What is your security setup these days?

1. I like Avira for it's protection, but I do not like the ads, That is why I don't use it anymore. As far as I can tell (Personal tests), Bitdefender Free has passed in everything I threw at it. The memory consumption is tad bit high for my tastes, but I like it enough to where I don't want to get rid of it at this point. Plus it doesn't feel like the computer is dragging at all. Thanks for your recommendation though.

2. I have a licensed copy of Shadow Defender, It's good protection. I just don't use it because the last version I used was a bit buggy on my machine.

3. Comodo Dragon won't run with ExploitShield, even if you rename the executable. ExploitShield I do want to keep no matter what.

Once again, I want you to know...I do appreciate your input.

 

i never did get any ads with Avira Premium and even Avira Free (registry fix to remove ads and toolbar)

 

when i tried avira free i blocked the advertisement fyer with Online armor

 

Yes, i also did that with Defense+, a few years ago

 

Your welcome.

 

If I remember correct I thought there was a tweak in the registry to cancel out the ads.That was one thing about Avira that drove me nuts was ads and popups after an update. IMO having ads dont force people to pay but to look for a free alternative that dont slam us with ads.

 

i think it is Agnitum rebrand . I may be wrong

 

Back to light and lovely

 

Good price, I got Bullguard2013, 5 licenses, 3.2 years for $40.00.. Ridiculous price really. That's about .20cents a month per PC for coverage over the next 3.2 years. Virtually free!

 

Admuncher blocks all of that too.

 

Hi, new to wilders thought i would post mine.

Win7x64 Home Premium

Chrome w/ Adblock Plus, HTTPS-Everywhere

Malwarebytes PRO in real time

Win7 Firewall w/ Advanced block in/outbound.

EMET 3.0 for Chrome

 

Good Evening ! Emsisoft Anti-Malware 7.0...WSA Essentials...AppGuard. BOOM! Lol...Sincerely...Securon

 

Sandboxie
Shadow Defender

NVT ERP

HitmanPro

Drive Snapshot

How's my setup guys?

 

Well, let's see here... SBIE, check.

Image (just in case) - check

Yep... you're good to go! Everything else is really just window dressing.

 

I blocked the update ad with D+, and blocked the splash screen via a registry tweak.

And blammo... annoyance free free version.

If I remember correctly, if you disable auto updating in the settings but then use the scheduler to schedule them in intervals instead, then you don't get the ad. + then you can update it more than once a day.

Yeah, I pretty much used & abused Avira Free. Really nice, light AV that played well with Comodo FW/D+ back in my real-time AV days.

 

What is NVT ERP?

 

NoVirusThanks Exe Radar Pro

 

bitdefender free
oa free
malwarebytes free
hitman pro free
emsisoft free


windows 8 64

 

Could not possibly agree more. All these neat toys we play with are rendered moot if we lock down our OS/browsers to begin with. The one thing I feel is missing from my setup is a dedicated anti-exploit solution, like EMET or ExploitShield. I won't use EMET because .NET Framework is bloated like crazy on XP and I just won't install it period. Then EMET slows down XP on top of that.

But I greatly diminish the need for such products because I don't have vulnerable services/processes leaving ports hanging wide open and/or listening in on them. Heck, I have hardly any services or processes running period, only what's absolutely necessary to make my box run properly. I can type in "netstat -an" into my command line and see nothing listed there at all. That is decreasing attack surface.

I do plan on giving ExploitShield a good hard look though once there's a stable/final build of it, and it's matured a bit, since it doesn't rely on .NET Bloatwork to function.

 

okay

here I go again.

gdata internet security minus FW
zemana paid
zemana free
malwarebytes paid
sandboxie paid firefox
ccleaner daily secure wipe
privatefirewall HIPS

please critique

 

whats a good free combo of firewall and av free on windows 8?

could anyone help please

thanks

 

Ah my memory is not all gone yet,there is a tweak in the registry.

 

What comes built-in, lol. Windows Firewall + Windows Defender (in Windows 8, Windows Defender is a complete AV).

Avast Free + Windows Firewall is another nice alternative IMO.

 

how good is the windows defender ?