What is your security setup these days?

Reply to Ms 321

All anti-spyware, except P-Patrol, will catch something different many times. P-P happens to be software I've subscribed to, but don't run its active protection. I'm a nut on security, having had to reformat many times, and I will not take any chances software wise. I've plenty of ram, processor, a potent m-board and space.

Thnx anyway.

 

Cool! No one can really tell you what you can and can't run on your system, so good luck there. If you ever change your mind though, a good HIPS program like Online Armor can help out and you wouldn't have to run all that active. Also Kaspersky with its extended database can help out more. I hardly ever get any spyware on my system and you can check out post #310 to see my setup, it doesn't use a lot of resources and I am pretty safe.

dja2k

 

hi all, my combination so far the most stable on my system.
some app. are very old .

FIREWALL

router-dlink 604
packet filter- CHX-I
outbound control-jetico

ANTIVIRUS

NOD32
KASPECSKY V5( on-demand scan)

ANTIMALWARE

EWIDO( on-demand scan)

ANTISPYWARE

SUPERANTISPYWARE (FREE)
AROVAX (FREE)

ANTITROJAN

UNHACKME V3

REGISTRY DEFENSE

REGRUN SECURITY SUITE V3.9
REGDEFEND (FREE LIMITED)
MJ WATCHER (FREE )

HIPS/IPS

CYBERHAWK BETA V4
PG V3.15
GHOST SECURITY SUITE V1.10 BETA (LIMITED FREE)

HOSTS DEFENSE

HOSTMAN V2.1

FILE INTERGITY

SENTINEL V2.0

ANTIWORM

SCRIPT SENTRY


REALTIME PROTECTION SETTING


ROUTER- STATEFUL INSPECTION 'OFF' DUE TO RADIO STREAMING PROBLEM.
CHX-I-USE AS STATEFUL INSPECTION.
JETICO-USE FOR OUTBOUND PROTECTION AND PROCESS ATTACK NOT ALERT BY GSS OR PG OR CH(HIDDEN WINDOW).

CYBERHAWK-PROCESS INJECTION VERY VERY SILENT,AND VERY FAST ON ALERT!

NOD 32- AMON,IMON,DMON (EMON 'OFF' AS NOT USING ANY E-MAIL CLIENT)

GHOST SECURITY SUITE:
APPDEFEND-WITH APP START AND APP EXECUTION 'OFF',(FIND IT GUI SLOWER THAN PG)

REGDEFEND- DISABLE MONITOR STARTUP

MJ WATCHER- BACKUP REGDEFEND WHEN REGDEFEND CAN'T BLOCK AS A FREE LIMITED VERSION.

REGRUN SECURITY SUITE-MONITOR STARTUP,SHUTDOWN,SCRIPT

PG- GLOBAL PROTECTION 'OFF'( DISLIKE THE AUTO BLOCK FUNCTION), APP STARTUP AND APP EXECUTION 'ON'. MANLY ACT AS A PROCESS PROTECTION AGAINST TERMINATING(SECURE MESSAGE HANDLING)

HOSTMAN

BROSWERS-
1ST OPERA-SECURE AND FAST BUT LACK SUPPORT LIKE ROBOFORM,ETC.
2ND FIREFOX-NOSCRIPT,SPOOFSTICK,NETWORK TWEAK.
LAST IE- ONLY FOR ONLINE STREAMING OR WHEN EVERTHING ELSE FAIL TO WORK ON OPERA AND FIREFOX.

SCRIPTSENTRY-CHECK ON STARTUP

SETINEL-CHECK ON SHUTDOWN

 

Real Time
Avast Antivrus
Netveda Safety.Net Firewall free
Web Washer Classic by Cyberguard
Process Guard
Spyware Blaster & Guard
Star Tech Router-hardware firewall
Windows Defender
On Demand
CWShredder
MRU Blaster
Ad-Ware SE Personal
Spybot S&D
Hitware Pop Up Killer Light

 

RealTime:

• ViruScape
• OnlineArmor Beta
• ProcessGuard Full
• SUPERAntiSpyware
• SpyBlocker Pro
• BOClean
• SpywareBlaster

Demand:

• Ad-Aware SE Pro
• A-Squared

I have a router but I am currently once again deciding on a firewall.

 

Realtime:

Router
Zonealarm (free)
Antivir (free)
SuperAntiSpyware
BoClean
Security Task Manager
HostsMan
Spywareblaster
Spywareshooter
IE-Spyad

On demand:

Pestpatrol

 

Well, after reading through the many pages of this thread I see I am a minimalist when it comes to security applications as opposed to many of you, at the moment I am only using the Windows XP SP2 Firewall and KAV 5.0.527 with IE6 as my primary browser. Although I have tried and experimented with many different security applications over the years I find this basic setup works well for me, FW+AV, from time to time I come across a minor annoyance while surfing which is easily solved and corrected, sometimes I may have to download a program to help with detection and removal. But for the most part, I have really scaled down my use of 3rd party software and it seems to have greatly enhanced my own computing experience.

In the future, I plan on upgrading to KISS 6.0, I feel top of the line suites are the wave of the future and will eliminate the conflicts and problems associated with multiple 3rd party security applications running in real time. But my hat is off to all of you guru's out there who make it happen on your systems. I'm blown away by some of the security setups some of you have running on your boxes, impressive to say the least. Good luck.

 

mouseclick: If you just used an alternate browser, such as Firefox or Opera, along with an ad-blocker and a non-Microsoft email client, you'd probably be pretty well set. It would probably save you the step of having to download additional programs for detection and removal (not good that you ever have to). Not to mention that many just like the software better

 

Notok, on very rare occasion I have had to download adaware or SS&D, IE6 is locked down, and I don't surf the web like I use to, my use of email is minimal also, I guess the internet thrill is gone for me, although I have tried other browsers, I prefer IE. Have a great day! and happy computing.

 

Hi Mouseclick, I also prefer minimalistic approach, so I use only IE and Firewall. But I would like to ask, how do you monitor Windows Firewall? I wanted to use it, but I do not like the idea, that I even do not know, if WF is running or not, since there is no icon in systray. My friend sent me on program, which monitors WF, but that program takes more RAM than WF itsef, so I abandon that idea, although WF is a great choise for blocking inbound and in fact it is a free.

 

Give me your opinion for a good(excellent ) protection for a computer(pentium III 750mhz with 512mb of ram) without it to be a turtle after.This is a laptop and without router.
Thanks

 

for a light AV, i would choose nod32 or f-prot. and for a firewall, i would go with looknstop (if u want app filtering), or ghostwall or chx-i (both are just packet filtering).

 

update:

added
removed

Resident:

nod32
looknstop
regrun gold
proxomitron
Online Armor
ewido anti-malware 4.0 beta
HostsMan (with MVPS Hosts)

On-Demand:

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Other Security / System Hardening:

nLite'd Windows XP (with service tweaking based on TweakHound's guide)
RyanVM's Windows XP Post-SP2 Update Pack
BugOff
Harden-it
Samurai HIPS
Windows Worms Doors Cleaner
xp-antispy
process explorer
firefox extensions: javascript options, noscript, permit cookies, and spoofstick

 

Resident:

NOD32
LooknStop
ProcessGuard Full 3.150
RegDefend Full
Ad Muncher
SnoopFree
Script Defender

On Demand:

Ewido

Browsing: Opera 8.54 and ShadowUser Pro 2.5

 

Windows XP Home SP2 (all updates installed)
Linksys Router RT31P2 (hardware firewall)
Outpost Pro Firewall 3.51.748.6419 (462) (real-time spyware protection enabled)
Harden-It 1.2
Windows Worms Doors Cleaner 1.4.1

Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 5.0.527 (extended database enabled)
UnHackMe 3.1 beta

DiamondCS ProcessGuard 3.3 beta 2
DiamondCS WormGuard 3
RegDefend 2.001 (with revised custom Ghost Group from Tony Klein)
WinPatrol Plus 9.8.1.0

SpyBot Search & Destroy 1.4 (Immunize enabled)
SpywareBlaster 3.5.1 (& Custom Blocking List: http://koti.mbnet.fi/pattaya1/swb3.htm 3/28/06)
MVPS Hosts File (4/20/06)(Hoster 2.0)
IE-SPYAD (4/23/06)(ZonedOut 2.2)

FraudEliminator 2.41 anti-phishing toolbar (for IE6)
C/Cleaner 1.28.277
MRU-Blaster 1.5
FirstDefense-ISR 1.05 Build 166

Resident On Demand Scanners
Ad-Aware SE Personal 1.06
A-squared scanner 1.6.5
Ewido Micro
Mischel TrojanHunter 4.5
Kephyr Bazooka 1.13.03
Trend Micro CWShredder Version 2.19
F-Secure Blacklight Rootkit Elimination 2.2.1035
Sentinel 2.1.0
Sysinternals RootkitRevealer 1.7
HijackThis 1.99.1
DllCompare
SUPERAntispyware 3.1.1010

Online Scanners
CounterSpy spyware scan
Help2Go Detective, HijackThis log file analysis (HijackThis Log Analyzers)
Jotti's malware scan
McAfee online virus scan
X-Clean Micro (Facetime.com) spyware scanning

 

NOD32 is most likely the lightest AV you can get, it takes about 20 MB RAM.
Outpost Firewall Pro takes about 2-10 MB RAM (with logging and AS disabled).
If you use an alternative browser (like FF or O), you do not need additional protection.

 

"My Updated Security List"

ACTIVE
Kaskersky Antivirus 2006 Tech Release 6.0.0.299
-File, Web, Mail Antivirus Modules
-Proactive Module (Only Registry & Office Guard Enabled)

Outpost Firewall Pro 3.51.748.6419 (462)
-All Plug-Ins Enabled

Online Armor Beta 1.1.0.694
-All Enabled

RegRun Gold 4.50
-Security Level Ultra High
-All Extra Options Enabled

HARDEING
Harden-It 1.2
Samurai 2.6
Bugoff 1.10
Windows Worm Door Cleaner
XP-Antispy
Spyware Blaster 1.5.1 Immunized
Spybot 1.4 Immunized
IE-Spyads
HOSTS Secure (MVPS Host File)
Autopatcher (Dec05-Apr06)

BROWSERS
Firefox 1.5.0.2
Opera 9 Beta 1
Maxthon 1.5.2
IE 7 Beta 2

ON DEMAND
Nod32 2.51.26
Ewido 3.5
SuperAntispyware
Ad-Aware SE 1.06r1
Spybot 1.4

dja2k

 

Less is more?

I am leaning heavily on my combination of three on realtime;

-Outpost FW
-Defensewall Sandbox HIPS
-Free Antivir7

Installed free CCleaner and it deleted 0.5 Gig and the PC still works fine.

Next week i buy a D-link router.

Best Regards

 

Actually KAV 2006 is lighter than Nod32 in Ram usage. Futhermore, adding KIS 2006 to replace Outpost (not really comparing pertection of Outpost vs Anti-hacker) will give even less Ram usage. For the time being, I thought that built 299 for both KIS and KAV 2006 were pretty stable. You can always remove the proactive modules and all others that aren't needed in both KAV and KIS 2006.

dja2k

 

Hi everybody,

New on this forum, I have, as Rivalen, the feeling that less is more

I used to have only Viguard Pro (still on my family computer) with Jetico. It is a brilliant product. But I am very curious and impressed by this "new" alertless approach taken by progs like BZ, Defensewall and similar products.

Resident:

BufferZone Beta
Jetico personal firewall

On-Demand:
AntiVir 7 personal
Ad-aware
Spybot

Best Regards

 

but what about CPU usage? the poster said he had a 750MHz cpu.

 

Windows XP SP2 (auto updates disabled) + Autopatcher December 2005 Full

hardening tools:
Safe XP
xp-AntiSpy
xpy
Harden-It
Secure-It
Windows Worms Doors Cleaner

realtime:
Arovax Shield
Defensewall HIPS
Defenceplus
Look 'n' Stop
ProcessGuard
Router

on demand:
Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (Acronis True Image)
Active Ports
StartUp Organizer

23 processes total

 

Yes thats true my cpu only has 750mhz.
I have already installed the NOD32 and it seems that i dont have any antivirus, he is very light in cpu usage it seems, when i had panda i had spikes at the highest of cpu usage now it keeps around 10 and 20%.
I also have installed BOclean,PG(full),regdefend free version, spysweeper, wormguard, spywareblaster,pre-empt(pivx) and computer securitytol
I think i have a good protection

on-demand
TH(trial)
ewido
a-squared
spybot
adware

 

That is true WSFuser, Nod32 on a P3 is better.

Don't know about all that running active on a P3 750 mhz computer, but is it all running smoothly?

dja2k