What is your security setup these days?

Securon

 

Yes, harder but proven before that they can do it. But that's true of any browser where you're hitting any site under Google's control. I'm just a little concerned that they may have underlying technology that they're not up front about that "helps" with tracking.

 

Yeah, I hear ya... I don't have much of anything of real personal value online either and I think for me its more the idea of them doing it that bothers me more so than what they can glean from it.

 

No doubt and I agree for the most part. I just really dislike their model of how they now try to make money I suppose. Don't worry, I feel the same way about Facebook.

 

Good going.

 

I'm using FortiCleint now, and was finding it to be extremely light until I opened my downloads folder which contains about 380 exe, zip and rar files (due to my constant downloading and trialing of software) in Explorer.

Then it was using up to 50% CPU until I closed the folder. Consequently I am about to uninstall it and look for something else.

However, until I opened my downloads folder, it was extremely light and Sleipnir was running really smoothly with 50+ tabs open.

 

Back to WSA and MBAM-Pro.

 

soon I will be running webroot and malwarebytes pro and for sure mbampro will stay cause I have lifetime licence and the clean up capability and detention is super good

 

Good Morning! Using WSA Security Plus...and AppGuard...Rock Em...Sock Em! Lol! and HMP...On-Demand Only! Sincerely...Securon

 

Back to my 2 old "girlfriends" Panda Cloud and Comodo FW 5.12.And of course,Sandboxie
(still have a snapshot with AVG pro and Privatefirewall,just in case...because i really like this combo)

 

Only One realtime Policy HIPS and smart HIPS/AV/FW, where are the others ?

 

I have used this combo 7 months now:
avast! Free Antivirus
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware PRO

and two days ago i added Webroot SecureAnywhere AntiVirus.
no problems so far. but not sure if my combo needs a third wheel

 

@Rompin Raider
Good going.

 

JoeBlack40

How do you like that early version Comodo FW? Do you find Computer Security Policy settings in it very beneficial where a user can fine customize their own selective rulesets to add even more protection against potential entry points.

Curious because despite Comodo's latest new upgrade in 6.3, i find v. 5.12 very configurable in many more ways than other newer versions.

 

No harm in adding extra protection. WSA will sit back, let avast! look out and catch first then it will catch the rest.

 

To be honest,version 6 gave me too much problems and it never stayed more than 30 minutes on my system.But in terms of stability,trouble-free,settings and customizing,5 version is a winner.

 

Good Afternoon! The final layer to Homeland Security's...Duncan Hines...All-American Security Cake...Voodoo Shield...WSA Security Plus...and AppGuard...Lol! Sincerely...Securon

 

that will lockdown your pcs

 

Since it has to be installed to use anyway, I've turned on MBAM's full-time protection to run with WSA and AppGuard, and turned off HMP's scheduled scans and uninstalled it, and will use it like EEK for portable scans.

 

XP Pro SP3 32-bit
SonicWALL TZ 205 Router (wired)

User friendly default deny SRP
Safe/secondary Admin account
Many Local/Group Policy tweaks
Folder permissions for hardened LUA, used for sensitive means
Windows FW (locked via GP)
10 Services, 13 Processes running in idle
Hardware DEP & Virtualization (VT-x & VT-d)

VirtualBox
Comodo FW/D+ 5.10 - Custom Policy, Stealth all ports, All Advanced checked, Paranoid D+, Untrusted
Sandboxie Lifetime - Removable drives/USB ports sandboxed, dedicated "Downloads" partition sandboxed, Internet facing apps
TrueCrypt - System partition encrypted w/32 digit ASCII key, sensitive material in container
VT Hash Check - Scan new downloads before recovering from sandbox
OpenVPN - PRQ (direct), Mullvad
Ixquick Proxy used in addition to VPN's, or alone when no forms to fill or scripts used
Macrium Reflect Free 4.2
Comodo Secure DNS, Mullvad or PRQ's servers, Swiss Privacy Foundation servers

Hitman Pro - Portable only, full scans
MalwareBytes Free - Shell scans, full scans
TDSS Killer
GMER

Firefox 25/Ixquick: NoScript, Adblock Edge, RequestPolicy, Private Tab, CS Lite Mod, Calomel SSL Validation, HTTPS-Everywhere, WOT, VTzilla

All plugins disabled, No Flash - HTML5
Many about:config tweaks, TLS Max=3, TLS Min=2, SSL3=Disabled, FIPS 140-2 + PFS forced, Google "Safebrowsing" (spying) disabled

Logon:

BIOS PW
TrueCrypt key
SysKey - floppy disk required
Ctrl+Alt+Del
Logon PW

 

That SonicWALL looks awesome.
Lots of configuring necessary?

 

I've always liked running MBAM's filesystem protection.

I make sure that I have unchecked 'Automatically quarantine filesystem threats detected by the protection module'. Back on 4/15/13, as you may recall, things went a little sideways for MBAM's protection module and it began quarantining system files like crazy, labeling everything as Trojan.Downloader.ED. I avoided any major issues with that one, but a great many users were not so lucky.

Do you also enable the malicious website blocking?

 

woooooo cant believe what i am doing
i am trying SysWatch Personal 3.8 Beta=very dangerous program

 

How is it doing?

 

MBAM is running as installed. Didn't know about the 4/15 incident, doesn't sound good, I'm turning off auto quarantine. With what I'm running I probably could disable malicious website blocking also.

edit: Never mind. After reading your post I started looking at settings and thinking about what MBAM is doing along with my other security programs and it seemed like a little too much so set MBAM back to on-demand.