What is your security setup these days?

I noticed Kernelwars was from Houston and said Hi. I mentioned my 1000th post in jest. I know it's no big deal. I checked my bank account and my pay stayed the same regardless of how many posts.... Sheesh lighten up ... {o pun intended}

 

Thanks for clarifying, trjam. I didn't take it as you being a 'smart a##', more like you had a strong opinion. I agree about ESET, and about just running a firewall alone not being enough, but OA++ comes with an AV. If I wind up with OA free or Premium, I'll run something like ESET with it.

 

Hey justenough, you are running a similar setup as me with Online Armor++, Sandboxie, Mamutu, and MBAM. If you have them configured right, you are covered and don't need to go back to ESET.

dja2k

 

Sorry for all of this for you, Mongol: the o meant a 0 in the post's context, or simply add the missing "n" before the o!
Or I should have replaces it myself with a : o ) to better express the sens of this benign reply.

Well I think I will make use of a free nap now.

 

Four powerful programs, looks like they are working fine together on my computer so far. I have them all pretty much set on default, except for Sandboxie deleting the contents of the sandbox on closing IE8. Any suggestions for configuring them?

 

Thanks for your reply, dja2k. Some sounding advices.

And, btw, what was also of particular interest and intriguing to me in your setup is this singular OS' tweaking (in relation with the software that you are also running):

EDIT Possibly be an interesting sub thread here entitled "What is your Windows 7 x64 security setup these days?", wouldn't it?

 

August 25, 2010

Windows 7 Ultimate x64:

Real-Time:

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

Windows:

• SRP-GPO (Software Restriction Policy)
• UAC (User Account Control) > Highest
• LUA (Limited User Account)
• ACL (Access Control List)
• DEP (Data Execution Prevention) > All Programs
• SEHOP (Structured Exception Handler Overwrite Protection)

Network:

• Norton DNS
• Windows Firewall

On-Demand:

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

Browser:

• SRWare Iron 5.0.382 (built-in Adblock + WOT + McAfee Site Advisor) > Daily Usage
• Internet Explorer 8 (Tweak 1806) > Online-Banking

Keep It Simple

 

No worries, in hindsight the wording of that little post of mine was rather misleading too. Kinda looked like I was tooting my horn over my post number. Well the world is still spinning so all is well...cheers

 

PC reformatted and only have EAM installed

 

Ubuntu.

 

Well first with OA++, enable "run safer" for all internet apps like Browsers, Email Clients, Messengers, etc. I use Online Armor in Advanced mode and in Firewall options "automatically allow" and "autoconfigure trusted" are disabled which lets me create my own Firewall rules. I use blacklists via Online Armor also. In Sandboxie, I have further rules implemented and use restrictions. Malwarebyte's is in default settings with both IP blocking and Malware Protection enabled. Mamutu has "community alert reduction" disabled and only "rule creation" enabled. That's about it!

dja2k

 

And why would you want such a thing .

dja2k

 

@kjdemuth your welcome

 

I like the way you have your programs configured. Very solid. But what do you mean by "Spyware enabled" in MBAM?

 

maybe ip blocking feature

 

Wrong choice of words, but I fixed it and was referring to Malware Protection being Enabled.

dja2k

 

Well, and why would you not want such too, if I can also ask here. Myself, I would even go to the extend of an even more underground sub titlelity like "What is your Widows 7 x64 security setup these days?" if I was allowed!

 

After screwing around with KAV 2011 the last few days and trying to totally remove it using the Kaspersky removal tool, so I could go back to KAV 2010, I gave up. KAV 2011 was buggy on my machine. A full scan crashed and I could only reboot in safe mode. Tried several times trying to reload KAV 2010 but it would stall during an update or scan. I am now using Emsisoft 5 (I had one of the free one year licenses from back in November). So far everything running good.

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

Anti-Virus:
Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.0.0.68
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.46

Block List:
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

 

Realtime
- Online Armor ++ 4.5.0.233 (AV, Firewall, Keylogger, Web Shield, & Prrogram Guard Enabled)
- Windows Defender (Since Action Center warned me to turn on an Antispyware Program)

On-Demand Scanner:
- MBAM 1.46
- SAS Portable

Firewall:
- OA++
-Belkin Wireless Modem Router (At Home)

Browsers:
-IE8
-FireFox (Adblock+)
-Chrome (Adblock+)

Seems to be light..
Comments on my setup please.

 

There is already a thread with a similar name located here, but doesn't have any posts past January 15th, 2010.

dja2k

 

Prevx + SafeOnline
Trend Micro AntiVirus 2011

Love it

 

My oldest machine (5+ years, no infections):

Windows XP Home SP3 (admin account)
Windows firewall
ShadowUser Pro V 2.5
Acronis TI V9
Avira10 Personal on demand
Chrome

 

2Wire Hardware Firewall/Router
Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 - File AntiVirus & Application Control
Google Chrome

I especially love the application control, though it is a little annoying when a perfectly legit program is blocked and I have to go into the application control and manually set it to trusted.

 

Hey. How is TM 2011 working for you, light, heavy etc... ?

 

Thanks, I had missed this one...