What is your security setup these days?

back to trying applocker again

 

back to something simple that works and doesnt hog your memory

 

New setup...

Avira Free 10
SRWare Iron 6
Sandboxie Free 3.48, sandboxing Iron only.

Free, Light and Secure (I hope).

 

Yeah, but doesn't leave much to play with. I need a pop up every once in a while. That's much better than that string music twang MS chirps out whenever something doesn't have permission to run. At least hit me with some big red letter warning message difficult to interpret. Keeps things exciting.

 

That'd be Prevx and not NOD32.

 

I would disagree. Prevx causes too much I/O activity to negate whatever savings it does on RAM. NOD32 runs super sweet on my very sensitive machine. (Just waiting for it to become compatible with WLM 2011.) Uptil now only avast!, Norton 2010, 2011 and NOD32 are the apps that do not slow down my machine.
The only irritating part of NOD32 is the browser hang when a large executable finishes downloading.

 

ADDED:: Privacyfirewall

All else remains 100% rock solid and stable as always.


Nothing else new need be added just yet.

 

Play PC (Vista x32 business)

OS Internals (no extra overhead or cost)
- Safe Admin, manually installed (UAC Hardened, running Chrome portable and Mail in Low-rights world + EMET-2 + Virtualised)
- Locked down IE8 through Group Policy and FW for on-line banking
- All low rights directories have a deny ACL to prevent low rights processes executing in low rights container (downloaded low rights processes can't execute in medium / high rights directories)
- Windows FW setup 2-way

Realtime protection
- CTM free
- Norton UAC tool free

Adhoc
- Hitman Pro free
- MBAM free

 

I wish avast had a stand alone free firewall..for me its working near enuf perfect

 

Still using whats in my sig. Just F Secure AV, PrevX SOL, and LnS in real time. Everything else is on demand.

Tiny Watcher has been removed and Process Hacker has replaced the standard task manager by default.

 

Some of the notable Norton settings I have changed:

Smart Definitions: ON
Compressed Files Scan: OFF
Heuristic Protection: Aggressive
Enable Boot Time Protection: OFF
SONAR Advanced Mode: Aggressive
Performance Monitoring: OFF

 

New security setup on Windows 7 Ultimate x86

1. Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 CF1 (11.0.1.400 a.b) ) manually configured
2. WinPatrol PLUS 2010 (19.0.2010.0) ) manually configured
3. DefenseWall Personal Firewall (3.07) manually configured
4. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (1.46) On-Demand only
5. Wondershare Time Freeze (2.0)
6. UAC/SEHOP/DEP/EMET 2.0/SRP/GPO

Comments/Suggestions?

 

I concur.
It really slowdowns the system.
Guess majority of Prevx users are using facebook version and think that Prevx is light, but with real-time guard protection ... it's a different story.

 

You can.

 

Why using DW's FW version if KIS already comes with a (very effetive) firewall? If you like it's sandboxing/restriction policy features then just get the HIPS version.

 

Real-Time
Defensewall 3.07

Light Virtualization
ShadowDefender 1.1.0.325

On-Demand
Gmer ~ CureIt ~ MBAM ~ Hitman

OpenDNS
Opera 10.62

 

As much as SuperAntiSpyware seemed nice it did not seem to fit in on my machine really. So I turned it off and it will now be on-demand only from now on.

Next up to try Rising PC Doctor

 

Rising PC Doctor is now installed, it seems like a nice little program.

 

This has been my experience also. Process Monitor shows non-stop activity by Prevx. (Question: Is there a way to measure I/O activity other than using ProcMon?) And there were Event IDs and hangs that went away when I took Prevx off.

But I think my over-clocked multi-core 7x64 machine is very sensitive too, though this is my first Windows computer, self-built, so I have nothing to compare it to.

NOD32 feels very light, as does WinPatrol. Mamutu is almost as active as Prevx was, but I'm not getting any conflicts.

Not seeing a browswer hang on large downloads using NOD32 and IE8. Might be a conflict somewhere else?

 

On my lappie:

Prevention:
Windows Hardening, Browser Hardening/Immunization,
Comodo Firewall with Defense+ ON

Detection:
Panda Cloud AV Pro
Returnil Virus Guard
WinPatrol Plus

Cure:
Hitman Pro

On my family's lappie (aka toy machine):

Comodo Time Machine with 2 Snapshots:

Snapshot 1.
LUA,SRP
Comodo Firewall with Defense+ ON
Panda Cloud AV Free

Snapshot 2.
LUA,SRP
Comodo Firewall with Defense+ ON
Avast Pro 30 days trial

 

Norton Antivirus 2011
LUA
DEP
SEHOP

 

KIS Firewall is very strong and effective. I am forced to use DefenseWall Personal Firewall because I have valid one-year license of it.

 

i have valid licenses for many security apps.
doesn't mean because i have them i have to use them.

only thing it means is that i have to be smarter about how i spend my money on this stuff in the future.

 

I did not buy the license, but won in a giveaway.

 

so?
you still don't HAVE to use it if you don't really feel like it.