Ended up reformating.. figure its time for a security overhaul.

Discussion in 'other software & services' started by shinysecure, Dec 12, 2009.

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  1. Meriadoc

    Meriadoc Registered Member

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  2. shinysecure

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    Alright well heres a bit of a revision and more questions :D

    AV: I am still thinking avast.. my only issue is the fact that it lacks heuristics.. Does that make Avira a better option? and is there something I can supplement avast with? What about using version 5 rather than 4.8.. how good is the beta?

    HIPS: As for Threatfire I belive I am going to drop it and just force myselve to become comfortable with defense+.. I have been looking for guides on setting it up better and learning how to handle things it prompts for.

    FW: Comodo

    On demand: malwarebytes, superantispyware Any other ideas for here?

    Other: Norton's UAC tool, keyscrambler, noscript, adblock+

    Seems like comodo time machine and returnil have a rather high chance to cause problems so I am probably going to avoid.

    Probably will use Shadow Defense.

    Can you explain please.


    Thanks for everyones help, learned a lot from this thread.
     
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  3. TheQuest

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    Hi shinysecure

    It is very good as a sandbox [I use it for that purpose], but does not let you test installs of software programs, because it does not have a persistent mode.

    For that you would need something like ShadowUser

    Take care
    TheQuest 8]
     
  4. shinysecure

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    Ah ok, Thanks for all the patience... trying to learn a lot while being overwhelmed...

    Security before a couple days ago to me was an antivirus, a firewall and some random adware scanners.. Learning A LOT.
     
  5. acr1965

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    If you have MBAM on demand I would drop SAS and grab Hitman Pro.

    http://www.surfright.nl/en/hitmanpro

    Of course, since SAS is free and does not use up resources while not running you can keep that as well.
     
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