What is your security setup these days?

With or without management (prompting) on COMODO?

 

Operating System :

Vista Business x64 SP2
UAC Off
Windows Defender Off

Real-Time :

Outpost Firewall Pro 6.7 (Webguard and anti-spyware disabled).
Avira Antivir Premium 9.0.0.47 full protection
Prevx Edge 3.0.1.65(default settings)
Key-Scrambler Pro 2.4.1.1
AVG Link-Scanner 8.5.337 Without AVG Toolbar.

No Conflict with these all real-time, very speed on Web.

On-Demand :

A-squared anti-malware 4.5.0.8

Browser :

Firefox 3.5.1

Others :

Manual Tweak services (NetBios, Remote Registry.....) and some good cleaner like (O&O Safe Erase 4 build 373, Tune Up Utilities 8.0.3300, Eusing registry 2.5.1, WinAso registry 4.2.0.0, WinAso Disk 2.1, Aml Registry 4.18.


Just one thing for the new release of Outpost with Avira Webguard, for no problem on install, first install Outpost and after Antivir.

Rules.

 

Replacing DW to test and learn AppGuard - Matt Rizos videos is a great source for some quick, insight in how software works and does.

 

appguard is really good but DW is more complete plus is adding a firewall

 

Always elaborate - how is it more complete?

 

Hmm what do you mean.
Defense+ is "maxed" and it asks about anything suspicious
Same goes to FW
I like it.

 

Free

 

Full List - July 27, 2009 - Updated , Added , Removed

Vista Home Premium SP2 (UAC OFF \ WD OFF)

Network
Two Linksys Routers (DD-WRT Firmware) in WDS Mode
WEP 128-Bit Encryption & Wireless MAC Filtering Enabled
SPI Firewall Enabled

Resident
Online Armor ++ 3.5.0.36 Beta (Paid)
Sandboxie 3.39.02 Beta (Paid)

On-Demand
Avira Antivir Personal 9.0.0.403
Shadow Defender 1.1.0.278 (Paid)
Active@ Disk Image 3.2.6 (Paid)
VMWare Workstation 6.5.2 - Various OS (Paid)

Browser, Immunization, Tweaks
Firefox 3.5.1 (Ad-Block Plus, CustomizeGoogle, Better Privacy, TACO, WOT, ShowIP, TrackMeNot)
KeyScrambler Personal 2.4.1.1 & RoboForm Pro 6.9.95 (IE & FF)
Malware Patrol's Block List (via Hosts File)
IP Blocklist file for Online Armor, Bluetack Blocklists (Level 1,2,3 for P2P)
Spybot Search & Destroy 1.6.2 (Partially Immunized \ Excluded Global Hosts)
Spyware Blaster 4.2 (All Protection Enabled + Customblocking.txt)
Vista Services Optimizer 1.1.42.2 (Manual Tuneup)
Ultimate Windows Tweaker 2.0 (Customized)
SpeedGuide.net Vista TcpIp Patch 1.3
TCP-Z 2.5.1.50 (TCPZ Driver Installed)
Greatis Reanimator 6.1.6.13 (Disk Protection - Enabled)

dja2k

 

First post

Network: Linksys WRT54GS / Tomato / WPA2


My computer:
XP-SP3:

Real-time:
ZoneAlarm Internet Security * (Paid)
ZoneAlarm Force-Field (on and off, depending on what I am browsing)

On-Demand:
A-Squared **
SuperAntiSpyware **
Avira **
MalwareBytes AntiMalware **

Browser:
FireFox ( NoScript, WOT, ShowIP, along with various other "handy" stuff such as ForecastFox, FoxyTunes etc.)
Chrome
Opera

~~~Edit~~~

I will be adding VBox later to toy with different OS setups and to do "risky" browsing.

* License is coming to an end, thinking of not renewing as ZAIS is a hog. All depends on how light the version 9 will be.
**Free



-yonton228/timmy

 

The secret "Parental Mode" method.

 

These are my new settings:

Vista Business 32 bits

Eset Nod32 v2.7 (old version but with the updated signatures)
Outpost Pro Firewall v 6.5.5
Prevx 3.0.1.65 free version
Sandboxie 3.38 (not yet configured)
Shadow Defender
Malwarebytes Antimalware (paid version)
Super Antispyware 4.26
Zemana Antilogger
Hostman with updated hosts file
Drivesnapshot
Image for windows


I'd like to know your opinion about these settings. Do I need a hips software like Processguard, Real Time Defender, Appguard, DW ??

Does it helpfull to install Avira Antivir Premium and uninstall Nod32 ?

 

Tired of sandboxing for now. Removed AppGuard and added Rising PC Doctor once again. Feels good - the operation of PC Doctor is great. (Automatic! Now that's my bag, brother. ) We'll see if DW v3.0 changes my opinion because of usability improvements. Will probably replace MSE with NAV 2010 (Beta) once boot problems are fixed for my particular system, and probably a number of others.

 

as in my sig, Due to Usability inconvenience I have dumped deep freeze and replaced it with Sandboxie.

 

DefenseWall

Sandboxie (custom rules)

ShadowDefender

RollbackRx

Keyscrambler

A2, MBAM, SAS on demand scanners

Behind a Router





What more do I need? lol

 

Yea I suppose it is similar in some ways, But you will NEVER see me dump malware defender and replace it with comodo or replace it with any else.

MD and sandboxie work well side by side no conflicts or slow downs.

 

one easy example will be the new firewall that is coming soon appguard will never has it then rigth click terminate malware in real time/more rollback feature,what else mmm screen capture protection and keyboard protection and more

 

Okay, thanks for elaborating, even if you dunno if Blue Ridge Networks will implement it in the future, do you? One of the employees of Blue Ridge Networks is discussing and getting feedback from Kees, so I don't think they'll be too far away from "complete" if they take the advice that he delivers.

 

Real-time:
Vista SP2 (x64):
Kaspersky AV 2010
Outpost Firewall Pro 6.7
Prevx 3.0 (Free)

XP PRO SP3:
Outpost Firewall Pro 6.7
Sanboxie 3.38
GeSWall 2.8.3
Prevx 3.0 (Free)

On-Demand: Avira AntiVir Personal v9, MBAM, A2-Squared Free, Hitman Pro 3.5

 

Every level of security has its price in terms of user interaction/knowhow.

DefenseWall
From all the full flown security/intrusion protection applications I know, DefenseWall has the lowest 'user burden' for both configuration and usage.

But Defense Wall will still pop-up when browsers or e-mail clients access the keyboard (or any other object defined in resource protection). Thing is DW will not restrict you in any way (allows execution of untrusted sources), protects downloaded files no matter where they are (no hassle whether they are in or out of a sandbox). All in all DW is the only HIPS usable for Noobs wanting a security enthousiast level of protection.

Appguard
Appguard has choses a different approach by adding LUA like protection (while DW has stronger than LUA) plus it provides a deny execute of the user space data storage (in this way it is more limiting than DW). AG will soon provide MBR protection and direct disk access protection (something LUA of Windows offers, but Appguard not).
The benefits of Appguard are that it is so easy to use and even with its limited LUA protection the default deny policy will provide adequate protection. So AG really is more of a soft HIPS (like HauteSecure), but with a near full HIPS protection in daily practise. So it is suited for all noobs. When you back AG with a solid OS like Win7 (set UAC to prompt for non user initiated elevations) you have a winner for Noobs.

Bottem line
I think they are both great (as are GeSWall and Sandboxie or the helas abondoned Safe Space). No software will protect you from making faulty decisions. The best way to deal with this is to provide the user as little decision (pop ups) as possible.

 

Tested with GeSWall again, uninstalled it after like 10 min. after testing around since I noticed it was the culprit of many problems, like my games getting sandboxed in some special way (this one I knew, and it made all my games lag severely - enough reason for me), buffer overflow-error for Google Talk (NOT DEP - now I can probably turn that on completely again! mystery solved! ), etc.

 

Have you tried AppGuard with you games, would like to know thanks (also interested to know how it handles teamspeak and the game updaters etc)

 

I dunno if I came that far when running AppGuard (), but I don't expect that to be a problem at all unless you add the games specifically into AppGuard's list of limited apps.

 

Perfect... created a folder named "Install" on my desktop, added it to exceptions in DW, confirmed by running a setup file in there (no limitation done by DW), then dragging it out to my bare desktop - it's limited. Running MSE as backup per Kees setup and advice.

This will definitely do it for now. Looking forward to v3 and will most probably purchase a license soon - time will tell my experience with this setup, but it looks good from my view right now.

 

6 Weeks n' no changes (except for updating versions).....must be a new record for me.
Active
DefenseWall
MalwareDefender

On-Demand
MalwareBytes
Prevx

Along with...
Opera and OpenDNS

and sometimes Sandboxie.....for the darkerside of the net.

 

appguard still godd adition to antivirus