What is your security setup these days?

Just changed from Windows Defender and Windows Firewall to Norton Security, works great so far. Very light on my System.

 

New setup for new year:

Windows 7 x64 with Standard User Account, Software Restriction Policies and Windows Firewall (inbound only)
Sandboxie
Freedome VPN
uBlock Origin
Macrium Reflect

 

Emsisoft Anti-Malware

 

ZoneAlarm free ZAM Pro
windows 7 64bit

 

Not quite...

FYI, extensions like Canvas Defender that modify <canvas> show up here under "HTML5 Canvas Protection":
https://browserleaks.com/proxy

So spoofing puts you in a much smaller detectable group than "blocking" or rather "read failure" which can occur for several common reasons that are much more likely encountered versus a rare user who actively spoofs data.

Then the fact that Chrome doesn't even require a third-party extension makes using the flag switch a no-brainer.

 

Should have added my dumb phone to my list. I never do banking online.

 

Well, that is a good point I have to concede ... until I reach up and hit the red button on the toolbar. Bang! New identity (canvas noise hash)

Well, if you wish to play "my browser is better than yours", then by all means do so. But if you use Chrome, you are already owned by Google

Firefox is still a free and open source browser developed by the Mozilla foundation. Judging by the percentage of users, Chrome overtook Firefox about 5 years ago. Google is winning. I believe it's because of the rise of the smartphone and dumb users who either don't understand privacy, or are too complacent to care about it.

If you don't like Firefox, at least use Chromium. It is the the open-source web browser project from which Google Chrome draws its source code.

 

Can you explain this, please? I use Chrome and switched after having used Firefox for many years.

 

Well you could start with this ... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/google-privacy/

Or this ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_concerns_regarding_Google

... http://www.computerworld.com/articl...ftc-over-googles-deceptive-policy-change.html

... http://www.computerworld.com/articl...ogle-homes-always-on-will-affect-privacy.html

... https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/21/googles-redefined-privacy-policy-lets-ads-follow-you-everywhere/

... http://fortune.com/2016/05/19/google-france-appeal/

... http://www.salon.com/2014/02/05/4_w...ing_privacy_and_collecting_your_data_partner/

... http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/...7/google-maps-duckduckgo-web-history/2155759/

Or maybe just Google it

 

Most of those links are about Google's privacy concerns and not Chrome's. If you switch to Firefox they don't magically go away.

You can disable privacy invading options in Chrome's advanced settings or switch to Chromium if you don't trust it.
I doubt that Google backdoored their browser to get some more user data. They get plenty of it from internet itself - from users using all kind of browsers.

 

This is what I was hoping - Chrome isn't an open-door to my privacy, not that my life is exciting enough to interest anybody. I use Ublock and Trocker so should be safe.

 

Your concession changes everything because your usage of CanvasD was based on something critical that turned out to be false: you CAN detect Canvas Defender. So your entire underlying point about blockers becoming part of a smaller traceable group applies more to you and regardless of you hitting a button. Furthermore, you temporarily leak unique traceable cross-data directly until you do manually re-spoof.

Firefox? You'll need extensions and hence I did not suggest extensionless flags for Firefox that don't exist. Go figure. Meanwhile, there's CanvasBlocker; lots like RAS. Undetectable. Automatic. & No browser wars unless I bite.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/canvasblocker/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/random-agent-spoofer/

Chromium? The anti-canvas flag works on both Chrome and Chromium/ports; your point is not relevant to my advice and where I prefer NOT to play "my browser is better than yours". And FWIW, I used Chromium Stable to test Canvas Defender versus <disable-reading-from-canvas> with the latter being what I suggest for your setup if you use Chrome etc., but feel free to try those flags on Firefox in an attempt to be truly browser agnostic and illogical.

 

There's a thread here if anyone wants to discuss privacy concerns.

What is your Privacy Setup

... Just sayin'.

 

In the right hands, I believe Chrome or Firefox can be equally as secure (or private) as one wishes. It's not the tool, it's how you use it

 

• KIS 2017 (maximum settings),
  NOT supplemented by any other real-time stuff, such as HMP.A or MBAM
  
  
• on demand scanner: EEK, ADWCleaner
  
  
• O&O Shutup 10 (mainly privacy settings that don't render your computer unusable)

• FF plug-ins: uBlock Origin, Quick Java, KIS plug-in

• UAC highest settings

• backup, backup, backup

That's all, I think. Good enough for me.

 

Good tip!!!

 

Win-10

- Avira Free
- MBAE

works fine

 

On Christmas eve (I celebrated Sinter Klaas in stead of Santa Claus) I re-installed an old laptop (for some older relatives) with Vista and downloaded Firefox and noticed it has LOW-IL enabled by default. It is a great browser to run depreciated plug-ins like Flash and Silverlight (needed to watch TV on PC)

I managed to get GeSWall working with UAC enabled (using the geswall console in stead of the GUI program). Added Avast in Hardened Aggresive mode (they are always connected to internet) and blocked executions from removable drives through registry hack.

Congratulations with LOW-IL to firefox users: I will stop making fool of Firefox on this security forum (well okay last one FF now has the same level of security as IE had in 2009)

 

Any issues with EAM? Noticed you removed it.

 

Yes I've had minor incident, but don't know if it's caused by EAM. Admin account got corrupted and was replaced by temporary profile. I don't know if EAM was involved, but it happened few days after installation and never happened to me before. I decided to restore Macrium image that was one week old (before I installed EAM). Although I bought a licence I will use only EEK for the time being.

 

I've had to uninstall EAM and reinstall KIS because of this issue. I've raised the problem in EAM's forum and direct with EmsiSoft support but no resolution. I know that stapp has had a similar issue and his solution is to log out of your profile and log back in. That works but it can be a PITA because sometimes it needs to be done 2 or 3 times.

 

Thank you for info. I didn't check their forum so was not aware of this issue. Great to hear that it got sorted out in latest beta.

 

Many thanks, Stapp. Sorry about your gender switch but my user name causes people to assume I'm female. My wife will attest that I've never been confused though.

 

Just installed 12.2.0.7060 and, indeed, the profile issue seems to have been sorted.