What is your security setup these days?

testing Sunbelt Personal FireWall

 

See sig!
Secure, cheerful and FREE!!!

 

danny9 is any of that stuff free? The only thing i have on my computer is outpost firewall pro 2009 with no AV yet and no spyware stuff =/ .. Someone help me quickk

 

Siggy where did you find the Common Sense app? I like free stuff and wouldnt mind trying that out and maybe Online Armor.. question about that tho is it actually free for as long as you plan on using it or is it free for a trial period ??

 

is comon sense 2.1 a real security app?never tried it do you have a link?

 

Guys for real here, Commmon Sense 2.1 is not a program

But,I will say this,you guys rely on way too much security software,and not rely on your free common sense!

 

Common sense is maybe free, but definitely rare

Note: any of these is already more than enough!

 

Hi mort.
Yes, some of it is free.
DefenseWall is paid only.
MalwareBytes and SuperAntiSpyware Are paid or free. Realtime is paid but for on-demand only it is free.
SpywareBlaster is free.
Wot and CookieWall are free.
WinPatrol has a free and paid version. Paid is lifetime.
As far as AV's, two of the better free ones are Avira and Avast.

Definitely get one of the AV's on your system
They are both very good with high detection rates.

 

Router with NAT/SPI firewall, off line external harddisk with Image (Paragon) and Data (Syncback) backuprecovery software


Shared PC Intel E5200@3,0Ghz 2GB RAM, 250MB Sata2 HD, 7600GTNvidea (made silent without fan

Real Time on XP Pro

DefenseWall (Dutch)
Winpatrol Plus (Dutch), delayed update of A2 through A2cmd /u (some agents set to autoblock, taskswatch disabled)

On demand AV/AS/AT (right click context scan)
* A2 Free (Dutch)

On demand check of startups (they all provide support through cloud based blacklists)
* Panda Anti Rootkit free
* OSAM startup manager free
* RegRun Reanimator free
* Hitman Pro 3.5


Gaming PC E6600 3,2Ghz 4GB + $GB ready boost 8800GTS, raid -0
Vista 64
- Vista FW (two way)
- Norton UAC x64 + UAC (LUA)
- MSE x64

Browser Chrome

On demand
A2 Free
Anvir taskmanager Free
Autoruns

Cheers Kees

 

kees I'm just wondering why you have so many on demand apps for scanning startup.
Say you check task manager occasionally , see something odd , and then run a startup scanner , maybe google the name of the process.

Would that not be enough ?
What would running another scanner do , even if the first found nothing ?

I'm probably missing something

 

Heres what im currently using:

Avast Pro 4.8 ( Think i might try Avira because Avast takes forever to do a thorough scan)
Outpost Firewall Pro ( tempted to try OnlineArmor )
Malware Defender
Winpatrol +
CCleaner
Firefox with AdblockPlus & WOT

Anyone have any recommendations for me ?? OnlineArmor is a firewall you have to pay for correct? And someone mentioned MD can be configured to make it virtually bulletproof... Please tell me how to do this lol i just installed it haha

 

They have a free version as well: http://www.tallemu.com/product_overview.html

 

Well you are right, but I only have DefenseWall (plus Winpatrol Plus for active X, BHO, etc), and when you set a program to trusted state it just can install (that is the way DW works).

So I like to see what is installed by other family members:
XP Box
heuristics check (Panda),
check with own blacklist (OSAM),
same plus check when in doubt info from virustotal (RegRun) and
an advanced forensic check (Hitman Pro)

The vista box just has 'standard' security. so I like to check what is installed from time to time.
Vista64 box
Anvir to find newbies, Autoruns to deal with it manually.

Regards Kees

 

So how do i make Malware Defender Bulletproof Does anyone have any recommendations for me im open to anything.. Im thinking about buying DefenseWall since it seems like everyone on here uses it.

 

hi morti is you feel like an advance user get MD now if you want some thing very easy,friendly,strong use DW i have both

 

If you are thinking of Online Armor free or paid here's a little nice to know thing for you. Online Armor for half price via: http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/online-armor/

 

Do an advanced search here in Wilders with "Malware Defender" in "search title only" You will find a lot of good recommendations for settings in MD.

 

Update ***

Malware Defender
Winpatrol
CCleaner
Firefox with WOT & Adblock +

Question about firefox for some reason for some sites i visit it seems that firefox gets extremely laggy... I check mem usage and it jumps from 50k to 150k which is kind of strange i guess? I believe my computer is clean for the most part. I will add a firewall and antivirus soon.

P:S Im on a laptop and ive noticed this in the past but never said anything so i thought i would say it now. When i click things on my desktop or anywhere really most of the time i have to click on it like 2 or 3 times for it to actually open.... or for another example if i want to close something i have to click the x 2 or 3 times just to close it... sigh. Dunno why this is. Very annoying! Anyone have any suggestions for this?

 

As far as I know to click 2 times in rapid succession to open anything is the default protocol, and sometimes a third click is required maybe because it didn't work properly the first time.

To close anything one doesn't need more than one click. On Vista you can go to Control Panel/Hardware and Sound/ mouse/ change button settings, and see what your default set up is like. You can also try using another mouse and see if it has the same behaviour.

 

Im not using a mouse =/.

 

xp2(my laptop) MalWare Defender/WinPatrol Plus/Mvps Host File/K9 WebProtection(parental control)

 

Your laptop problably has a mouse pad, or a tiny rubber sticking through your keyboard (I do not the English word for it, but I guess it is not called 'nippel mouse'). In case your are using this, you can still have a look at the mouse option in your configuration screen, and have a look at the slider of the double click speed.

Also check your Window logs, for same errors to occur frequently

 

Real-time
avast!
Norton UAC

Browsing
Opera 10
CCleaner (after browsing)

On-demand
Shadow Defender
Hitman Pro
a-squared HiJackFree

 

hey buddy how is this new avast?heard good things about it

 

Hey JM, still the old version 4.8. I'm just warming-up with anticipation for the new version.

I'll go back to sandboxing at some stage, but right now, with the limited sites I visit, the odd download, system is too fast with just the browser (Opera) and avast.

Might add prevx again later this week with avast. See how they run together.