What is your security setup these days?

thanks CIX for advise

 

Good Evening ! Real Time...G-Data 2011 Security Suite and Prevx 3.0 with Safe On Line...On Demand...Hitman Pro 3.5.5.106 newest release. O/S...Windows 7...Primary Browsers...Google Chrome and Firefox 3.6. Sincerely...Securon

 

Removed A-squared Free for the following reasons:
1) It's still not updated to version 5.
2) Hitman Pro includes Emsisoft Anti-Malware.
3) VirusTotal includes the A-squared and Ikarus engines.
4) Its right-click context menu disables right-click > Manage.
5) Uses a lot of space and became pretty much useless.

 

SETUP

Windows 98 SE
Kerio PFW 2.1.5
ClamWin
ClamSentinel

Dave

 

Almost 13 year old OS?

 

Dave there are few viruses for w98 as malware writers are not interested in the old one anymore they like the chalange of technology vista/seven etc etc i bet you are more safe than me with the 98

 

@jmonge Yeah malware gives me only an attached device not functioning properly or a runtime error.

@TheIgster Hey it't hard to break 13 year old habits!

Dave

 

it is way faster i bet

 

Yeah, when I load XP, I FORBID XP to run more than 5 services! An easy way to free up RAM the right way! So safe one has nearly to email a malware writer and ask for his junkware to install it manually.

Dave

 

cool

 

OS

Win 7 Ultimate 32-bit

Real-Time

Defensewall 3.02
Prevx 3.0.5 w/ Safeonline (Paid)
Sandboxie 3.45 (Paid)
Panda Cloud 1.1 Free (Testing)

On-Demand

Hitman Pro 3.5.6 (Paid)
MBAM Free 1.46

Imaging

Macrium Reflect Free

 

Really liking this Outpost Firewall Pro in my setup after a few days. Everything is running pretty darn smooth and no slow downs.

Keyscrambler Premium also doing a good job without issue.

Tried Comodo's leaktest with OFP and it got a score of 330 out of 340...very nice.

Has anyone compared Comodo Firewall with D+ against OFP? I was thinking about trying CF just for the heck of it for a few days as well, but I'm not sure if I want to screw around with this setup as it seems to be working very well.

 

Back to my old setup..
Avast 5 Free - File and Network Shields
SSM 2.4
Google Chrome
2Wire Router/Hardware Firewall

Trying to think if there's anything else I should add.. any suggestions?
(Besides sandboxie or defensewall )

 

Made a slight change. Moved MBAM back to real-time...

Linksys router.
On Access
Online Armor free (with HIPS activated and internet-facing programs configured to Run Safer).
avast! free (with all shields running and heuristics sensitivity on high).
MBAM (with website blocking enabled)
On Demand
Hitman Pro
Regular Acronis True Image backups.

Considering KeyScrambler Personal or Pro.

 

Added PCTFWP and really liking it now, running it maxed. I just spam allow when running something I trust, and now it recognizes common software, awesome. ^^

Planning to add avast! Free today with only Network shield as inspired by Konata.

Since my mobo is *** Prevx and CIS won't work for now. Don't want to or have the energy to go into nerdy details on that and it's not that interesting either for most ppl.

 

OK, so I did some testing with Outpost Pro Firewall and it failed a number of tests, so I'm giving Comodo a try. Installed the firewall only with Proactive Defense, so D+ as well as the sandbox up and going.

A few growing pains off the top, especially with Keyscrambler Premium that Comodo insisted on running in the sandbox. With KP running, my keyboard was completely disabled with Comodo running it in the sandbox. I finally got it into trusted programs and out of the sandbox and we're good now. Comodo also insisted on running my printer software in the sandbox as well, which I had to get out of there too.

I have firewall and proactive defense in training mode currently and sandbox disabled (to avoid any issues like above while it is learning), so hopefully in a day or so we should be good to go with some testing with Comodo to see how it does.

Edit: Looks like Comodo can take care of any keylogger issues that I might have, so I have also removed Keyscrambler Premium. Not really needed anymore from what I can see.

 

Do you've the same result against keyloggers with the Internet Security profile as well or are you referring to even running the sandbox alone?


I got a lot of software going into the sandbox too, but not software which is affected by the restrictions luckily. Hopefully the new, huge cloud database will be released sooner than later.

 

Completely changed the setup on my main machine after solving the Antivir update issue.
Antivir Personal 10 + AVG LinkScanner + Hitman Pro

 

Well, from what I can tell, I can outright kill the keyloggers with Comodo and don't really require the use of something like Keyscrambler Premium. Guess that was my point. Comodo sees that an app is trying to access the KB or install a hook and asks me what I want to do, so I can then shut it down.

 

Okay, you didn't understand my message correct, but basically you're using D+ with the Proactive Security profile and that works for you.


I'll make it into 2 numbered questions;

1. What's the result with Internet Security profile instead?


2. What if you run only the sandbox and not D+, nor the FW?

 

Platform with In-Built Security

1. Windows 7 Ultimate
2. Limited User Account with D.E.P
3. AppLocker & SEHOP

Anti-Virus Programs

1. Panda Cloud Pro
2. Hitman Pro 3.5.6 Build 105

On-Demand Security Programs

1. SandBoxIE 3.442
2. Shadow Defender

RollBack Application

1. Comodo Time Machine


Last but not least i am also using Non-Common Sense to protect my HOST Machine !!

 

I changed my security setup because Avast couldn't disinfect files. My laptop infected with Sality and Fujack worm and Avast and even Avira wanted to delete all my .exe file which they was system files and my applications setup files.

Kapersky and Bitdefender helped me and I'm so happy to have my files back in normal mode.

Realtime Protection:
Kaspersky Internet Security
SandBoxie 3.442

On demand:
Malwarebytes Antimalware free
SuperAntiSpyware Free
Avira Personal (Guard not installed)

OS:
Windows 7 HP 64bit(DEP on)

 

1 - Don't know. I may get a chance to do some testing this weekend and see, but for now, I've got it set to Proactive Security and that is performing well.

2 - Again, don't know, but one of the main reasons why I installed Comodo is for the firewall, so I don't see a point in disabling it.

Basically, installed and running the way it is, I have firewall protection, along with HIPS and that is what I was looking for. The sandbox is an added feature, although I'm still on the fence about it, as it may turn out to be more of a pain than something I would use often or want to deal with.

 

Changed it up again. I loaded the AV portion of CIS now as well and uninstalled NOD32 for now. We'll see how the whole CIS suite works in some tests this weekend.

And I don't want to alarm anyone, but I'm getting a little worried. jmonge hasn't posted in this thread for 2 days now. We're going to have to send out a search party soon.

 

i am here man
well as you see PE Guard settles me downit is a keeper boy