What is your security setup these days?

After reading this: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6730 and a few other sites, removed Ghostery and re-did my Adblock Plus lists to Fanboy's ads, tracking and annoyances.

edit: Now using Fanboy's Ultimate List.

 

Easylist & Easyprivacy suit me just fine. Fanboy's annoyances block my FB and Twitter integration.

 

SS is doing sweet as always,smooth and light but powerful,it's all i can say about it after more than 4 month of use.Force start in SBIE are only my browsers,i don't feel the need for another apps to.WinPatrol,light as a feather,don't know even it's running or not.

 

Router wilth firewall on
Panda Cloud Antivirus Pro, MBA on demand
DropMyRights (All my browsers) or LUA
EMET Microsoft (All my browsers, java, Office Programs, Media Player, Foxit Reader)
Norton DNS (Security Policy)
Spyware Blaster
Google Chrome (extensions Adblock Plus with Easy List and Void list, Search Engine Security), java plugin disabled, block javascript (allow GR and COM domains), click to play plug-ins, block indirect cookies and Allow session HTTP cookies for casual browsing
Firefox+Sandboxie (NoScript on and Referer disabled) java plugin disabled, searching unknown Internet
Activate tip 1806
Disabled autorun
All latest updates and a lot of common sense
At least my system is quite and not overloaded and feel good about it.

 

thanx jmonge doing good here. yes i think this is from India but it is fine

 

Now it's a solid setup. I strongly recommend sandboxie. It'll amazingly strengthen your setup. What is your backup plan? Imaging app? Cloud backup? You could try SecurityKiss as a secure VPN.

 

Very good move. You could add NoScript if you can handle it of course.

 

Fanboy's Ultimate List for me. Simple one list and very strong.

 

Ah great to hear the apps are working for you buddy.

 

Glad you posted that, I hadn't seen that option when adding the Fanboy's lists. Looks like the Ultimate has what I was using plus an additional list, Enhanced Trackers List.

I'll try NoScript again, which in Chrome I think is ScriptNo.

 

The Stanford Law School article was excellent. Numerous positive statements can be found within the article regarding Ghostery.
The mozillaZine thread, otoh, takes a turn south with the post that asks, "Did you ever notice that Ghostery belongs to Better Advertising company?"
When someone suggests that "Better Advertising after all it is only a name", the respondent way overplays the FUD card with, "Hitler is only a name, but you planning to name your kids that?". Ugh. Pretty bad.

Cut back to the Stanford Law School article, and we find Andy Kahl, Ghostery Product Manager, contributing this...

As Kahl further points out,
"Don’t forget, it (GhostRank)’s opt-in", and encourages folks to "Dig a little deeper". He adds,

My take is that Ghostery explains itself quite well. One or two of the mozillaZine posters seemed a bit over-the-top in the paranoia department. I am glad that justenough posted the link to the info for us. But after reading all of it, I wasn't even moved to opt-out of GhostRank, let alone remove Ghostery.

 

there is a whole thread (a couple actually) devoted to ScriptNo here at Wilders.
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/search.php?searchid=4803818

the consensus is that SN is nowhere near as effective as NS.

 

GERY

 

You may be right, but there are also things said elsewhere about Ghostery like what's quoted below. Since there is duplication between Ghostery and Fanboy's Ultimate List, I went with just ABP.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/06/ghostery.html

"The privacy impact of Ghostery is something completely different though, as it's made to transmit hit-stats back to Ghostery (unless you explicitly opt-out of this). Fun thing is: even if you've opted out, some of that "aggregate data" is transferred as soon as the addon updates it's rules.
I think this is presents a privacy impact which is comparable to the impact the resources blocked by the addon would have." - Mike August 19, 2012

 

back to Eset, cant handle the toolbar in paid Avira

 

Eset

 

Good Afternoon ! Eset S.S.5...Lock and Load. Mind you a very Light Load...Lol. Sincerely...Securon

 

Tryin' a new combination,Emsisoft AntiMalware,PrivateFirewall and SBIE.So far so good.

 

Norton Antivirus 2013 cause Kaspersky Antivirus is not working for me anymore.(won't start at all)
The "B" hotfix didn't fix the problem.

 

OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Antivirus: Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2013
DNS: Norton DNS and or OpenDNS
Software Firewall: Windows 7 Firewall w/Advanced Security
Hardware Firewall: 2Wire Gateway w/NAT
On Demand Scanners: MBAM
Portable Scanners: Too many to list
Rescues: Bitdefender Rescue CD,BitDefender Rescue Recovery Mode via Spacebar.
Imaging: Paragon Backup & Recovery Free 2012, Windows 7 Backup & Restore
Backup: SkyDrive,Auslogics BitReplica
Browser: Chrome 22 w/ABP (,EasyList & Privacy),LastPass
Cleaners: CCleaner
Registry Tools: Auslogics
Defragger: Auslogics Pro
Compression: WinRAR
Software Updater: Secunia PSI
Task Manager: Process Hacker
System Information: Speccy,PC Wizard 2012
Uninstaller: Advanced Uninstaller Pro

Finally got around to making a bootable cd with BD. Also played around with tapping the spacebar upon bootup to gain access to the recovery scan. Nice feature.

 

Kaspersky IS 2013 (web shield/email & spam shields disabled)
Ad Muncher
MBAM on demand
HMP on demand
VirusTotal uploader
SBIE on demand at times

everything running smooth

 

Same as it ever was,for the last 3plus years now.

 

Updated setup using new Chromium privacy features and Exploitshield (beta) for chrome (click signature to see).

 

I'm trying to decide if my new security setup will include Windows at all in 2013. I'm seriously considering a Mac and forgetting all this nonsense.

My Windows Update UPDATER is now broken. None of the online suggestions (of which there are about a half dozen with my error code) has worked. I can't update a critical security patch with without a new updater for my updates! I'm tired of this crap.

 

Reformat and reinstall Windows. Its that easy. I also have been looking into a Mac Book Pro. But the whopping $1700 price tag is shying me away.