What is your security setup these days?

lol, yeah Lonewolf, I had a stopwatch going and you broke the generous amount of time I was giving you. It plain stinks.

 

Actually I installed it last night.
Just posted that I did so.
Then decided to 86 it.

 

Added Malware Defender..........This one will stay.

 

Are you sure now?

 

I'll let you know in half an hour.

Yeah......I'm sure

 

Been running with this setup a couple months:
Avira Antivir Premium
Look N' Stop 2.06
Mamutu IDS

Sometimes just for thrills I go with:
Avira Premium Security Suite and Mamutu IDS..and Add Muncher always

Either way works great...

 

Windows XP SP4 on AMD Phenom X3 3GB RAM

Deep Freeze (on C drive)
Returnil (on-demand in other drives)
HOSTS file
SpywareBlaster
Comodo Internet Security
Sandboxie
Winpatrol PLUS
MBAM and SAS
HijackThis
Proxomitron
Flock 2 (w/ various FF add-ons)
Google Chrome
Auslogics BoostSpeed
CCleaner


I installed K9 Web Protection on my son's PC and WinDirStat in case K9's protection slipped through.
WinDirStat lets me know if he's been looking through porn and other nasty things in the web.

 

XP has SP4?

 

Yep we are there...

 

Can you perhaps give me a link?
I can't find any information about SP4 being out.

 

Decided to give system safety monitor another run to see how its progressing.
At the moment,

System Safety Monitor
Sandboxie
Anvir Task Manager
Avira Antivir Personal for on demand scanning

 

Current setup:

Vista x64
Avira Free
Defender
Windows Firewall

That's it. And I'm hoping it stays that way for a while.....

 

As many of you know i regularly alternate various combinations and pit them against my malware samples and expecially the newest crud recently released when i capture them.

ATM, or more specifically this week i'm running MBAM + SAS for search & destroy detail while keeping MAMUTU + Real-Time Defender monitoring movements or any forced approaches in their attempts to breach these HIPS/Behavoral Blockers.

Satisfaction is the results so far. No penetrations yet. But i always watch in anticipation if something retooled in malware might succeed to get a foothold.

MAMUTU + THREATFIRE tandemed with HIPS is a razor wire obstacle that makes any efforts to that end virtually useless so far.

EASTER

 

I hereby correct myself, Its not for XP. I had a mindburp...

 

Bitdefender INTERNET SECURITY
really like the interface and browsing speed acceptable.

 

Realtime

-Avast ! AV Home 4.8
- CIS

On demand

- AVG-AS
- SAS
- MBAM
- Ad-Aware 2008

Others

- Spywareblaster

- CCleaner

(All free)

 

Still running...


Mamutu and GESWall.

 

mamutu is a World-Class Behavioral Blocker IMHO with the newest Threatfire hot on it;s heels. They just need to add a DENY option for convenience sake like MAMUTU as far as i see it in usefulness with no wasted time digging up a good QUARANTINE to restore.

My opinion group. Thnxs

EASTER

 

Behind router,

XP Pro SP3 E5200@3,0 Ghz 2GB
- Power user with some extra SRP (LUA internet facing, blocked temp/shared directories)
- Threatfire with custom rules (outbound, registry HKCU, old dos progs, execution outside own directory of internet facing programs)
- Chromium (and its sandboxed rendering engine)

That's it

 

DriveSentry(block on write files and registries)
Antilogger

 

[Active]
D link Router SPI Firewall
Sandboxie
USB Disk Security

[On Demand]
Shadow Defender
MBAM
Dr Web Cure It
Avz
Roboform
SuperAntispyware

[Browser]
Firefox 3 + Noscript + CookieSafe + Adblocker Plus

[Etc]
Some service and security tweaks

In my pc this setup is very ligth i really like it .Guys in your opinion this setup is good? I am user who was never infected for 3 years and going so i am exploring other security setups who antivirus is not present

 

LOl you dont even have an antivirus. That's why it's light.

 

I haven't changed my setup is ages, i just have avast home edition, comodo firewall and threatfire. thats its not including the firewall of the rounter.

 

DarkStalker is using sandboxie, which means, no virus can bust out while he is surfing the web, using msn, downloading files. Everything is trapped, contained, and nothing is left on his system after the sandbox is emptied.

He also has Shadow Defender, which he can turn on anytime he wants, say if his friend wants to insert a USB stick, and run a couple of programs on his system. Viruses can be installed, screw up the system, but after a reboot, it's all gone.

He also has the two best anti-spyware programs, MBAM and Supernantispyware, and on-demand anti-virus, with Dr-Web's Cureit, which he can use to scan a particular file he wants to keep (the rest of his files are going to get annihilated with either sandboxie or Shadow Defender).

Also is running the AVZ tool, which can also do an on-demand scan on a file/folder and will search out any rootkit or keylogger running in no time.

Not to mention his Firefox browser is running Noscript.


Personally, with all of these tools using virtually no resources, I think it's a top set-up.

 

On Vista HP:

Resident:
Dynex Router
PC Tools Firewall Plus
Norton Antivirus 2009 (trying this one out)
Mamutu
SuperAntiSpyware
Winpatrol Plus
Spywareblaster

On-demand scanning:
Spybot S&D
Malwarebyte's Anti-malware