What do you guys use in order to protect your PCs?

I suggest some kind of sharing the experience What do you guys use in order to protect your PCs? As far as I know specialist recommend to use three basic means: firewall, anti-spyware and anti-virus. So what do you use? Please also add links. So, I think I'll be the first. So here is my recipe of 'total protection'

Firewall: Comodo(www.personalfirewall.comodo.com)

Anti-Spyware: Anti-Keylogger anti-keyloggers.com as permanent protection and Ad-Aware(www.lavasoftusa.com/) for scanning

Anti-Virus: NOD32(www.eset.com)

Waiting for your 'recipes'

 

Re: Good Article

See here:

What is your security setup these days?
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=111264


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rich

 

Re: Good Article

If you ask five "specialists" you will probably get five different recommendations of "basic means."

Without knowing a user's computing knowledge and habits, I can't see how a recommendation can be made from afar off.

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rich

 

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Hello,

Without debating about the meaning of "specialist" word, I agree. You can ask to ten people and have ten different answers. Personally, I've made two articles to help securing Windows, and in the last one anti-spyware is not considered basic at all (in fact I suggest you can use no anti-spyware).

It seems impossible anyway to give a basic setup fitting to everyone

Regards,
gkweb.

 

Most security "specialists" probably say to use at least an AV and firewall and AS software since adware is becoming so prevalent. It's a shame that you have to "lock down" the Operating System in order to use your PC now. Back in the old BBS days, that wasn't much of a concern.

I think the first barrier of defense that I use now is my "magnifying glass" of what I encounter going online. I scrutinize all email and all websites/downloads that I come across first. Anything of suspicious origin is ignored.

 

Sandboxie, ThreatFire, Windows Firewall, Returnil, Proxomitron. Happily clicking on every malicious link I can find with my copy of WinXP and IE6 which have gone unpatched for 4 years. I'm currently waiting for the new versions of GeSWall and SafeSpace to see if they can tempt me away from Sandboxie, as well as looking for a viable alternative to Proxomitron (unfortunately Proximodo looks as dead as a doornail as well).

 

The core of my security package is Kerio 2.1.5, SSM free, and Proxomitron. The 3 combined enforce a default-deny security policy that has allowed me to browse where I please without any problems for over 2 years now. No AV, anti-spyware, anti-trojan, etc installed.
Rick

 

Linux with Firestarter. That's it.

 

nod32/kerio firewall/spyblaster/windows Defender/

 

It depends on your connection.I will be going to DSL later this month and I know that a router is strongly suggested.
In addition I will be keeping Online Armor free edition for the software firewall.
An antivirus is a good idea too.I am currently using Vba32 Personal.
I use WinPatrol Plus and SAS free,also A-Squared free scanner.
I sometimes use Sandboxie and almost never use IE as a browser.

 

Hardware firewall.
F-Prot.
Defensewall.

 

Router FW/NAT
OA Plus
LSP monitor
(that is the realtime things)

Gerard

 

ThreatFire & AntiVir, that's it. Oh yea, a guard-dog too! Rough neighborhood and all....

 

Just using Avira Premium on a freshly reformatted system here.. Don't feel the need for anything else but that and the router...

 

Avira Premium on quad core and dual XEON PCs, nothing else.

 

Limited account and Look´n´stop firewall.

 

Ccsito, if you don't mind me asking, in what way do you first scrutinize your email and websites/downloads and is "magnifying glass" a name of some sort of program or are you just using that phrase generically?

 

WebCleaner (?)
An UTM Linux/BSD distro using Squid/Dansguardian (?)

He's talking about common sense/safe hex

 

Anyone using WebCleaner?

 

What do you guys use in order to protect your PCs?

I keep mine chained to concrete blocks - there is a greater probability of them getting stolen than contaminated.

 

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I just want to thank you for your article (part 1 also) I will recommend them to read for all my friends as base from which everybody interested in security should start. Before questions like - which firewall is the best etc. Thank you.

 

Realtime: Symantec AntiVirus Corporate, Trend Micro Anti-Spyware, Comodo BOClean, SpywareBlaster, SnoopFree.

On Demand: AVG Anti-Spyware, AVG Anti-Rootkit, RootkitRevealer.

Online: BitDefender, ESET.

I intend on in the future to replace Trend Micro Anti-Spyware with SuperAntiSpyware.

On Demand/Online scans are used alternately.

 

Had Blink until a few days ago, then felt the crazed need to try something else. Went to Webroot Desktop Firewall and it ran great until just a short time ago when I started getting the blue screen. Removed Webroot and everything is fine. I don't know the problem. It was great for a couple of days, and I bragged about it in another thread today.


So, I have Sandboxie covering my Netscape browser and Returnil engaged to handle all the rest. That might be overkill, but it's all working nicely. And, AVAST antivirus and a hardware firewall in my router and another firewall in our modem.

 

Router+KAV, that's all I need. D-Link DGL-4500 gaming router and KAV 7. I never get infected, and neither does my son.

 

ThreatFire
Opera
Vista Firewall
Router (Hardware Firewall)
NOD32

a bit of an overkill, eh?