What is your security setup these days?

On Windows XP SP3,

Real-time:

Avast Home
Threatfire Free on level 4 with custom outbound rule
SandboxIE Free
Returnil Free
Defensewall trial
Secunia PSI

On Demand:

MBAM Free
SAS Free

Browser:

IE7
Firefox 3 with Adblock Plus, Greasemonkey, and Noscript. Will be going over the recent browser hardening thread and making adjustments shortly.

 

Hi

I changed my setup. I'm just seeing if this works. I'm considering getting rid of Returnil.

AntiVir free
Online Armor free
Sandboxie free
Returnil free

SAS free
MBAM free

Firefox - WOT, Netcraft, NoScript, Adblock Plus, CS Lite, RefControl, TrackmeNot, Stealther, CustomizeGoogle, TabRenamizer, VideoDownloadHelper)

Syncback

 

New test rig:

Outpost Security Suite Pro 2009
Sandboxie

(Remarkable performance...)

 

At long last: My Final Setup (behind Netgear Router)

Windows XP SP3 (nlited)

Resident
Avira Antivir (Free)
SAS Pro
Outpost Pro 2009
SandboxIE (Paid)

Backup
FD-ISR (Uncrippled version)
ShadowProtect

On-Demand
Gmer

Hardening
IE7 Pro
SpywareBlaster

Other
CCleaner
TrueCrypt
PeerGuardian (Only run during p2p)
Roboform

Windows Vista SP1 (Windows Defender disabled, UAC quiet mode)

Resident
KIS 2009
Defensewall

Backup
ShadowProtect

Hardening
IE7 Pro
SpywareBlaster

Other
CCleaner

Both setups are bulletproof in terms of protection and are extremely light.

 

Win XP Pro SP3

Hardware:


As always, high quality wired router (SPI/NAT) on duty!


On Access Protection:


F-Secure Client Security 7.12 Build 108

Primary Response SafeConnect 3.2.0.915


On Demand Protection


Norton Security Scan

Prevx CSI (paid)

SAS Pro

MBAM

Spybot S&D

SpywareBlaster


System Hardening

SafeXP

Seconfig XP

 

Hi

Well no setup has 100% protection.

 

ThreatFire
Vista UAC, built-in firewall.

It was a long run to settle to this setup.
However, I don't really like it.

It seems like every security software that provides
bullet proof protection is either "intrusive" or "hard to use" for me.

Any objection for this?

 

Maybe not, but my setup comes very close to it as i cant see how any malware can infect me with the configuration i have.

 

Hi

Maybe you could add some on-demand scanners.

 

Hi

Yes it's very good. But it could still be bypassed. Anyway I was just saying you made it seem like it was totally impenetrable, which would not be true.

Thanks

 

Vista 32 SP1 set-up "changes" in bold as of 7/12/08:

Resident:

DefenseWall HIPS v2.44
Netgear RP614 v2 Router w/NAT & SPI
Primary Response SafeConnect v3.2.0.915[Uninstalled]
Windows Firewall

On-Demand:

Autoruns
AVZ Antiviral Toolkit
CurrPorts
GMER
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free
Prevx CSI+
Process Explorer
RegRun Reanimator
Returnil 2008 Personal Edition(*Note: For testing purposes only.)
RootKit Hook Analyzer
RootRepeal
RunScanner
SUPERAntiSpyware Free
System Repair Engineer(SREng)

System Hardening:

Applied manual system hardening tweaks
Disabled non-essential Vista services
Enabled hardware DEP for all programs and services(OptOut)
Uninstalled Java Runtime Environment
Windows Worms Door Cleaner

Backup:

ERUNT(registry)
Paragon Drive Backup

Miscellaneous:

Primary Web Browser - Opera v9.52(w/manual privacy & security tweaks);(https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=211761)
(*Note: Please take note of posts #'s 1, 19, 22-23 & 25-26)
Email Client - The Bat! Home
Disable UAC with TweakUAC
Disabled Windows Defender


Peace & Gratitude,

CogitoErgoSum

 

Tring out Threatfire again.(maybe i'll have better luck this time)
Along with DefenseWall and L'n'S.



Edit: Removed TF
Added DrWeb and MBAM realtime.

 

XP SP3

SPI/NAT Router

Resident:
NOD32 v2.7
OA: Browsers, email, media players all set to Run Safer
RegDefend w/Tony's gsr and custom rules

On Demand:
SAS
MBAM
RKU

Hardening:
Spyware Blaster
DEP - Opt Out
Seconfig
Other reg and policy tweaks

Recovery/Backup:
FD-ISR: 3.21 B205
IFD

FF w/NoScript, Netcraft
SandBoxie

 

Wow

Whatta lineup. Reminds me of me. LoL

Anyone who enters this forum and takes up camp for very long gets a ringside seat to some of the best protections possible along with useful info.

As b4, and already mentioned, i;m currently in experimental phase again, working toward a more modular & miniaturized trimmed down but an extremely controlled environment w/o virtualization/AE/AS/AV/sandbox, etc. and see how well it goes with SuRun/Kafu + SRP once i get it set to particular standards i expect. I was floored by it's default settings.

Doubt though i'll ever part with my HIPS Eqsecure though and CyberHawk's old early version, at least on XP they sniff out pretty well what needs to be alerted to IMO.

 

On the Vista64 gaming box

a) Windows firewall (two way, also outbound)
b) Primary Safe Response
c) Avast (startup rotkit scan, standard module check when write)

Browser IE7 (in protected mode)

LUA in quiet mode

 

Hi,

Is it free version of Avast?

 

New setup on 'dummy' PC:

Sandboxie (paid)
Returnil
VMWare


System runs smooth as silk.

 

I'm trying to go as light as possible so I barely use anything.

Real-time:
Bitdefender AV
Mamutu (gaotd)
Router w/ nat

On-demand:
SAS
MBAM
Avira prem (services disabled)

I download so many things that I don't use any virtualization software.

 

Windows XP SP3

- I'm in a NAT (don't get own external IP by my provider)
- Norton Antibot
- KAV online every fortnight (now in Java - very good!)
- TrueCrypt

 

New setup on my dummy PC:

Sandboxie
Deepfreeze 6
Acronis True Image 10
SnoopFree


Ditched Returnil for Deepfreeze (Returnil uses so much resources, too much for my poor 384mb RAM to handle) and VMWare for True Image (VMWare seems to be buggy on my system and freezes 90% of the time)

 

Anti-Virus: None.
Firewall & HIPS: CFP 3.
Anti-Spyware: SUPERAntispyware & Malware Bytes (On-Demand).

Josh

 

Hello,
trying to use wmware with only 384mb of ram is completely insane. you should have at least 1GB before even thinking about using any visualization program. ram is so cheap way as well get some more ram and try again.i dont know what cpu you have got and a slow cpu will slow down the visualization program as well.

 

GesWall, Shadow Defender, and Acronis Ti.

 

SandBoxie 3.28
DefenseWall hips 2.44
AppRanger 1.8
SpyWareBlaster 4.1

 

LUA + SRP
Windows Firewall