What is your security setup these days?

back to normal with only HitMan Pro how that was a buch of stuff in here floating all over the destop

 

Yep private firewall is pretty good and one of my favorites, but I went back to online armor

 

I knew you would go back to just Hitman Pro You got rid of SafeReturner too? Its only on demand why remove it?

 

Online Armor Premium (licensed)
Prevx 3.0 (licensed)

 

Okay, I'm doing it, going AV-free.

Removed NOD32.

 

And that is foolish. OA is not high n my lists of protection. Eset is alot better protection and removing it is not wise by me.

 

you'll do just fine without a real-time AV.
haven't used one of those for months.
can't say i miss the bloody: "your virus database has been updated" 3 or 4 times a day.

when people ask me for recommendations about security i recommend them Avast Free, or MSE if they actually paid for their copy of Windows.

when i try to explain to them about light virtualization and policy restrictions and sandboxing i get blank stares.

 

Could be you are right, time will tell. Sandboxie is pretty powerful stuff you know. OA will keep malware from connecting out. Scheduled scans (and Tiny Watcher, hopefully) will tell me if there were holes in my protection, and I'll just reload the system image. My feeling is that real-time AV's days are numbered, I am just trying to get ahead of the curve.

 

that's a pretty solid setup you have there.
if OA popups don't drive you mad you should be fine.
but AFAIC, with a well configured Sandboxie and a knowledgeable person using it, OA should not even be necessary.

the important thing is that people feel comfortable using whatever setup they are using.
i think that's more important than whatever apps one is using.
and of course common sense goes a long way...

there's also something to be said about having a clean image to restore from should "push come to shove".
it takes a lot of the stress away knowing you can be "back in business" the time it takes to make a cup of coffee!

 

Is Windows 7 Firewall Control quieter?

 

a lot more.

the only thing it does is ask you if a given app wants to connect out to the internet. it can remember your answer so it doesn't bother you again.
there is a pro version with more stuff, which is way over my head anyway.

there's only one reason for me using it, which i don't really want to get into here , otherwise i would just use Windows 7 Firewall, without the "Control".

 

Realtime:

PE Guard
Comodo Firewall + Sandbox (Needed something against ARP poisoning)

On Demand:

AVZ
Hitman Pro

Extra:

A few security tweaks

edit: Still looking for some proper anti-executable that hooks NtCreateProcessEx; NtCreateProcess; ZwCreateProcess; ZwCreateProcessEx; NtCreateUserProcess; ZwCreateUserProcess...... bla bla bla...
If you guys know of one, please let me know.

 

justenough i am back to my normal security set up hitman pro and some registry tweaks which keeps me saved from viruses and when hitman pro expired i may use Safe Returner Plus only as my main scaner

 

removed:
-Keyscrambler Pro
- ClearCloud DNS

re-installed:
S10 Password Vault

if Shadow Defender is as good as i think it is then there is no need for those 2.

 

is some one using Spybot - Search & Destroy or SpyWare Terminator these days

 

I'm using Spybot for its Immunize feature.

 

cool
and how is it ? do you get any browsing slow down? and is there a reason why you dont use tea timer?thanks

 

Tea Timer should be called Malware Timer

 

or coffee timer lol

 

Yep haha J. Got my laptop running good now. Just did a fresh reinstall of Windows 7 64-bit. Hehe got my backup image now.

 

try not to put to many security programs cause sometimes by doing that it will criple the machine even worse than a malware it's self

 

I have the same programs. I just was testing a bunch of different software not just security programs on my live system lmao. Windows 7 got sluggish cuz of it.

 

ah i see

 

I was planning a reinstall anyways thats why I didn't mind testing all that software. Will be using a VM to test from now on.

 

cool