What is your security setup these days?

As for me I disabled it and I haven't been updating at all since the August Update incident. Installing OS patches seems to be a dangerous thing to do recently. =V

 

Actually I've never had an issue with win upd. Moreover jic I have this:

 

I also didn't have problems, but it's not rare that the problem doesn't appear now but will start to annoy you a few months later. I will start checking for updates again perhaps on January. Currently seems to be a bad season for updating Windows lol.

 

...a few months later? Than how to know that it's the win upd is guilty?

 

Windows 10 preview 64 bit:

1. Surf behind standard account.
2. UAC on full
3. Firefox w/addons
4. Windows firewall
5. Macrium Reflect for clean images.
6. Behind router w/firewall
7. Windows Defender

8. Secure Boot enabled

** Need to find out when AppGuard will work with W10.

 

Still the same. Sandboxie and some other stuff. (as Page 42 would say)

 

My PC#2 security setup

Windows 7 32-bit Ultimate
SUA
UAC at max
Windows FW on
Windows updates automatic
windows restore off

Paragon, Macrium and Eaz-Fix images of sys partition with boot CDs

Eaz-Fix 9.1 (Rx clone with imaging) snapshotie time machine

Avast free

Emet 4.1 (just lazy to change for 5.0) covers all office and internet apps

This setup is light and doesn't require much user attention, is perfectly fit for non-techiees.

 

Windows 8.1 Pro x64 | HMP.Alert CTP4 + AppGuard

 

Uninstalled the latest installed updates fixed the problem. =)

 

thank you buddy

 

Emsisoft Internet Security
EMET 5.0

images, file backups, and syncs.

That's it.

 

I see, if the win upd are infrequent this will work.

 

Updated NOD32 from 7 to 8.

 

Good Afternoon ! Went back to Homeland Security Mk 20...the Lightest Most Responsive Apps For my setup. WSA Security Plus...Appguard...Voodoo Shield. Sincerely...Securon

 

@Kees (I mean Windows_Security )

since you're willing to go to the extent of surfing from within a vm, wouldn't you get better security running Chromium from a virtual Linux installation instead? The Linux sandbox of Chrome/Chromium is superior to that which Windows can provide, especially the woefully inadequate XP. Not to mention the extremely low attack surface and herd immunity Linux itself provides.

 

@wat0114

I once tried to move over to linux, but outlook 2007 gave me to much problems in Wine (also the word and powerpoint templates with vb-macro's of a customer crashed to often). I gave Virtual PC/XP-mode a try because it is so easy to install. I have to switch to Virtual Box when I want to run Linux (which is a threshold considering how fast XP-mode launches)

 

Ok I see. I was just going on the premise you would use the Linux VBox, or whatever vm, setup only for unsafe web browsing, but if you find it too slow to activate, the I guess that makes sense why you don't want to go that route.

Actually, however, if you did run the Linux vm, you could omit Sanboxie from your setup.

 

I will make the transition to linux once, because AppArmor offers so many containment features.

Sandboxie Free delays at each bootup (not consecutive program launches) when I hibernate the host it does not show the 5 sec delay after 30 days (XP-mode hybernates the guest automatically that is why it is so fast). With SBIE applying anonymous user sandbox on XP, it uses OS-based containment to protect Virtual PC, so that is a pretty strong double virtualization/OS-sandbox for the time being.

 

Precisely, my friend.
Still the same here, except the "other stuff" got changed slightly... activated my ESET NOD32 licenses after a 30 day trial.
Very likable AV. MBAM Premium running also.

 

Still using the same setup: Windows 8.1 x64, SRP, UAC, Win FW, ESET Nod32 8 BETA, Macrium Reflect, Chrome & uBlock.

 

Still thinking about what to pair with EMET. This is too monotone, mun.

 

Not much has changed since Shellshock:
- Dedicated firewall/gateway
- Standard iptables configs on all my machines
- Various web content blockers
- The all-important password vault

However, Shellshock basically shoved in my face that Linux system security right now is a joke, almost as bad as Windows. I hope someone can come up with a sane conceptual successor to UNIX, that makes it harder for users, sysadmins, and programmers to shoot themselves in the foot, but I don't think that will happen soon.

Meanwhile I figure I'm (still) best off limiting the opportunity for a compromise to occur, on the assumption that if one does happen, it will be fast and total. From where I stand this means things like blocking third-party web content, not installing stuff I don't trust, eschewing public wifi networks, stuff like that. Other than absolutely minimal stuff like that, it's basically out of my control.

 

Knock, knock who is there? Shellshock my favorite linux bash, celibrating 25 years of unsecurity

 

Yeah Bash is a super embarrassment, probably the worst exploit we've ever seen - and it's Unix/Linux/Apple.. Joy. Scrambling to deploy IPS/IDS signatures to nix it.

 

Same old security as in my siggy below on Windows 8.0 (No Upgrade to 8.1) Qihoo 360 IS has been a shocker to me that I've gone such a long time settling with only it since it's introduction. For my system perhaps the best set and forget AV I ever really stayed with and no regrets. But I am so bored anymore and sorely miss a classical HIPS interaction that I've never lost interest in, just have to do without one now.