What is your security setup these days?

Testing Avira v10 on Win7 32bit for the first time

 

where did you download that? let us know your experience when you used it

 

SRP, Avira, and Softperfect Firewall, with Opera as my browser and Macrium Reflect for backup. A few registry tweaks (most notably disabling autorun) and that's it.

 

Use SRP to restrict to basic user or deny all other drive letters that might be used for USB devices. Use Panda USB Vaccine to stop the creation of autoruns on any/all drives.

SoftPerfect, I have used it a lot in the past. Only downfall to it IMO is that when in rules wizard mode, and it waits for you to create the rule, all network activity is blocked. I like it better when only traffic for that specific rule is blocked but other rules are still allowed. You can also make your own rules via .xml faster than you can with the UI if you understand it.

Don't forget as well that when you use the Basic User option with SRP in XP, of course you are admin, but your "user" who is an admin is the owner if many things. Going through the file system and registry to remove your "user" ownership and instead granting it to the "group" admins is a great thing. A bit of a pain, but if "you" are the owner, and "you" start something as a user, "you" still have full rights to those objects.

There is a registry tweak to make all new items owned by the "group" admins, but I never found it to work that well for some reason.

Sul.

 

New x64 Setup: March 11, 2010 - Updated , Added , Removed

Windows 7 Professional x64 (UAC:OFF, WD: OFF, FW: OFF, DEP: ON)

Network

• Two Linksys Routers (DD-WRT Firmware) in WDS Mode
• WEP 128-Bit Encryption
• Wireless MAC Filtering Enabled
• SPI Firewall Enabled

Resident

• Online Armor ++ 4.0.0.33 Beta (Paid)
• Sandboxie 3.45.01 Beta (Paid)
• Shadow Defender 1.1.0.325 (Paid)

On-Demand

• Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.44
• VirusTotal Uploader 2.0
• Active@ Disk Image 3.3.4 (Paid)
• VMWare Workstation 7 (Paid)

Browser, Immunization, Tweaks

• Firefox 3.6 (Ad-Block Plus, Better Privacy, TACO, WOT, ShowIP, TrackMeNot, Ghostery)
• KeyScrambler Personal 2.6.0.0 (IE & FF)
• RoboForm Pro 6.9.99 (IE & FF)
• Malware Patrol's Block List (via Hosts File)
• Bluetack Blocklists (Level 1,2,3 for P2P)
• Spybot Search & Destroy 1.6.2 (Full Immunization w/o Global Hooks)
• Spyware Blaster 4.2 (All Protection Enabled + Customblocking.txt)
• Vista Services Optimizer 1.2 Build 108 (Manual Tuneup)
• Ultimate Windows Tweaker 2.1 (Customized)
• SpeedGuide.net Vista TcpIp Patch 1.5
• Panda Research USB Vacine 1.0.1.4 (Computer Vaccinated)

dja2k

 

You have to log on their BETA forum here after that the Admins will select you to be their product's BETA tester

 

admin will select you? so meaning you can share that to us?

 

i love this combo is very lite and powerfull i have it in my slow pc and it runs very smooth and in my sons and wife pc i use defensewall+prevx combo never been infected good job ilya and joe from prevx also RuberDucky good job man hats off and kudos to this developers and thank you for protecting my pcs and our privacy

 

Seriously!? This sounds like advertising to me ....Glad you found your perfect combo!

dja2k

 

i removed prevx+mbam cause i have an known infected computer around my place and mbam+prevx never detected my own virus sample but avast detects it and some other scanners

 

DW is very solid. Being using it almost a year now.

 

NIS2010 + PrevX resident, MBAM on demand. Good level of detection for our needs. Easy to use. Happy.

 

@d111 cool you like DW and yes indeed it is powerfull

 

Real-time
Sandboxie
Microsoft Security Essentials

On-demand
Hitman Pro
VirusTotal Uploader
a-squared HiJackFree

 

hoe is microsoft antivirus with sandboxie cause it didnt work with defensewall when i tried it?

 

Runs like a dream chief. System as light as a feather.

 

No firewall! *gasp* How barbaric! :0

 

Windows firewall in vista and 7 can be configured with advanced settings. Otherwise windows 7 firewall control works well.

With a-squared hijackfree, you can view connections in real-time, just like a firewall, but even better, you can kill processes (and those making connections) and quarantine them if necessary.

Some people are using advanced firewalls, answering many prompts a day, but ask them what they've blocked, and they might say they have only blocked windows media player from connecting and adobe from updating. If you've blocked a million programs, what on earth are you installing I say? Don't get me wrong, I see the benefit in firewalls, but I've monitored my system, use sandboxie, nothing's happening. lol

Personally, I don't mind windows media player and adobe updating. Secunia usually gets me to update it anyway.

 

On old XP SP3 laptop with only 512mb RAM and 1.2ghz processor:

KIS2010 with highest scan settings but scans only new and changed and only then on execution. Browsers and P2P set to Safe Run (sandbox)

On Vista Home Premium laptop with 2GB RAM and 1.8ghz processor:

Vipre Premium (Twitter give away) with Firewall in learning mode and Zemana AL (Softpedia give away). Not bad for free.

On Vista Home Premium laptop with 4GB RAM and 2.5 ghz processor:

OA++ and Sandboxie

All 32 bit machines and running fine and lite for now. The Zemana/Vipre combo is new but giving it a go. MD, Prevx and A2 licences currently unused. IMO the OA++ and Sandboxie combo is just about unbeatable but sticking with the others for now. Anyway it gives me more to play with!

Oh yeah and all run Firefox with Adblock Plus and Better Privacy among others and all have MBAM as a 2nd opinion scanner.

Cheers

 

Hey thats pretty good OA++ and sandboxie. I never thought of that one. OA++ and geswall free would kinda be similar right? That wouldn't be bad either.

 

The original poster for this thread dja2k among others use OA and SBIE. I guess (no pun intended) Geswall free would work just as well as long as its only browsers you want to protect. I use SBIE for browsers, P2P, Media Players, removable media/drives, e-mail clients and more!

Cheers

 

i just formatted my xp pc and i am just installing MD and Prevx 3 it is running smooth

 

Of course it is,you just reformatted it

As much as you change security setups,your registry gets so much junk and leftovers,it's no wonder you have to reformat

 

not really i clean my registry manually

 

so far i didnt get any pop ups from MD i put it in learning mode for about 1 hour