What is your security setup these days?

Avast and A-squared are running well together? Or is one on demand? I have avast pro and a-squared paid but I would have thought that both would have caused issues. If it doens't I'll give it a try. Of course I have avast pro and OA paid so....that should be enough.

 

So far perfectly, but only had A-squared real time since the recent give away, before that I had the free version on demand.
I figure with both Avast and A-squared real time, that one may catch something the other misses if somehow anything gets past DefenseWall

 

it is the other way around if some thing get passed A2Square or avast then that is when DefenSeWall will trap this malware and criple it in real time it is like jail time for malware

 

Desktop- Vista Home Premium
KIS 2010
SpywareBlaster
(thinking about adding Prevx free)
On demand-
Hitman Pro
MBAM

Laptop-
Vista Home Basic
Nod32
Online Armor Premium
Prevx free
SpywareBlaster

On demand-
Hitman Pro
MBAM

 

My Setup

XP SP3

Online Armor Premium+GDATA AV 2010+Threatfire+Key Scrambler Personal + MBAM On Demand+WOT+Add Block Plus+Roboform

They work well together .

How do you find my setup?
Is it an overkill ?

 

trying system safety monitor 2.4 paid version,it is nice hips and lock down system very easilly nice program

 

It was the best Why don't you give the free version of returnil a try (has the F-protect AV engine).

 

Realtime:
Norton Anti-Virus 2010
Online Armor 4
DefenseWall 2.56
On-Demand:

MBAM
a-squared FREE
Shadow Defender

 

Testing Avast! 5 IS.
working good except with some firewall issues.

 

what is returnil?hips?

 

It puts your computer into a virtual enviroment so no changes will take place to your pc.
Reboot and your computer is back to how it was before running returnil.
Very similar to Shadowdefender.

 

ah i see i think i tried this one before thanks tony

 

I Have Now

Realtime: a-squared Anti Malware 4.5 + Prevx 3.0
Firewall: Online Amor Premium 4.0
Others: Spywareblaster 4.2
On-demand: Spybot and Malwarebytes

 

are you running all this in one pc?and is the firewall the free version or the ++ version?

 

yes this is my security spywareblaster is a very lite program
i can also say is runs ondemand

no i have Online Armor Premium

 

cool one thing i want to mention is that if you have OA Premium you dont need spywareblaster cause OA has host protection and web protection included in the package

 

aha thnx for the advice

 

your welcome

 

Hey jmonge, I know you live and spend too much time in this part of the forums but ahem!

 

i remember returnil now
and yes System Safety Monitor is a cool program it reminds me of processguard

 

Spyware Blaster and Online Armor protection is different. OA does alert changes to the Hosts File, alerts on Active-X, and has a cookie cutter but doesn't exactly block exploits in the same manner as Sypware Blaster does. Spyware Blaster is a transparent layer of protection that is always good to have especially if you use Internet Explorer though Firefox and Opera are somewhat covered now as well.

dja2k

 

All in the sig

I dont change setups much,but I'll play along

 

thanks for explanation

 

Back to Online armor and A-squared. Both paid versions. I can't wait for avast 5 free or avast IS 5 to come out. Also a-squared 5, which adds the file scanner to it.

 

Proper backup and router with SPI firewall

XP Home machine (wife)
- DW v3 Beta (HIPS/FW)
- Keyscrambler free for IE8
- Avast beta 5 with file shield only (deselected open/read check)


Vista x64 Home Premium (Son's gaming PC)
- Windows FW - 2 way
- UAC on plus Norton UAC tool
- Pretty Good Security SRP default deny execute user space, run as basic user of all threat gate applications (seems to prevent UAC elevations)
- Avast beta 5 with file shield only (deselected open/read check)


XP Pro machine (my own slow single core machine, yet running sleek and lean
- LUA with registry tweak for basic user and run_as *.msi installers
- SRP default deny user space
- Windows Defender (enabled ask for corfirmation with unclassified software changes, advanced spynet)
* no scan, no check on program execution, no check on software and drivers, other agents enabled
* so only the light IDS protection where WD stays on his feet when running LUA (deselecting the on execution check also reduces CPU and DISK load enormously).

- Enjoying ChromePlus sandboxing while browsing
- Hitman Pro Free on demand (enabled context menu scan)