What is your security setup these days?

Celeron 2 Ghz 2GB Ram

Avast Free 5 All Shields Up

Macrium Reflect


Lappy Dual Core

Avast Free 5 All Shields Up

Acronis True Image

 

Added dyndns and Comodo Time machine. I'm thinking if CTM messes up my laptop HD then I can get a new 7800 rpm 500 gb WD. Of course thats what I'm going to tell my wife.

 

Added SpywareBlaster.

 

LOL, HAHAHAHAHA

Go ahead man!!

 

Giving Returnil System Safe 2011 a try

 

Please let me know how it is, I've been meaning to try it

 

Bitdefender fits nice in my desktop, but in laptops I removed it and now I´m testing F-Secure AV 2010

 

I was testing CIS5 Beta in a VM and was so impressed I am now using it on my main system.

Setup to block unknown executable files. Sandbox is turned off, everything else is on. I have barely gone any popups from the firewall or defense+ at all other than something about a buffer overflow from WoW.

Also added Clearcloud DNS, but there are so many false positives I'm thinking about changing that.

Emsisoft Anti-Malware free on-demand along with SAS and Hitman Pro.

 

I downloaded about 30 samples from MDL today, half were already detected by COMODO cloud and antivirus, I submitted the rest, and over the period of about an hour the rest were detected and deleted

 

Currently testing out a combination of avast! Free Antivirus and Spyware Terminator with HIPS active.

 

Windows 7 Professional (Standard User)

• Windows Firewall: Inbound/Outbound block
• Software Restriction Policy: Disallowed by default.
• User Account Control: Maxed
• Structured Exception Handling Overwrite Protection

Applied most of Kees settings
I think Windows Defender is installed and enabled by default. I still haven't disabled it.

 

Wow, that's an oldie, have they done anything new with it?

 

ST is currently working on a beta for their 64bit version. Then version 3.0 will ofer more to it but not sure what yet. im active on there forums and help.

 

Tried out returnil 2011 safe system. It worked rather well until the AV portion kept calling one of its own files suspiscious. I then couldn't add it to exclusion or hide it. It kept popping up. Of course I had taken a snap shot with CTM before install. I restored back to the snapshot and all was well. I must say I'm liking CTM and it hasn't F'ed up my MBR yet.

 

After installing KAV 2011 was getting BSOD on reboot. Decided to drop Malware Defender. Too many kernel level security programs was apparently causing kernel stack overflow, plus tired of answering MD pop-ups. May run WinPatrol in real time to fill void left by MD. Testing below configuration for awhile first. Seems stable thus far.

Firewall:
Linksys Router
DefenseWall Personal Firewall 3.06 (with Windows XP firewall)

Anti-Virus
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 11.0.1.400 (a)
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.46

Blocklist:
SpywareBlaster 4.3 (with Ad-Aware custom blocking)

Resident on Demand Scanners:
Hitman Pro 3.5.6 Build 110
Mischel TrojanHunter 5.3 (994)
Panda Anti-Rootkit 1.08.00
WinPatrol Plus 18.1.2010.0

 

i am waiting for PE Guard 2.2 version to come out so i can get my registry protection but for now i am using Malware Defender 2.7.2 beta

 

Well, now definitly I changed Bitdefender ... and installed F-secure Antivirus 2010 in both laptops ...

Does anybody know if this option of F-secure affect high or in a low way the performance of the system
---- scan and remove viruses from internet traffic -----

Default it comes unchecked

 

Have a good system image ready before you try to uninstall CTM. That's when any trouble will happen. My MBR was trashed twice. I use Rollback Rx now.

 

Konata, the Windows 7 basic theme with a solid desktop background (in stead of picture) with these settings below (and off course windows indexing disabled), run well on a 3 year old laptop with WEI score of 3 due to graphics limitation. For folder settings you can also disable "Show preview handlers in preview pane". It is my wife's laptop she likes to see photo's in folders without opening.

Win7 basic with Areo disabled, gives just a little more eye-candy

 

When having the chance have a look at the Samsung F3 1TB or a Solid State DIsk (last years top models have seen two improved versions placed above them, so their prices dropped, while they still have 190MB read and 130MB write speed, they are good value compared to current top SSD's with 220 - 170)

 

Defensewall 3.06 with firewall
XP firewall enabled
NAV 2010
Sandboxie free with drop rights and only firefox allowed to run in sandboxie
MBAM for on demand
Acronis for images

Just switched from kav to nav and cant believe how light norton is now, will buy when trial ends.

 

Only been a couple of days with Returnil System Safe 2011 but so far no glitches. My laptop is just a bit slower than with OA++ or DefenseWall.

I do like the combination of virtualization and anti-execute. Stay tuned.

 

August 22, 2010

Windows 7 Ultimate x64:

Real-Time:

• Avast! Free 5.0.594 > File Guard + Behavior [Password Protect]

Windows:

• SRP (Software Restriction Policy)
• UAC (User Account Control) > Highest
• LUA (Limited User Account)
• DEP (Data Execution Prevention) > All Programs
• SEHOP (Structured Exception Handler Overwrite Protection)
• Applied most of the settings
• Windows Defender > Disabled

Network:

• Norton DNS
• Windows Firewall

On-Demand:

• Emsisoft Emergency Kit > Weekly Scans
• Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.46 > Weekly Scans

Browser:

• SRWare Iron (built-in Adblock + WOT + McAfee Site Advisor) > Daily Usage
• Internet Explorer 8 (Tweak ScanWithAV) > Online-Banking

Possible changes:

Add:

• SpywareBlaster 4.3 > Immunization

Keep It Simple

 

Recently replaced Avira AV with Emsisoft Anti-Malware:
- Happily, no alerts other than many tracking cookies found/blocked while browsing.
- No false alerts whatsoever. None.
- No conflicts with other apps.
- One bad update resulted in W7 freeze, quickly corrected by next update.

MBAM on-demand scans found nothing missed by EAM. SAS on-demand scans have found a few adware cookies ignored by EAM.

Current setup:
- Router.
- SpywareBlaster immunization.
- Online Armor 4.0.0.45 Firewall/HIPS.
- Emsisoft Anti-Malware online AV/AS.
- SAS and MBAM on-demand scanners.
- Paragon HDM 2010 Suite for partition-imaging and disk-cloning.