What is your security setup these days?

i guez,the cool thing about is the run safer LUA like

 

Ciao,

yes i like my new light set up but i have some doubts... when (somehow) on my computer keylogger will start, then does DW stops recording keystrokes? (i dont talk now about hips protection - only DW mechanizm)

Next q: What is the difference when i run Windows with LUA and Windows without LUA but with DW on?

Thanks

 

NAT Router

Resident:
OA
Avira Free
LinkScanner Pro

Tiny Watcher on Startup

On Demand:
MBAM, SAS

Browsing:
Firefox w/NoScript
SandBoxie

Spyware Blaster

 

Do you have LinkScanner addon enabled in Firefox? If yes, I think you should be able to disable it and still have the background protection, protecting you. It would turn Firefox browsing faster. Even if you see no gree, yellow or red ratings, you still are protected, as it works in the background, unlike the Lite version.

I know you didn't ask, but, I thought, heck, why not give a suggestion. lol

It is the way it protects Opera, as well. By working in the background.

Regards

 

m00nbl00d, thanks for the suggestion.
I might try that, but honestly, I haven't experienced any noticeable slow-down in my browsing since implementing LinkScanner. This combo is running very smoothly for me.
Thanks again.

 

Resident:
ThreatFire
Sandboxie (all browsing)
Vista Firewall Control

Other:
A-Squared Free (right-click scan enabled for all downloads)
A-Squared Hijackfree (kill tasks/check startup etc)
Opera 10 (browsing)

Testing:
Shadow Defender (programs/installations)

Very light setup!

 

Updated Jan 13, 2009

Vista Home Premium SP1 (UAC OFF\WD OFF)

Resident
Online Armor AV+ v3.1.0.12 Public Beta (Paid)
SUPERAntispyware 4.25.1006 Pre-Release (Paid)
Sandboxie 3.34 (Paid)
Avira Antivir Personal v8

On-Demand
Shadow Defender 1.1.0.275
VMWare Workstation 6.51 (XP SP3 Pro & Windows 7 Beta)

Other
Spybot Search & Destroy (Immunized)
Spyware Blaster (Immunized)
Vista Services Optimizer (Automatic TuneUp)

dja2k

 

NEW SETUP:

Real-Time:

- Avira PE Premium
- Comodo Internet Security Suite (AV Disabled)
- Mamutu ---> (Might uninstall, depending how much I like CIS)
- Rollback Rx

On-Demand:

- SAS
- MBAM
- SpywareBlaster
- SandboxIE

 

Tring out a new combo.................
Wonder how long this one will last............

 

LoneWolf, if you do find a-squared too heavy with your other programs, just use the free version as a right-click on-demand scanner. I still manually update it each day.

 

I've changed mine so...

Nat Router with SP1 firewall
updated Vista with UAC
Comodo
Avira PE
Superantispyware paid
Returnil

 

After a holiday period and lot's of time because all other family members where hit with influenza, temperature is rising to zero Celcius again and I have to settle on a new setup.

Having so many choices, I settled for maximising license use

Home situation

General measures

A) Image backup (Paragon)/Data backaup (Synchback free) + external (off line harddisk)
B) Router with SPI FW properly configured, https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?p=1370231#post1370231

Home PC XP Pro SP3 (E5200@3,06Ghz 2 GB Ram)
- running admin
- Malware Defender : using as firewall + shutdown + low level access protection
- ThreatFire with some extra registry + file access custom rules
- GeSWall, normally configured (plus Iron added) and network + mail directory/wab set to confidential

Game PC Vista 64 Bits SP1 (E6450@3,2Ghz 4 GB Ram)
- running admin with UAC and Norton's UAC Tool
- Ms Defender (64 bits) + Avira V9 beta (check at write only, hueristics HIGH, all modules shut down except the free one)


For my Mom behind a Nat/Router
Mother's PC (Athlon 3700+, 1,5 GB Ram)
- XP Home SP3
- Ms Firewall XP default for inbound
- DefenseWall 2.56 2.46, password protected
- on demand A2 Malware v 4 (Dutch)

Unused lisences (for the time being)
a) PRSC Vista 64 bits
b) A2 Malware V4
c) Malware Defender

 

Link is broken

You mean DefenseWall version 2.46?

You can feel secure with all this security tools

 

New link https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?p=1370231#post1370231

Yes

 

Reinstalled Windows Home Server to a VM for backup of the home network and test the connector on Windows 7...working! MS says WHS cannot be virtualized, but it only took a few minutes to figure out how to do this. Instead of me laying it all out, here is a fine tutorial(techrepublic) if anyone is interested. To test WHS you can join Windows Connect and obtain WHS with an evaluation key.

Its a great way to protect your data, but I'm not adding anything to protect WHS I'm relying on network and server configuration behind a UTM.

 

Managed to get ThreatFire go nuts when testing with some latest malware, from one point it did seem to see its own quarantaine actions as an attack, killing one process after another, until it had reached processes which where not quarantained (essential system processes).
Then it went into constant re-boot in an effort to get rid of the rootkit it was fighting. I tried to get in with Bart Rescue CD to save the malware sample, but the known origin trace was completely erased by ThreatFire.

When going through directories with Bart PE, I got characters which resembled some far east non-western typograh (looked like Thai characters). From the first TF pop-up '"what happened" I could see that it had written DLL's to the Windows directory.

NB Now using MalwareDefener as application monitor again (I should not have used it as simple firewall only, and I should not have marked the file trusted for GW )

Cheers

Kees

 

Yeah the version with the guard is off now and free back on (did a rollback)
Weird, ran ok for a couple days then blocked my internet connection, shut down the guard and was back up. Turned the guard back on and it was fine.
Don't really need it anyway,was just testing.

 

Bitdefender Total Security 2009

 

Security software:

- Prevx Edge

on Windows XP Home SP 3 with Windows Firewall behind router firewall.

Not a layerd approach like recommended, but very light.

On all 3 PCs (of my parents and me) we did not experience any infection attempts in recent years. I guess, Prevx 2 or Avira AntiVir Premium Edition (or some other products I've tried) would have told us... But there has been no issue. All is running quick and stable. So the propability to get infected with malware that than Prevx Edge wouldn't catch is very low.

 

LoneWolf, I think you have a very robust, effective and light security setup and I should be using about the same shortly (I am now experimenting with something similar on FD-ISR alternate snapshots and really like the feel of it so far).

But I would be curious to know why you keep using a firewall (not questioning the L 'n' S great value here, as it was also my prefered fw right after 8Signs) when using MalwareDefender v2.x.
Here, behind a router, I would only be using MD and DefenseWall (with SBIE and/or Shadow Defender for only occasion when going to crawl in dark water). And I will probably have a hard choice to make with DW's next releases as it should also include network protection...

To round my current setup, I also keep some system and data backups on my 2nd internal & USB external hard drives (IFW/ShadowProtect and SyncBack), to mostly cover eventual hardware failures. I am also running Proxomitron with K-Meleon and Opera browsers and have some on-demand malware scanners at hand, even if I often don't have much use for them now.

 

Old habits maybe. Took me a while to get used to/the hang of no AV so the no FW thing is basicly the same to adjust to. I'm sure I'd be fine with xp firewall on along with my hardware firewall Alphashield, just not used to being without a FW such as L'n'S. Maybe xiaolin will take the suggestion of Muchinga and make MD a full featured firewall.
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1386317&postcount=91
Either way L'n'S is light enough and takes care of what a true pure fw should.

 

It makes sens. About implementing a full featured fw in MD, mightbe a good idea, but I would hope to have it as an optional setting.
Thanks for replying LoneWolf.

 

i added EdgeGuard™ Solo it works good with DefenseWall and Mamutu

 

Realtime:
Router NAT,
Online Armor Premium v3.1.0.14 (beta),
DefenseWall 2.46,
Avira AntiVir Personal.

On-demand:
A-squared Free.


I really like this setup, light and strong this is what i looking for and i think at least i found it ^^
Oh and i can't imagine that i could drop my AV like someone of you, I think that it is a matter of habit

 

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