What is your security setup these days?

OTE=mhl6493]Just curious, did something specific happen with Avira, or did you just decide to make a change?[/QUOTE]

Nevermind.
Gone back to avira.

 

Man, that was fast.

I used MSE for about a year, Avast! for about a year as well, and Avira for about two years or so (maybe even three). Am I the winner now?

 

Good Evening ! C2D!...as quickly as your can say Securonitis...I've gone for Speed...ESET S.S.6..And of course WSA Security Plus...Bam...Pow...meanwhile back in Gotham City! Lol! Sincerely...Securon

 

More than okay. Especially if you know what you are doing on the internet. Just for fun you might take a look at Sandboxie sometime.

 

COMODO Firewall (HIPS is disabled, BB is enabled)
Bitdefender Antivirus Free
Norton ConnectSafe

Imitating (almost, not all) Kees settings in COMODO Firewall, I have a very quiet security without user interaction.

 

Have been running with Avast! for a few days. No problem so far. I asked my brother if he ever got BSOD with Avast!, he said he never had any. So perhaps it was my setup which caused BSOD back then. It's so smooth and lightweight now. I'm in love with Avast! again.

Alright RejZoR, I'll admit it. You're right, and I was wrong. Totally wrong. Avast! isn't buggy and a troublemaker as I said. And I appreciate that they allow me to choose what components to install and what not to, so I still can use it as a basic AV. Therefore, sumimasen. m(_ _)m

 

Switched back to ERP from Appguard

 

Back to WSA

 

What's in my sig

 

Very powerful setup, I like it

 

Also extremely light

 

Indeed it is, How do you like the newer version of SpyShelter Firewall?

 

Switched to Bitdefender internet security and it's great

 

i want to try some thing new,maybe a security suite ot just an antivirus with proactive protection

 

It is great! Keystrokes encryption is very useful functionality these days

 

Has anyone tried Blue Point Security lately? I remember it was pretty good since it's whitelist + cloud. But I haven't seen it mentioned here in a long time...

 

I happen to have a license, I might give it a go again.

Thanks

 

I would advise EAM or WSA, since you allready use EAM, here are some tweaks for WSA (use it on my wife's laptop, who is allergic to security pop-ups and questions she does not know the answer to). I have set the slider to set and forget in main setings window of WSA.


1.TOP LEFT Monitor internet facing software ==> WSA keeps them in a LUA-sandbox simular to OA's / Sandboxie run safer or drop rights.

2 TOP RIGHT Tweak heuristics, depending on the risk of the source, e.g. all executables from Internet are only allowed when they are seen by a large portion of the WSA community = Anti Executable for Zero Day threats.

3. BOTTEM LEFT Extend Identity protection also to HTTP sites, add the options in red to prevent the browser from being changed by third party binaries = When using chrome, nothing can break out of its sandbox, because the sandbox program itself is protected from being changed.

4. BOTTEM RIGHT Use FireWall to warn for untrusted processes going outbound (=allow signed programs from trusted vendors, block unknown), to make it a very user friendly FW (only alarming/warning for exceptions).

Bottemline you get OA and EAM protection (only detection of EAM is better in tests) in one ultra light and user friendly application: WSA

Since PREVX4 came out of beta I have it running on her laptop. First time I have not had one single complaint about my nerdy/paranoid/insane security illness (as she calls it). So it is a win-win: I am happy I have security in place to prevent her shooting in her own foot, she is happy WSA does not interfere with her PC usage habbits

 

Added Outpost Security suite....Minus the AV/AM. Weird that it actually installed without a hitch. Love having my full firewall back.

 

thanks kees1959

 

kjdemuth good idea to have one
i am thinking to get one myself

 

I know that webroot has one but I feel a little more comfortable with a full 3rd party firewall with hips and outbound. It's running about 45k but it's fairly light. Do I really need NVT thanks even though I have the HIPS in Outpost? Whatcha think?

 

Does Outpost HIPS have process execution control?

 

Yep. Sure does.

 

Would you do any of these settings differently if you were running Sandboxie with WSA?