Is this adequate protection for work/home PC

Hi

I am a website designer so my PC is central to my work. With this in mind and also the security of my customer's information (stored on my PC), I just want to check to see whether the security measures I have settled on are adequate.

My current set up is:

Firefox (NoScript)
Thunderbird (Email forwarded through GMail for spam filtering)
Comodo Firewall
AntiVir Personal Premium
SUPERantispyware Pro
ProSecurity Free
Windows automatic updates ON

I also use Bitdefender Free, and AVG Antispyware Free, on demand. In addition I backup my hard drive with Acronis True Image twice a week.

What do you think? Good? Adequate? Poor? Anything missing? Overkill?

Thanks in advanced

 

sounds like a great setup to me.
lodore

 

Perhaps a little overkill. Antivir PE Premiun detects PUPS, SAS Pro detects PUPS too.
Comodo overlaps with PS free.
I think that your setup is pretty good.

 

U can also adds SpywareBlaster, Harden-IT, SafeXP, and Windows Worm Doors Cleaner.

 

You've got to that point where it's all opinions. I agree with the others, if you're comfortable with that (know what they do, how to use them), you're fine.
Just take a peak at the concept of sandboxing, and see if you'd drop something with that included.
Maybe you did that already

 

The reason I went with the ProSecurity Free as well as Comodo firewall was I ran the dfk-threat-simulator-v2, and I was shocked at how easily it terminated Antivir PE Premiun, and SUPERantispyware Pro, and pretty much bypassed CyberHawk (since removed).

I ran the test again with ProSecurity Free and nothing was terminated and no threats even got going...

 

You could reduce the overlap disabling redundant features in Comodo such as "Behaviour Analysis" and "Component Monitor".

 

Do you know what, that is what I am starting to realise, and I know how everything I have works, and I feel confident with it.

I did try sandboxing, but I download/install quite a bit of software and music/video files, and it was driving me crazy as I was having to restart my PC all the time etc...

 

Thanks! That's an excellent idea, if they overlap I may as well...

 

GeSWall and DefenseWall let you download whatever you want. Check them out, either here (plenty of threads) or at their websites.

 

well antivir should have self protection soon.
I belive nick who makes superantispyware is impumenting selfprotection in to superantispyware soon as well.
kernal mode online armour is out soon.
that could replace quite a few apps if you willing to try it.
www.tallemu.com
lodore

 

Personally I like the idea of having windows updates set to "notify, but don't download or install". There's stuff you (and I ) might not want. IE7 was released as a priority security upgrade, for example. There's other stuff that sometimes just mightn't be applicable.

 

I have it set up to notify, although I usually download most things... Working with websites, I had already downloaded the beta version of Internet Explorer to play with, but I only use it for testing websites.

 

I might have gotten the Antivir Suite and removed Commodo thats all. Simply to reduce the number of Apps thats the only reason.