What is your security setup these days?

Avira Premium 10 - PC Tools Firewall Plus - Malwarebytes - Sandboxie - Shadow Defender - Virtualbox :]

 

Good Afternoon ! Firewall P.C.Tools Firewall +...Avast 5.0-Free A/V...Prevx 3.0 with Safe Online...MBAM On Demand. O/S Windows 7. ...Sincerely...Securon

 

My setup:
Fully Updated Windows XP Pro SP3 running under LUA + ACL
(NO SRP, yes... I need help setting this up)

untouched full installation of Google Chrome (I always use Incognito mode when browsing)
Avast Free (File/Behavioral/Network Shield)
Windows XP Firewall (looking for a free rule-based updated firewall)
Wondershare Time Freeze (For Virtualization of System Drive and Folder Protection)
MBRGuard (MBR protection from rootkits.)
Peerblock (added some list from iblocklist)
Winpatrol Free


Removed PrevX SafeOnline.. Sandboxie should handle keyloggers just fine.

 

Real-Time:
Kaspersky Internet Security 2010
Threatfire
Secunia PSI

On-Demand:
A-Squared Free
Malwarebytes Free
Superantispyware Free

I'm also running Winpatrol Free. Which brings up the question, given what I'm running, is there really a need for me to have Winpatrol Free? Just curious what you all think.

Thanks!

 

No need. If Kaspersky and ThreatFire run well, leave them.
Some would argue Kaspersky Internet Security on its own is enough.

Rather than running all those additional scanners, with TF and KIS running, you might just use Hitman Pro as a scan from time to time, and/or Malwarebytes. If you're worried about downloads, and if Kaspersky's detection engine is enough, you can install VirusTotal's uploader, and right-click and send a download to be scanned by many different AVs. http://www.virustotal.com/metodos.html

 

Thanks, Saraceno. That's what I thought about Winpatrol. Just wanted to make sure I was on the right track.

What do you think about my possibly running Prevx instead of Threatfire? While it's not all that bad, TF does seem to slow things down on my system just a bit. And I've heard/read some pretty good things about Prevx...

 

ThreatFire is great with a lighter AV, but Kaspersky is already providing monitoring system changes and not just checking for malicious files.

You added all of Kaspersky's processes to be excluded in ThreatFire? Check your taskmanager to see which of Kaspersky's services are running. Then in ThreatFire, go to advanced tools, custom rule settings, and add the processes as trusted.

See if that helps.


If that doesn't work, you could try the free version of prevx. It seems to work with every product. Not sure how prevx's safeonline will work if your browsers are sandboxed in kaspersky, guess it's just trial and error.

I've been using PeerBlock, see others above who use it. Disable P2P from the list, as some standard news sites are blocked (or once a site is blocked, you can right-click in the list and allow permanently, or allow for 15 mins etc), and enable the advertising and spyware lists. You can even add hacker and spam lists from iblocklist.com. Seems to work well.

 

So far so good with ThreatFire on Level 5, not many pop ups just once and they never appear again so this is GOOOOD!
And NO NOTICEABLE SLOWDOWN EITHER

 

What else you running with TF?

 

Read my sig, when i try new software i always do it with my real machine and real configuration

So it's:
A-Squared (On-Execution) - Highest settings
Panda Cloud Antivirus (I guess this one is On-Access) - Default
PCTools Firewall Plus (Realtime) - Highest Firewall settings
ThreatFire (Realtime) - Level 5

 

As regards PeerBlock....Im using the BlueTack lists exclusively. The P2P (which I disabled as Im not into file sharing networks) Spyware and Ads integrated into Peerblock are BlueTack. I added Bogon, DShield(Hackers), Hijacked. Plus Russia and China which are not BlueTack.

BlueTack Spider killed Google Mail for me, so I removed it. Also it blocked a Political News site that I frequent.

Any thoughts on Proxomitron?

 

when my mamutu expire i will buy another year or i will use threatfire

 

Mamutu is $13.50 only LOL
I though it was more expensive

 

good deal where did you find this deal?

 

May be this much amount is expensive for those who can't buy it. Like ME

 

According to Emsisoft website it's giving a 50% off discount xD
(Selected checkout on the product and yes, it's 13.50 here)

 

good deal

 

I guess Jmonge will gonna buy it.

 

i guez but i have to wait when it expired and has to get a prepaid credit card

 

i am very satisfy with mamutu man you put this boy in paranoid mode and it is as strong as any hips

 

Yeah Mamutu is good enough.

 

Well, i think $10.50 isn't really that much for an entire year xD

I have officially added ThreatFire to my setup (Yeah, i only tested it for like 2 days)

 

like me i have 2 Behavior Blockers

 

No Credit Card and No Debit Card Here. Account Balance "00"....Current Status "Unemployed"

Depending upon some Good Guys for license keys....

Anyways, Mamutu is not as good as Threatfire, because i have saw in website that it failed to block "Almanahe Jambanmu" virus..

 

Mamutu is like a PURE behavior blocker but ThreatFire seems to be a mix of Beahvior Blocker and HIPS, because it asks for every program executed and also checks Behavior