What is your security setup these days?

Just to say...(on my first post) what an excellent forum this is and it is interesting to know what others use for security, and there has been some fantastic feedback on this subject!

Back to the original topic:

I currently use:

Kaspersky anti-virus
Windows (XP) Firewall

On Demand:

C.Cleaner
Eusing Registry Cleaner
Advanced Windows care 2
Auslogics Disk Defragment
Auslogics Registry Defragment


Kaspersky is a good anti-virus but it hogs your PC down quite a bit...and has created problems with XP not recognizing it. (ie...constant reminders that i have no anti-virus installed/and or switched off at the start-up)

I will be doing a complete XP installation in the next week or so and i will be changing my security.

Avira anti-virus
Armour (free edition) Firewall
Spybot real time (tea-time) protecion

Manual:

Superantispyware
WindowsCare2
Win Patrol
Spyware Blaster
C.cleaner

 

andyinteractive

Welcome to Wilders!

 

Realtime

-Avast ! AV Home 4.8

On demand

- AVG-AS
- SAS
- MBAM
- Ad-Aware 2008

Others

- Spywareblaster

- CCleaner

(All free)

 

I forgot to mention that I have to install IE if I like to install and use RoboForm

 

EQS V3.6
Safe 360 V4.0
IceSword EN
TrueCrypt 5.0
VMWare 6.0
Process Monitor V1.
Wopti Utilities Free
Returnil multi partition protection edition.
Ghost 10
Windows Firewall
Limit account

 

why not Firefox ?

 

I don't use IE but RoboForm needs some of it components to work.

 

Hi to everybody in this great forum!

My setup (pc1/pc2: XP SP3):
Comodo Firewall 2.4
Comodo Memory Firewall
Avira Premieum (6 months lic) (PC1) / Avast 4.8 Home (PC2)
SuperAntiSpyware 4.1 Pro
Threatfire 3.5 Free (+Custom Rules/Outbound Control)
Sandboxie 3.26 Registered (Custom Sandboxes per application)
PeerGuardian (with many BlueTack Lists)
Hosts File from Spybot Immun. (Had some problems with MVPS)
Firefox(Adblock Plus/NoScript) & Thunderbird -> Sandboxied
On Demand: Spybot, A2Free, DrWeb CureIt
(maybe too much but both pcs work perfect(almost!))

pc3: (Pentium III 450!!!/Win2000): Avast Home, SAS Pro, Comodo Firewall 2.4, PeerGuardian2

 

I don't use IE either. Roboform works just fine with Firefox and an add on. Are you saying that Roboform would not work if IE was removed from the OS ?

 

Yes I'm saying that. I can't even install it if IE is removed.

 

"old" FDISR frozen with Free Online Armor HIPS.

 

Played with a few setups,

But XP firewall, DefenseWall with added resource protection on Registry and ThreatFire with oubound warning custom rule really do the job

 

Active
Look'n'Stop
DefenseWall
Sandboxie
AntiBot


On Demand
DrWeb CureIt
SuperAntiSpyware
Malwarebytes AntiMalware


Opera

 

After a fresh format, i will try to stick with this one for more than a week.

-Returnil GAOTD
- Avast
-PC Tools firewall
-RegProt

On demand:
Dr. Web Cureit.

 

A few experimental changes :

1. Firefox v2.0.0.14 has now a new extension, called "Delicious Bookmarks" to support the system/data split technology.
2. Firefox is now double sandboxed by DefenseWall HIPS v2.40 and Sandboxie v3.26 in a frozen system to improve security.
Not sure if it all will work together, but time will prove.

Plans for the near future : Faronics Anti-Executable Standard v3

 

don't understand how delicious bookmarks "supports system/data split technology" ? looks like a good book mark program but nothing more. Is there some special feature I can't see ? Have you tried Roboform ? not only handles passwords and profiles but can add all favorites or bookmarks - protected or unprotected. Good to have everything within one program.

 

Delicious Bookmarks or other similar extensions like Foxmarks let you store your bookmarks on their server. You don't need bother to keep backing up the bookmarks file. Just update the copy on the server.

You can also download your bookmarks to any Firefox (that has the extension).

 

Online Armor Personal
DriveSentry
Avast Home

Simple, effective, and very light.









ThePheonix always rises.

 

When you separate system and data and use a frozen system, your bookmarks are a problem. You can store them as usual, but after reboot they are gone.
There are several ways to solve this, but Delicious Bookmarks looks like the most easy and convenient way to keep your bookmarks, instead of storing them in an unfrozen partition or in a excluded folder in the frozen partition.
The expression "supports system/data split technology" is more a joke than serious, but with Delicious Bookmarks you can avoid to store your bookmarks in a data partition, while your Firefox can be installed completely on the system partition.
I hope I explained it well, because explaining more complex things in English isn't my strength.

 

Thanks - now I can see. I have moved the firefox profile to D: using
firefox.exe -ProfileManager. I can see how leaving the profile on C: would help but then perhaps there would be problems with NoScript and Adblock plus

 

Laptop

LUA
DEP enabled
Antivir Personal
Sandboxie Registered
Firefox with NoScript, CS Lite, RefControl
Vista Firewall

Desktop

DMR
DEP enabled
Sandboxie Registered
ThreatFire
Returnil free
XP SP3 Firewall
IE7

Wife’s PC

DMR
DEP enabled
Avast Home
SAS free
Hosts file from http://www.malware.com.br/index.shtml
XP SP2 Firewall
IE6

4th PC

DEP enabled
Antivir Personal
ThreatFire
OA free – IE7 and Firefox runsafer
MBAM free

Linksys or Buffalo Router with DD-WRT

 

Resident:
NETGEAR Router w/NAT and SPI Firewall on and UPnP set to off

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My Laptop
Windows XP Pro SP3
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On-Access:
Eset Nod32 Antivirus
Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro
SuperAntiSpyware Pro

On-Demand:
Dr.Web CureIt!

Other:
CCleaner
FirstDefense-ISR
SpywareBlaster

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Family PC
Windows XP Pro SP3
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On-Access:
Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0

On-Demand:
Dr.Web CureIt!
SuperAntiSpyware Free

Other:
CCleaner
SpywareBlaster

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Recommended for friends and family who don't want to spend the £££
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On-Access:
Avira AntiVir Personal
Comodo Boclean
Comodo Firewall Pro w/D+

On-Demand:
Dr.Web CureIt!
SuperAntiSpyware Free

Other:
CCleaner
SpywareBlaster

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and if anbody suspects anything has got through I recommend they run
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HijackThis
Eset Online Antivirus Scanner
Symantec Security Check
ewido
F-Secure Online Virus Scanner
BitDefender Online Scanner
Trend Micro HouseCall
Kaspersky Online Scanner (Detect only)

If anybody recommends I add/remove anything plz let me know!

 

Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 with Tomato 1.19 OpenWRT (atm very basic. learning all the time) + OpenDNS

 

Too many HD's with different combos so nothing can ever foul up my configs again. LoL

This latest is Comodo Memory Guardian w/ also Comodo D+ newest version, and as always since it's liteweight EQS 4.0 beta with Alcyon's Rules.

SandboxIE latest version with Returnil and on top of all this DEEP FREEZE standard.

Thinking about adding Anti-Executable too, but will see how this set up handles some malware samples thrown at it.

I consider this set up my Armor Plated config

 

Easter do use fire fox no script and admuncher because these 2 filters out a lot of malware before it can even get into your Sandboxie, just wondering because I never seen you say you use no script.

anyway my setup.

Active.

Firefox no script
admuncher
Sandboxie
Antivir
Comodo 3 D+ with strict firewall rules.
Mamutu
Protowall with peer gaurdians blocks lists imported, used when p2p downloading.
Roboform

Hardening Tools

Bug off
Safe xp
Seconfig
Security @ Privacy
xp antispy
Samurai
MVPS Hosts file
All unused windows services disabled.