Advice on Security Setup

I need to see if I need anything else or need to remove anything in my setup
-Firefox 3.6.3
-Opera 10.60 Beta
-My Defrag 4.3.1
-Secunia PSI
-Microsoft Security Essentials
-Prevx 3.0 (When I put money in my account
-Free Window Registry Repair (Wanted more of a utility like TuneUp, Auslogics boost speed
-Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1
-Cobian Bacup
-MalwareBytes Free
-Revo Uninstaller Free

Ideas/Suggestions? Matt

 

Inbound/outbound firewall. Take your pick of free one's. Outpost, Online armor, Private and PCtools plus. MSE and prevx will do you well for AV/AM. Depending on your browsing habits you should be good to go. You can add something like defensewall, geswall or sandboxie if you want to secure things further.

 

I would switch to chrome for a browser, It seems to be the safest at the moment.

 

Thanks kjde

Sorry about your celtics.

I have heard good things about online armor. I have never heard of outpost.

I removed Opera & Registry repair.

I will add the paid prevx soon.

 

Which version of OA would you suggest?Online Armor Premium Personal Firewall or Online Armor Personal Firewall ++?

 

Add some sort of Sandboxing and you ll be good to go anywhere
and come out clean.
Bo

 

[ Keep - Add - Remove ]

-Firefox 3.6.3 +WOT+Adblock Plus+KeyScrambler
-Sandboxie
-Opera 10.60 Beta
-My Defrag 4.3.1 -OR- Puran Defrag Free
-Secunia PSI
-Microsoft Security Essentials
-Trusteer Rapport
-Prevx 3.0
-Free Window Registry Repair
-CCleaner
-Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1
-Cobian Backup
-Macrium Reflect Free
-MalwareBytes Free
-Revo Uninstaller Free

 

I'm not

 

Doesn't Trusteer Rapport do a similar thing to Prevx SafeOnline?

Cheers.

 

Yes. but safeonline offers more protection than Rapport

 

I guess that you are referring to the PAID version of Prevx/SafeOnline,
because the Free version of Prevx/SafeOnline offers NO Malware Removal.

In fact, when the Free version of Prevx/SafeOnline Detects Malware,
it starts with Nag Screens to warn you
that it can Not Remove Malware
and that you have to Upgrade (=Purchase) to the PAID version.

I prefer Trusteer Rapport

 

Hi Matt,
I have looked over your list and have added and removed some items:

-FireFox with Adblock plus Easylist and malware domain subscription
-Mozilla Thunderbird
-OA ++ or Premium (FireFox and Thunderbird set to RunSafer)
-Prevx 3.0 SafeOnline Paid
-Puran Defrag Free
-CCleaner
-Secunia PSI
-Cobain Backup or Macrium Reflect
-MalwareBytes
-Revo Uninstaller

Note: Currently there is a promotion for the month of June on all Tall Emu products!
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=274565

Hope this can give you some help and have a nice day!

Kind Regards,
Cgeek

 

Must be a lakers fan.

 

Actually my son is, he's a huge Lakers fan so I went with them. I went for Boston when they played Cleveland, tired of hearing about "King" James, Lebron this, LeBron that. Seems like Rajon Rondo was the "King" during that series.

 

Hey Cgeek

Thanks for the suggestions. I unfortunately as of now until I can buy a new keyboard in the AM, dual booting with ubuntu. For some strange reason, when I did my last scan a few hours ago and returned to the vista login screen, I can not imput any data (or login). I figured my keyboard was kaput but as you see, it is typing very nicely with my dual boot of ubuntu lucid, so I haven't the foggiest idea why this is. As soon as I can get a new keyboard this week I shall look over these options

I have with your list
-Thunderbird
-OA Free
-Secunia PSI
-Malware Bytes I can readd
-Revo Uninstaller
-Cobain Backup or Macrium Reflect Question..is one that much superior over the other?

I will grab Purian Free as well. Matt

 

Hey Sportsfan,

Whenever you decide to get Prevx license, if you buy from here http://www.surfright.nl/en/shop/ , you'll get a free Hitman Pro license. It's a great deal, I bought it myself a couple days ago.

 

I plan to Just did not expect this hiccup.

 

AFAIK Cobian doesn't have a full system restore feature. Macrium does. It depends if you want data backup or restore your whole system partition.

As indicated here:
Cobian thread

Kind Regards,
Cgeek

 

Using Reg Cleaner of CCleaner more safe than Auslogics,IMO refer your sig.

Auslogics too much aggressive.

 

Add sandboxie and your setup will be ideal. You can even ditch Malwarebytes and MSE once you become comfortable with using Sandboxie. I would keep Prevx anyway, especially as you have indicated you paid for it, although it is not necessary - sandboxie is all you need for safe browsing.

 

the full Prevx SafeOnline can be downloaded for free..
http://prevx.com/safebook.asp

my reason for using prevx is its MITM protection... antikeylogging... antiphish/pharming... protection from cookie stealing.
Does your long list of apps cover these scary things?

Also this:

SafeOnline alone covers alot and if you add into LUA/SRP combo that makes most malware unable to execute unless you forcefully do so... its pretty much complete... much more with 64bit.

since most malware can't run on LUA/SRP environment and SafeOnline offers free malware detection, I can easily locate the virus and just simply delete it.
an on-demand antivirus/antimalware for disinfecting files is also nice to have.

 

Updated in my Sig. How do I look?