What is your security setup these days?

The hardening tools do often disable redirects, which sounds like what this could be.

 

As always, thanks Notok.

Question for all... I notice a lot of people leaning towards dumping their current AV and FW for KIS. With that in mind, who here is going in the same route?

dja2k

 

Hi dja2k, I'm using KIS 2006 on one of my VmWare Consoles solely without any Hips installed (like AD,RD,PG,SU or FDISR ...)
On another console I have Nod32 installed and all the separte programs (like AD/RD/FDISR/Ewido/Boc/ .. )
.. I guess I'll go with the two after all ... cause KIS2006 is just all I expect from a suite (and I don't like them suites in general !!!) and the rest I cannot say goodbye too

But if the suite has been built good .. with no critical bugs in any of the components I would say it's ok to use it. I see it like a hifi system ... when the cd player isn't working anymore, chances are the other components won't work anymore too...
But hifi isn't therefore bad but still it's something I would always keep in mind ..

 

I will probably use KIS on one of my secondary machines, but I'll be keeping NOD32 on my main machine

 

Okay lets play with a new question. If you had only three security programs, what would they be? Individually like AV, AT, HIPS, FW? Now no cheating and getting an all in one suite, that would count as all three. Let the postings begin...

dja2k

 

LnS/NOD/PG

 

May be a new thread is better ?

My answer : Jetico, NOD32 and Online Armor

 

Appdefend, NOD, CHX-I

Alphalutra1

 

My three would be:

1. ViruScape
2. Jetico Personal Firewall
3. Online Armor

 

L"n"S
KAV 6.0 (beta right now)
Online Armour

 

NOD32
ewido (if NAT/router is included) or looknstop (if NAT/router is not included)
regrun plat 4.6 beta

 

DefenseWall HIPS
NOD32
Safe'n'Sec


Peace & Love,

CogitoErgoSum

 

My best 3 would be:

ShadowUser
NOD32
OutPost FW (or LnS)

 

Real time:
-KAV 6.0 (beta)
-Outpost Firewall
-Process Guard

Scanners:
-Ad-aware
-SpyBot
-a-squared
-Ewido
-BitDefender

 

Nice Responses...Mine would be these.

(low resource usage alternative)
Kaspersky Internet Security 2006 (all active installed including the proactive one) - once it goes final

or

(resource usage not an object)
Kaspserksy AV 2006 (no proactive)
Look'n'Stop
Online Armor

dja2k

 

By the way, I would think that Appdefend at this point would be considered two cause it has Regdefend installed as defualt. In theory I count KIS as three, maybe could be considered more, but it has the AV, FW, and the PROACTIVE (HIPS) parts to it. So with that, KAV 2006 with the proactive would be in theory again be two products in one; a dedicated AV plus Proactive (HIPS). I am trying to see your setups in what products you can substitute by using others and\or a suite.

dja2k

 

ZA_Pro
NOD32 AV
Peerguardian
AdAware
SpyBot S&D
Ewido

 

In reguards to my regular security setup, I have downgraded to the following active programs...

Kav 2006 Beta (no proactive)
Look'n'Stop 2.05p3 Beta
GSS Appdefend\Regdefend Beta
Online Armor 1.1.0.692 Beta
Ewido 3.5

Removed
RegRun Gold 4.5
Spyware Doctor 3.5

dja2k

*Trying to free up resources. Still thinking about removing
Ewido from the active list since KAV is somewhat good in
detecting and removing trojans and those other nasty
stuff with its extended database.

 

dja2k,
I am doing a test since two weeks now. I removed all my programs, LNS, OA, RegDefend and Ewido.
I have my Netgear Router WGR614 and KIS6.0 (latest beta) with all active installed, including ProActive. My system has never been running so smooth and fast since a long time.

Some people report they have problems with KIS6.0 beta, but on my system it's perfect. I am very pleased so far.I will wait another two weeks, until the final version of KIS is released to make my final decision.

 

Cool Antarctica, nice to hear someone else is using KIS beta and trying it out.

dja2k

 

UPDATED

Online Armor AV+ Beta Built 738
Look'n'Stop 2.05p3 Beta
GSS Appdefend\Regdefend Beta 1.110

REMOVED

Online Armor Standard Beta Built 694
KAV Beta 6.0.0.299

dja2k

 

Updated List:

ViruScape 2006
SUPERAntiSpyware
Online Armor Standard Beta build. 694
BOClean
ProcessGuard
*thinking about a2 guard*

 

CHX-I
NOD32
D-Link 614+
Opera 9
Proxomitron

(Just reformatted computer, so I'm going for bare minimum...)

 

Just currious, but is anyone trying out the OA AV+ beta ? What do you think of it so far and I know its not completed yet though?

dja2k

 

update:

added
removed

Resident:

nod32
looknstop
regrun gold
proxomitron
SnoopFree Privacy Shield
HostsMan (with MVPS Hosts, Mike's Hosts, and Block Adverts)

On-Demand:

ewido anti-malware
ad-aware SE
superantispyware

Other Security / System Hardening:

nLite'd Windows XP (with service tweaking based on TweakHound's guide)
RyanVM's Windows XP Post-SP2 Update Pack
BugOff
Harden-it
Samurai HIPS
SafeXP
Windows Worms Doors Cleaner
process explorer
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