What is your security setup these days?

Ha ha... it was calling out to you.

 

website blocking for sure

 

MBAM = malware monster and it gets stronger by snacking on malware.I just hope it never grows to chunky.

 

yeap

 

Old XP SP3 32 Bits

Sandboxie
NoScript

New W7 32 Bits

Sandboxie
NoScript
UAC, to the max.

Trying UAC for the first time. I thought the prompts were gonna bother me but they really don't. I am getting prompts when I open Task manager, Event log, CCleaner and the old version of KMPlayer that I use for watching videos. I wont be using this machine to watch videos so I think its going to be OK to use UAC.

Bo

 

Running Panda Cloud Pro. Light as a feather~

 

Good advice, Amit, and I probably should take it, except browsing and downloading are my 2 main vulnerabilities and Sandboxie has browsing covered, and also the download folder where things sit sandboxed until getting a good going over with a scanner or two. I figured since I was using Mamutu and EEK anyway, I might as well use EAM instead. But to tell you the truth even that feels like over-doing it, since scans never find anything getting past Sandboxie, and if something did I have a system image waiting on an external hard drive.

I think Online Armor is great, I have a license for it, and wonder about using it (or Privatefirewall) more than any other security question I have, but the Windows 7x64 firewall along with a router seems to be doing the job and very quietly.

 

Nice set up from a trusted gentleman!

 

My Mini Tool Box, I'm sure I missed a few things though.

ON DEMAND SCANNERS

MALWAREBYTES PRO
EMSISOFT ANTI MALWARE
HITMAN PRO
NORMAN MALWARE CLEANER
DR WEB CURE IT
MACAFEE AVERT STINGER
SPYWARE TERMINATOR

AV
KASPERSKY
BITDEFENDER
G-DATA
AVIRA
PANDA CLOUD
WEBROOT
NORTON
KINGSOFT CLOUD
COMODO IS
AVAST
AVG
MSE
SOPHOS
IKARUS
MACAFEE
DR WEB
VIPRE
NETWORK MALWARE CLEANER
TRUSTPORT
CRYSTAL SECURITY
ANVI SMART DEFENDER
IMMUNENT
VIRUSBUSTER
ESET
TREND MICRO
ROBOSCAN
F-SECURE
CLAM AV
BULLGUARD


SYSTEM DIAGOSIS
HIJACK THIS
HIJACK HUNTER
OTL
DDS
HIJACK FREE
ATTACK SURFACE ANALYZER
MINI TOOL BOX


MALWARE CLEANUP TOOLS
COMBOFIX
ROOTKILL
KASPERSKY REMOVAL TOOL
MALWARE DEFENDER
SOPHOS REMOVAL TOOL
COMODO CLEANING ESSETIALS
REGRUN REANIMATOR
UNHACKME
ROOTKIT REVEALER
ROOT REPEAL
AVZ ANTI ROOTKIT
EMSISOFT EMERGANCY KIT
REMOVEIT PRO
NORTON POWER ERASER
ANTI TROJAN PLUS
SPYDDL REMOVER
F-SECURE EASY CLEAN
MALWARE REMOVER
SPYBOT S&D
ULTRA VIRUS KILLER
ROUGE KILLER
FIXEXE
GMER
KASPERSKY TDSSKILLER
VBA ANTI ROOTKIT

USB
BITDEFENDER USB IMMUNIZER
USB OBLIVION


FIREWALL
DEFENSEWALL
COMODO FW+D
ONLINE ARMOR
PRIVATEFIREWALL
TINYFIREWALL
fireBwall
ZONE ALARM
OUTPOST
JETICO
GESWALL
SPYSHELTER

MALWARE PREVENTION
SANDBOXIE
EMET
APPGUARD
VOODOOSHEILD
EXERADARPRO
XP ANTI SPY
WINPATROL

VIRTUALIZATION
VIRTUAL BOX

CLEANUP
CCLEANER + CCENHANCER
JETICO BCWIPE
ERASER
BLEACHBIT
JETCLEAN
COMODO CLEANING
AUSLOGICS REGISTRY CLEANER
WISE DISK CLEANER
WISE REGISTRY CLEANER

DISK WIPING
JETICO BC TOTAL WIPE
DBAN

DEFRAG
DEFRAGGLER
AUSLOGICS DEFRAG
SMART DEFRAG


RESCUE CD
COMODO
F-SECURE
KASPERSKY
DR WEB
BITDEFENDER
AVG
AVIRA

ANTIKEYLOGGING
KEYSCRAMBLER
ZEMANA ANTI LOGGER


What do you think? If anyone needs reviews of any software listed I'm glad to help. I just listed the AV's don't use them all!

 

You better not! Your system would probably never boot, if you manage to install them all

Otherwise it's a nice list.

 

RR, thanks for the kind words.

Greetings

Bo

 

Very good setup

 

Of course I keep website blocking module enabled. MBAM is absolutely light and fast(makes old machines with low RAM sluggish though because of the relatively high RAM that MBAM consumes for an anit-malware). So why not? It's protection features are totally and exceptionally solid.

 

How would you know if the file you just downloaded is safe to recover from the sandbox? I mean you don't use HMP or MBAM like stuffs. Nor do you use multi-AV scanning online services like VirusTotal.

 

Thanks.

 

That's why I keep Hitman Pro just in case.A few days ago I let my kids download in Shadow Mode everything looked normal until we got to the toolbars,websearch change and Homepage etc.Ran a scan with HMP and it was screaming with riskware, addware,and malware.We also had about five new desktop icons.Rebooted and ran another scan with HMP and nothing was found everything was like nothing happened.Some files are way to big to upload them to VT or jiotti.IMO its good to at least have On Demand for that very reason.

 

Ah yes I know you could go with sbie, an on-demand scanner and an imaging software alone and will rarely get any infections. But hey I thought you were Wilders material by now - over paranoid! Just kidding. You're at least smarter than me. I also reside in the same situation as yours- only threats are downloading and vulnerabilities.

But I change my setup(rather like pump it up into a handsome bulk) from time to time because it serves two purposes. 1. Keeps me interested in security prospective. 2. Gives me a false sense of security thus allowing me to sleep tight and peace of mind.

 

Added HTTPS Everywhere for Chrome. Worried a bit since it's in alpha stage but no problems so far.

Still thinking of ditching an AV but I feel like something would be missing.

 

Good going Dave. That way you'll face no hassle of a realtime/on-access AV and enjoy a light and fast system. You've got rock solid protection there Dave.

 

I don't stop running files, downloaded from the internet, in a sandbox "just because they have been recovered to my system from a browsing sandbox". I run all files that I download from the internet and programs that I use every day in a sandbox all the time. As long as I use SBIE like that, I'll only concern myself with programs that I instal on my real system, something that I don't do often. I feel comfortable doing it like this, unlike if I was updating, upgrading, running scans all the time.



Bo

 

Bo do you think it is too risky to introduce unknown files to real system

 

Well AV-less setup was short lived. Added WSA.

 

you felt lonely my friend with no av

 

Thanks,hey no more Iron Man.

 

Removed HTTPS Everywhere after 5 minutes. It makes Google go to encrypted.google.com, which removes everything but Sign In. Annoying.

Also how is BitDefender Trafficlight at malware blocking? I've added it to Chrome and there are no slowdowns, but how effective would it be?

And what about System Explorer along AppGuard, just so I can make sure no malware is running? Then I could probably go AV free.