What is your security setup these days?

Running CIS 5.8 latest beta.
Nice and smooth.
The installer is very cool and the updater is much faster.

 

running Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012 and it's settings to the max

 

do you feel any drag J

 

Wow J. I thought you said it was heavy when you tested it before

 

He did. Maybe he had to cook some bacon for breakfast with it.

 

LOL kj. With eggs on the side and a glass of orange juice

 

ofcourse with mbam pro it will throw some smoke

 

next one to try will be Emsisoft Anti-Malware 6.0 public beta
and nod antivirus

 

I tried Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012. Although I like the interface and the protection of Kaspersky has always been good, I don't really like it. Firstly, it is very slow at pc boot; secondly, on-demand scanning times are slow; and, thirdly, it has a too big impact on the system in general.
Also, I am amazed by the huge size of it. The installer is 147MB and then it starts downloading 32MB of additional definitions.

At this moment I am trying Norton AntiVirus 2012. Like I said before, this is one of the best overall products available, I really like it. One thing I don't like about it, is the fact that Safe Surfing is only available in the Internet Security suite. In my eyes full phishing protection should be available in the AntiVirus. If Safe Surfing wouldn't be dependant on a toolbar I would buy Norton Internet Security, or if it would be included in the AntiVirus I would buy that.
Also, I am amazed by the huge size of it. The installer is 98MB and then it starts downloading 72MB of additional definitions (not even the full database, since the option Smart definitions is enabled).

Really, I love the fact how ESET is just an installer of 50MB and contains all of the signatures up to the build date, after installing it downloads only 5MB of additional definitions.

 

emsisoft taking more time to shutdown my pc..

but its very light on my 10 year old pc

 

Avast Internet Security
Malwarebytes Antimalware Pro
Hitman Pro
Keriver 1-click restore

this setup rocks love it so much

 

Matthijs5nl, why not use Norton DNS for your safe surfing needs? There is also Norton Safe Web Lite but its browser support is outdated compared to the toolbar in Norton Internet Security and Norton 360.

 

thanks, I will try now
EDIT: uhh Internet Explorer blocked the download :/ (will install another browser to download leakwall)

Update: wahh leakwall is too much for a home user like me.

 

I am indeed going to look at Norton DNS soon. How is the speed of Norton DNS?

 

i could not tell any speed difference with Norton DNS when i was using it.

of course, it's probably dependent on where the closest Norton server is to you.

 

Most of the time I don't notice an difference either. But on a few sites it is slower than my ISP DNS.

 

Matthijs5nl, since you mentioned phishing protection, I wanted to mention: some websites that have a known phishing page are given a caution rating in Norton Safe Web. Even if you land on the phishing webpage, no block/warning is given by Norton DNS.

Tested with: http://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=http://balloondippingmachine.com.

 

It's probably very important for them to avoid possible false positives.

 

No Realtime AV and FREE Security Setup​

• Windows 7 Profesional SP1 32-bit (Standard User Account/SUA)
  
  
  1. OS Hardening:
     
     • SUA-UAC set to highest and automatically deny elevation requests from SUA.
     • Software Restriction Policy (SRP)
     • Microsoft Baseline Security Templates, EMET and 1806 trick (3)
     • deny Everyone from executing on data partition and download directory, userspace including desktop
     • disabled unnecesary services (ie. print spooler, windows search, windows defender)
     • Windows Backup and Restore (system image backup)
     
     
  2. Network:
     
     • Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
     • OpenDNS
     • MVPSHOST
     
     
  3. Browser(s):
     
     • Mozilla Firefox (6.0.2) - (Daily Browsing)
       • Noscript
       • Adblock Plus
       • HTTPS Everywhere
       
       
     • Internet Explorer 9 (Banking Browser)
       • Do not save encrypted pages to disk.
       • Disable Browser Geolocation
       • and some hardening available from gpedit.msc
     
     
     
  4. Bufferzone PRO FREE
     • Excluded/Unrestricted Bufferzone Virtual Repository folder from SRP.
     • I run everything here. LOL.
     
     
  5. Spyshelter FREE
     • Disabled System Protection
     • Allow Microsoft
     • Auto-block suspicious behaviour
     • Password Protection enabled
     
     
     
  6. Powerbroker Desktop to elevate specified apps (automatically) and/or run apps in my preferred integrity levels.
  
  

Comments and Suggestions are welcome.
-Konata Izumi​

 

Network
DDWRT Router running recommended build
DDWRT firewall turned on
Google DNS

Realtime Protection

Comodo Firewall and Defense+ 5.8 Beta
(Password Protected)

Comodo Firewall: Custom Policy, Alert Settings Low
-- Ports Stealthed
-- Enable IPv6 filtering
-- Do Protocol Analysis
-- Block Fragmented IP datagrams
-- no monitoring NDIS protocols other than TCP/IP

Comodo Defense+: Safe Mode
-- Autosandbox disabled
-- Force Vaio Event Service/ Battery Manager into Partially Limited sandboxes
-- Java in Limited sandbox


Sandboxie Pro
Experimental 64bit Protection
Beta

I won't go into too many details but all of the following are forced, have drop rights, have start/run restrictions, have internet access restrictions, leader program to force stop sandbox, and their own specific file access settings as well:
--Digsby sandbox
--Mipony sandbox
--Minecraft sandbox
--Skype sandbox
--CCCP sandbox

System Hardening -- Windows 7 64bit Ultimate
UAC on Max
EMET: DEP Always On, SEHOP Opt Out, ASLR Opt In. All internet facing applications forced to run with EMET.dll and a few others as well.
Downloads folder and all contents forced at Low Integrity
NiNite for updating
Disabled some services
As few programs installed as possible. Only what I need and when I'm done with something it gets uninstalled and I make sure that everything is gone.
Digsby and MiPony's .exe's set to LowIL.

Browser -- Chrome Dev
Block 3rd Party Cookies
Built in malware protection/ download scans/ heuristics for phishing
Default PDF reader -- no adobe necessary
Proof of concept ad-blocking

Backup Browser -- None, IE9 is removed

Portable On Demand Scanners/ Tools -- USB Drive
TDSS Killer
JavaRa
RKILL.com
AVZ4
Dr Web Cureit
SuperAntiSpyware Portable
Hitman Pro
Emsisoft Emergency
Ninite for updating

 

what i have in my sig and only that.

latest addition is Password Depot.

also, Directory Opus 10.
but that one is only to make my daily computing smoother.

 

That's what I used to run except for password depot and win7 firewall control free.

I went with just Chrome for a long time, no problems.

 

i turned off UAC for awhile but seeing all my programs run with admin rights made me kinda nervous.
UAC does not get on my nerves much, that's why it's allowed to stay.

 

Ugh tried comodo firewall beta with avast free.
Not good. I didn't have the patience to troubleshoot the issue.
It took about 30-40 seconds to open firefox. Once it was open it ran way too slow. Then it had a script that was not responding. Something to do with lastpass. Not really sure where the issue was but I ditched it for the moment.

Running CIS 5.8 beta latest and sandboxie paid.
Thinking of adding MBAM pro realtime. Thinking it might be too much.
Comments? Suggestions?