What is your security setup these days?

Yep, although at the moment I have the vast majority of my C drive running it.

It wouldn't hurt to run EMET in Chrome I suppose. I don't know how much it would help either. I don't bother since Flash/Chrome are both sandboxed.

 

Most of your C drive? Wow must have taken awhile to setup no?

I hear you on Chrome, I do use it as my secondary browser as Firefox is my main one.

 

playing with ESET Smart Security 5 firewall and hips both in interactive mode my fingers hurt from all pop ups

 

How the hell do you types get anything done?

 

I used a tool to add .exe's folder by folder. It's still being developed though so I won't be posting it on here.

 

plugin-container.exe is the answer.

 

No problem.

 

Thanks so much!!!

Cheers.

 

i put it in learning mode

 

Your welcome.

 

By Clicking and clicking and clicking and clicking and clicking and clicking.Its like stick shift sports car, its fun at first then automatic starts looking real good.

 

even the famous rouges antivirus wont like to get install

 

LOL.

 

just trying to be as simple as posible
Nod,appguard and defensewall are mybest choices

 

Look'n'Stop 2.07 (Enhanced RuleSet)
Sandboxie 3.60 (Restricted)
AppGuard 3.2 (Lockdown)
Shadow Defender 1.1.0.325 (Always in ShadowMode)

Added - KeyScrambler 2.8.2 (Just in case)

Macrium Reflect 4.2

System Explorer ~ AdMuncher ~ OpenDNS ~ Opera

 

Once you finally set it to Interactive mode, it's still noisy and won't shut up for just a short time

 

everything comes full circle in time. First the AV, then it lack of solid protection. Then products like DW, GW, Sandboxie and others and, all of the sudden, users grow tired of having their computers locked up in jail.

The AV vendors see a light at the end of the tunnel and start working on fixing what should have been fixed years ago.

The AV vendors with their AV offerings and their suites, now offer a multitude of choices of protection.

Thus the circle closes, and we are back in circa 1982. The next 5 years will be profoundly for the AV vendors who can build the ultimate blue pill. All aided by Microsoft.

Very light, no interaction, excellent protection and just a user yearly renew fee. Isnt that where it all started? Full circle.

 

exactly

 

Yes, security while maintaining compatibility and functionality is definitely the end goal. The problem is that the malware writers are capable of bypassing just about anything.

 

I dont honestly think for much longer. In the past Microsoft was more concerned with photo editing then making software that actually was a door. The piece missing was a good lock and now we are all about to see the that happen. I really think the malware writers will turn their ability elsewhere.

 

Don't count on it.

 

I disagree. THe internet has been, well, unsophisticated for to long. People demand the same equivalent of security as they do with their phone and TV. It is not impossible but one that takes on the cooperation of all involved.

We are not livig in the 90s and the time for security with internet usage has come.

 

The time for security has been around for 20 years. People have been demanding security in both the corporate and personal sector for a long long time. Not a hell of a lot has changed since then honestly. Firewalls are just about the same, AV's are still basically the same with the exception of cloud-based signatures, heuristics has been around since the 80s and was being used commercially in the 90s.

The only really big changes I've seen are programs like DefenseWall and Sandboxie, which are great but hardly an "ultimate answer" to security.

Things like EMET are nice too but in the end they're just stop-gaps to make exploits a bit harder to get at.

And no matter how amazing 3rd party security programs become we haven't seen serious movement by Windows to secure their OS since XP SP1 and to an extent Vista.

 

you keep talking in the past tense. Look forward at not what we want to happen, but in reality, what has to happen.

 

As long as there is money to be made by exploiting systems we will continue to see systems exploited. That's true - past, present, or future.