What is your security setup these days?

Hi, guys. Haven't posted for a while. I'm running now AVG AV pro 2012 and liking it so far. Anyone with experience running AVG AV together with Webroot SA beta, are they getting along well? Wondering what to complement AVG with. Probably a compatible firewall as at the moment I'm a bit tired of using sandboxing or policy based software and would prefer not to for some time. Anyone that have tried AVG AV with Online Armor?

 

good for you

 

Windows 8. FYI you can turn of Defender very easily...

 

Thanks

 

Thanks that's good to know even if it's a long time to the release, and if i'm still with Windows by then

But before you turn it off why don't you go hunting for some malware to see how it protects you? You know there hasn't been any malware written for Windows 8 yet so I bet it will last a long time.....

 

Haha, I bet it won't =p

Sandboxie doesn't work (installs via compatibility mode but won't run) but EMET does.

 

I see, let's hope that Tzuk got a plan for you.
Why don't MS just build in EMET or a similar feature at least into W8

 

I've asked them that same question.

 

Firewall Win XP SP3 + Router (WPA2-PSK)
Avast Free
Malware Defender
Sandboxie Pro
Malwarebytes'Anti-Malware Free

 

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

Realtime Protection
Built in Windows 8 security
Defender turned off

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.
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.

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 -- IE10

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

 

Do you mean you are running W8 right now?

Gerard

 

ESET Smart Security
MBAM PRO
OpenDNS
Ad Muncher
System tweaks

Feels good

 

Avast Internet Security
Malwarebytes Antimalware Pro
Hitman Pro
FireFox- adp, bp, bd quickscan[sandboxed]
Internet Explorer 8-smartscreen, qh dna scan[sandboxed]{backup browser}
Secunia PSI
ccleaner
Keriver 1-Click Restore

Portable:
Dr. Web Cureit
Emsisoft Emergency Kit
SuperAntiSpyware
Rkill
TDSS Killer

 

Comodo Internet Security 5.5 (FW,D+) - password protected
Avast Free AV (just installed it today and need to play around with it)
UAC at max. with password protection
EMET at max. and most programs added
NortonDNS/ComodoDNS/OpenDNS (cant decide yet )

Also checking out Applocker now. I think thats all I will ever need. Free, secure and lightweight (I hope I made the right choice by replacing Comodo AV with Avast AV).

 

+1 good going

right choice for sure

how about the great Sandboxie

 

Yes, I reformatted last night.

 

sanboxie was causing me BSOD on my win7 prof x64 system so i uninstalled it :/

also I have comodo sandbox?

And I'm not sure what kind of protection sandboxie even brings. Yes it isolates programs from my real system.. but why would I need to isolate skype/msn/media player classic/.. ?

What I hoped to be able to do with sandboxie was to completely isolate firefox from my real system so nothing that gets executed on my real system, could steal data from firefox. But that doesnt work :S

@edit: i'm not sure how to configure avast free av when using comodo fw and d+ :S

 

The reason isolate those programs is because they can be hijacked or used to download malware. Sandboxie keeps them separated from the rest of your system.

 

I would hope that CIS protects my programs from injected/hijacked :S

Anyway.. I guess I would use sandboxie but it won't work on my system 3 days, 3 BSODS.. already reported in their forum.

Hungry Man, maybe you can tell me what files you added to comodo sandbox so that java always runs in comodo sandbox?

And why not using comodo sandbox instead of sandboxie?

 

good point

 

You should try the beta if you are having BSOD's.

I just added java.exe to the sandbox. I also hava a javaw.exe and javaws.exe as well as their 64bit counterparts.

I could not get Java to run in Sandboxie without also sandboxing Chrome, which I didn't want to do.

EDIT: And CIS can protect you on some level.

 

Maybe I will give the beat a try then.

Which restriction level do you use for the java files in comodo?

thanks

 

Limited.

 

Swapped Vipre for Norton Internet Security 2012-may purchase a new PC when Windows 8 is default. My vista machine is underpowered-2 gigs, 500 GB hard drive Pentium R

 

Running without any security software. Feels alright haha