3-6/

Still no sandboxing in FF while it was planned in 3.6, postponed to 4 and put on hold completeley http://www.2ality.com/2011/12/firefox-electrolysis-on-hold.html

FF used to be the better browser, the world has changed since 2009, really

 

backup, imaging & disk mgmt

 

There is no software on the planet that is bug free and remains so at all times.

If you're referring to using Chrome - you can keep it and all it's bugs too. I'll stick with the FF and NS bugs at least for now.
As for their games or advertising I'm not bothered by either plugin and they can duke it out all they want.

 

Gdata has behavior blocker. You really don't need the HIPS in privatefirewall. Not only that but it's adding another process or two tying up memory. You should be sandboxing thunderbird too. You can configure it to allow booksmarks or whatever else needs to run.

 

Interesting comment from someone working for an antimalware application company.

So, I suppose you folks are extremely lucky that many people use more than just the web browser, such as e-mails clients, otherwise, judging by what you say (which I do not disagree), then MBAM would be pretty much useless.

 

Palemoon 64bit browser with NoScript and Adblock plus in Sandboxie. Added EMET and UAC set to high....MBAM pro also. Backup to partition and USB disk with Reflect. Forgot to add....using windows firewall as well.

 

Kees, old Firefox stuff from 2009 don't bother me at all. All I care about is that my browser keeps working well, something that Firefox does. I have never had a Firefox crash and I mean never. That means something to me. Despite myself not being an expert like you or using 29 security applications and/or tweaks or using Chrome with its sandbox, I don't get infected anymore.

I credit that to using Firefox with NoScript and Sandboxie to sandbox my browsers and most programs that I use. I know you like Chrome which is just fine but in my opinion, you dont give Firefox the credit that it deserves.

Anyway, this is my setup for the past two years:

Sandboxie
Firefox with NoScript
Windows firewall

No on demand or real time antiviruses.

Bo

 

Added Avast Free to my present setup,
so currently i have a total of 4 Antivirus Engines at my Disposal (not counting MalwareBytes)
But still the RAM and CPU usage is really really low.
Of my 4GB available Physical Memory, only about 1.1GB is used at Idle on average.

 

Tell me you don't use all of them in real-time....

 

Updated my set up again:

AV
Bitdefender Antivirus Free edition
AM
MBAM Pro
FW
Outpost FW Pro
Browser protection
Web Control (Outpost)
ABP
NS

 

On the contrary - I think it's quite useful as it's there to backup and hopefully catch and stop what other tools or processes may not have stopped.

There are so many ways to infect a computer. But experience certainly does help in preventing infections.

I don't know how many people use NoScript or similar tools but when you consider that there are over a billion computers connected to the Internet I seriously doubt even 1% of those computers are running any type of tool like NoScript and Adblock Plus. There is also RequestPolicy which for some can be an eye opener of what is going on underneath when connecting with sites.

I think our products do quite well for the average customer. It improves upon the users current antivirus and helps to automate protection.

As another example. Wilders Security Forums is one of the larger public forums where hopefully many users learn ways of protecting their computers and data, however their numbers pale to the amount of users on the Internet that many really only know very basic commands and some can't do much more than turn it on and surf the web.

At the bottom of the forum it shows these numbers for members.
Members: 125,551 Active Members: 8,437

So even if every single member of the forum here used NoScript, AdBlock Plus, and RequestPolicy (and knew how to use it, I see users get infected because they've trusted an entire site that had bad content on it) it would still not affect the amount of people that get infected daily.

 

installed Mamutu Version 3.0.0.21

 

my system has alot of memory 16G worth. So theoretically won't hinder the system. correct me if I'm wrong

In thunderbird, I found it difficult to communicate with outside apps. I remember I wasn't able to drag and drop attachments.


Is Gdata firewall the one that possesses the behaviour blockers?

 

For Thunderbird to work properly, you need to allow Direct access to certain files in the mailbox outside the sandbox. Sandboxie can do that for you. Navigate to Sandbox settings>Applications>E Mail reader>Thunderbird. Double click on Thunderbird and click apply.

Bo

 

In Shadow Defender mode only Avira provides Real-Time

in Normal mode Avira + Emsisoft AntiMalware provides Real Time protection,
Avast and MBAM provide me with on-demand scanners

and i rarely get out of the "Shadow Mode", except to install new product updates or a new Game.
I also maintain a baseline Pristine and clean image of my system drive which i revert back to in case i suspect anything to be amiss.

 

Quite nice. No performance drop?

 

No Performance drop in anyway
as only Avira and Comodo Firewall is active real-Time
rest are started on-demand

Before installing Avast(compatibility Mode)
my RAM usage on idle would be 1.05 GB on average
now after installing Avast it is 1.1GB on idle on average

i focused on Raw detection Capabilities as no Antivirus can remove a malware completely and the fact that i am protected by Shadow Defender.

 

Same here.

 

I understand where you're coming from. But, my comment was more in the line of if everyone used NoScript/RequestPolicy + ABP/other, and if only used the web browser and nothing else, then, and I just went along with what you mentioned, antimalware tools would become futile for the home users. You did say that infecting test systems running only ABP + NoScript is quite difficult.

Reality is most users don't just use a web browser, but use e-mail clients, PDF readers, media players, etc... so, for most of them antimalware applications are useful.



-edit-

That is also one of the issues with tools such as NoScript/RequestPolicy - to know which domain name to whitelist. Most of the times it's about trial and error, and during this period the user may be get screwed. Which I believe user Kees1958 does have a point about Google Chrome, as it would be harder to exploit this web browser, even with all scripts allowed, than it would be with Firefox + NoScript/RequestPolicy, which would require the user to know which scripts to allow/not allow.

 

Windows 8 Pro x64
Appguard
Shadow Defender
EMET 3.0 (pdf, wmplayer, IE10, Windows mail enforced..)
Windows Defender (might just turn that off...)
IE 10 with smartscreen, trackinglists and all that stuff
Macrium Reflect backup somewhere...
Norton DNS ofc

 

yes but you cannot drag and drop attachments still, try it!

 

Sorry, I cant try it, I don't use TB.

Bo

 

Don't quite understand why people install as many softwares on their systems ...

 

You probably understand. It sounds like you just don't agree.