What is your security setup these days?

Yeah sorry if my post is outdated, I guess the Vista part went in one ear and out the other. Believe it or not I have had Windows Defender find something that KAV didn't, so it's not COMPLETELY useless. I have it on demand, it's not sucking up any of my precious resources. I have SAS as well.

While I'm at it, might as well just actually respond to the origional post...

XP Home SP2
Alpha Shield Home H/W Firewall
Router (wired) w/ NAT & SPI
KAV 6

And many misc. anti-spy programs i.e. Ad-Aware Personal, Spybot S&D, SAS, and many, many more (too many to list). Only once in a blue moon do any of them actually find anything though because the KAV pretty much wipes everything out.

 

Real time-KAV,a2,SSM,NAT firewall,Kerio Personal firewall(for Outbound).
On Demand-AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5 Pro(Paid Version), SUPERantispyware.

 

Hello there.

By doing this you only disable realtime protection, and not Defender itself

Windows Defender runs as a service, so if you didn't disable its service it sucks up resources through svchost.exe.

Cheers.

 

Thought I go back to my regular list posting which has set standards here that some still follow.

I am known for my long list posting and this one is no exception, but updates to this post will not include a full list but rather just updates, changes, or removals to Active security. The updated post will exclude Hardening, Browsers, and On Demand, for those references, I will make a link to this post.

Switching between XP and Vista is done with FirstDefense-ISR

WINDOWS XP FULL SETUP

ACTIVE
Online Armor AV+ (Beta 165)
- Standard Mode
- All Shields Enabled
Nod32 (2.70.32)
- Blackspear's Recommended Settings
SUPERAntiSpyware (3.6.1000)
- Default Settings
BOClean (4.22.002)
Geswall (2.6 Beta2)
- Isolate Know Applications
Hostsman
- Auto Update
- HTTP Server Enabled

HARDEING
Harden-It 1.2 (Defualt Settings)
SocketLock (Enabled)
Bugoff 1.10 (All Enabled \ Patched)
Windows Worm Door Cleaner (All Enabled \ Closed)
XP-Antisy v3.96-6 (Customized)
Spyware Blaster 1.5.1 (Immunized + Custom Blocklist)
Spybot 1.4 (Immunized)
IE-Spyads (Customized IE 7 Installation)
AutoPatcher XP 2007 (February Updated \ Customized)
XP Services Enabled\Disabled based on BlackViper.com

BROWSERS
OpenDNS
- Enabled
Firefox 2.0.3
- Adblocking (Adblock & Adblock Filterset.G Updater)
- Tracking (TrackMeNot, CookieSafe, Adaptive Referrer Removal, and ShowIP)
- Other (SiteAdvisor)
IE 7 (7.0.5730.11)
- IE 7 Anti-Phishing Feature (Disabled)
Opera 9.20 (8762)

ON DEMAND
Acronis True Image Home 10
- Daily Images (Newer Replace Older - 3 Max)
Leapfrog FirstDefense-ISR 1.2 Beta (Built 201)
Raxco PerfectDisk 8.0 (Built 58 )
Spybot Search & Destroy (1.4)
A-Swuared Antimalware (2.1)
Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition (1.06)
CCleaner (1.37.456)
Process Explorer (10.21)
TuneUp Utilities 2007
Ewido Micro Scanner

WINDOWS VISTA FULL SETUP

ACTIVE
Nod32 (2.70.32)
- Blackspear's Recommended Settings
SUPERAntiSpyware (3.6.1000)
- Default Settings
Geswall (2.6 Beta2)
- Isolate Know Applications
Windows Vista Firewall
- Enabled

BROWSERS
OpenDNS
- Enabled
Firefox 2.0.3
- Adblocking (Adblock & Adblock Filterset.G Updater)
- Tracking (TrackMeNot, CookieSafe, Adaptive Referrer Removal, and ShowIP)
- Other (SiteAdvisor)
IE 7 (7.0.5730.11)
- IE 7 Anti-Phishing Feature (Disabled)

HARDENING
Vista Services Enabled\Disabled based on Blackviper.com

ON DEMAND
To Be Determined

 

I still don't understand why people buy products like AVG Anti-Spyware and then have them on demand only, whats the point, its free for on demand, why pay for it.

Okay I think I might have done that in the past too.

dja2k

 

Good old high quality wired router

KIS (I'm completely impressed by this program. This is what a security suite is supposed to be!)

BOClean

AVG Anti-Spyware on demand

 

Lol, can you say "Overkill"?

 

Yes I can say "Overkill"! Overkill is you quoting the whole thing again. LOL

Most of it is hardening though and those on demand stuff only get runned once in a while, so what is so overkill about it? I have 2048 MB of memory and a 3.0ghz P4 overclocked @ 4.0ghz accompanied by two RAID 0 consisting of 4 - 120 GB hard drives, so nothing is slow nor do I not have enough space to spare.

dja2k

 

Nothing wrong with wanting to be secure online. Hell, just look at my sig.

 

Haha, lol I Overkill to xP . I never said I have a problem with it.

 

Cool, Cool

I feel naked with this little security running active. LOL

dja2k

 

Hello.

Not really much of an overkill there with dja2k's setup. Two AVs and BOClean yes, but everything else is pretty much complementary. If it works, why not...?

EDIT: You are combining NOD's heuristics with OA AV blacklists, and additional AT from BOClean. This doesn't have to be an overkill also.

 

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WINDOWS XP ACTIVE PARTIAL SETUP

ACTIVE
Online Armor AV+ (Beta 167)
- Standard Mode
- All Shields Enabled
- Custom Blacklists Enabled
Nod32 (2.70.32)
- Blackspear's Recommended Settings
SUPERAntiSpyware (3.6.1000)
- Default Settings
BOClean (4.22.002)
Geswall (2.6 Beta2)
- Isolate Know Applications
- All Browsers Automatically Isolated
LinkScanner Pro (2.5.2.0052.7)
- All Enabled
Hostsman (3.0.0.25 beta1)
- Auto Update
- HTTP Server Enabled

WINDOWS VISTA ACTIVE PARTIAL SETUP

ACTIVE
Nod32 (2.70.32)
- Blackspear's Recommended Settings
SUPERAntiSpyware (3.6.1000)
- Default Settings
Geswall (2.6 Beta2)
- Isolate Know Applications
- All Browsers Automatically Isolated
LinkScanner Pro (2.5.2.0052.7)
- All Enabled
Windows Vista Firewall
- Enabled
User Account Control (UAC)
- Enabled

BROWSERS, HARDENING, ON DEMAND can be found HERE

 

Actually I look at it this way, Online Armor gives the first call whether to run an application or not, then I can scan that with two of the top AV's without conflict (Nod32 and KAV) plus a triple check with #1 Anti-Trojan application (BOClean) all together. Anyone can call it what they want, it works for me, no conflict at all here, just added security and the feeling of being safer.

I am known to have huge lists and a lot of conflicting software running actively, so maybe I will add more or take some off, who knows, I will see how I feel later about my setup. I get bored of stuff easily thats why I love playing with new toys.

The funny part is if and only if one day I get infected with some virus or something, I will probably not try that hard to clean it out, just re-image my drive if its really bad. I just run all this security to see if one day something actually triggers it.

dja2k

 

hey dja2k, does LinkScanner Pro work better on your Vista setup?

 

Coming soon as added to the lineup in my config.

................FD-ISR plus Paragon Drive Image!

Been long time coming. I used to Image/Clone but have neglected that far too long now, time to get on track and up to speed with it.

 

have you purchased paragon drive image?
if not it might be worth trialing shadow protect desktop first...
lodore

 

Yeah WSFuser, Linkscanner Pro seems faster in Vista. I think its because Vista is newly installed and my XP setup is kinda old, been lazy to freshly install XP again.

dja2k

 

Active in memory:
-Kaspersky Internet security 6.0.2.675 (with local port restriction rules)@KAH -> Low Security
-Look'n'stop 2.05p3 (with phant0m's rules)
-Proxomitron 4.5 with Sidki's rules

On demand:
-AVG Antispyware 7.5
-Ad-Aware SE Personal
-Spybot S&D 1.4: TeaTimer off - SDHelper On
-Asquared Free 2.5 Beta
-Process Explorer
-F-secure - BlackLight
-Rootkit Unhooker

Hardening:
-Windows xp (nLite : Last hotfix merged)
-Personal registry security tweaks
-A lot of unused windows services disabled
-Immunity against 8739 malicious activeX
-SocketLock
-Dropmyrights for IE and Msn Messenger

 

Hey Sogno, now why would you want to run two firewalls? Look'n'Stop is sufficient by itself or Kaspersky Anti-Hacker, but not both, there's really no need.

dja2k

 

I only use kaspersky to block inbound traffic on typical malware ports, so Kaspersky AH is used as a port blocker and nothing else

 

Resident:

-Router with firewall
-AOL AVS
-Ghostwall
-AppDefend (only network access,rootkit drivers and keylogging enabled to ask).
-Power Shadow
-Reg Prot

On demand
-AVG Antispyware
-A squared Free
-SpyBot

 

I completely forgot. Thanks for reminding me. I read some reviews over the weeks that are nothing short of sensational as to do with ShadowProtect. PARAGON is done wonders for my units where Ghost and TI failed me miserably.

For others they're a work of art & a lifesaver, for me i sway neither here or there when it comes to Paragon but also can be encouraged by StorageCraft to a degree.

 

Resident:
KIS 6
BOClean
RegDefend

On Demand:
SuperAntiSpyware
Rootkit Unhooker

Hardening:
Seconfig
HostsXpert
SpywareBlaster

Browser Setup:
FF w/NoScript, ABP, Netcraft TB
SandBoxie

Backup/Recovery:
FD-ISR
IFW/IFD

 

Welcome ANunn!

dja2k