What is your security setup these days?

I have the pretty much the same setup after installing Vista SP1. It runs smooth as glass now without all of those antimalware programs that clogged up XP.

I feel very secure with UAC on, IE protected mode on, NOD32, WinPatrol, Windows firewall plus Raxco's FD-ISR and ShadowProtect for problems with testing software or hard drive failure. I even dumped Firefox, at least until the final v3 comes out. Vista SP1 has been very stable and responsive after spending some time getting the drivers setup properly.

I was even able to port it over from my RAID 0 desktop to my laptop using SP's HIR function. It took a little tweaking with DriverGenius, but was much easier than reinstalling all of my programs.

Silver

 

Real-Time
Look'n'Stop
Avast
MBAM
GesWall
WinPatrol

On-Demand
Cure-It
Prevx CSI

 

Coming 2k setup... Nothing special just change OS XP->2k and of course some nLitening.

 

i guess just for the fun of it ?

 

Are you going to answer prompts or write firewall rules?

 

RealTime

Linksys Wireless SPI Firewall
Avira Personal Premium 8.0
Mamutu 1.6

On Demand

SAS
MBAM

 

I already asked for help in the forum "Other Firewalls".

 

I'm a fan of free products. I use the apps in my sig and keep it all running nicely with CCleaner, Eusing Free Registry Cleaner, and Acronis True Image Personal V8 Free. Works well for me.

 

Online-Armor 2.1.0.130
EQSecure 3.41
Avira AntiVir
Sandboxie
Returnil
SAS Pro real-time

FD-ISR
DriveImageXML
TI10

 

NETWORK
Two Linksys Wrt54g Routers (DD-WRT Flashed) in WDS Mode
SPI Firewall Enabled

RESIDENT XP SP3 <--- Primary OS
Online Armor AV+ 2.1.0.130
DriveSentry 3.02.16 Trial
RVS 2008 Premium Edition 2.0.0.5007
Sandboxie 3.24 (Paid)

RESIDENT VISTA SP1 <--- Backup OS
Norton Antibot 1.1.838
RVS 2008 Personal Edition 2.0.0.5011
Sandoxie 3.24 (Free)
Windows Firewall: on
UAC: off, Windows Defender: off

BACKUP
Acronis True Image 10
Acronis Disk Director Suite 10
Acronis OS Selector 10

*Added DriveSentry to XP as I stated I would in my post 2234 .

dja2k

 

Maybe not. If all programs working fine then I can change my OS totally. 2k is much lighter than XP (or Vista).

 

Look 'n' Stop
Nodv3
Comodo BoClean(only untill getting some fix to my issue with high cpu usage with Threatfire!)
SpywareBlaster

 

I know Mike,i was a late convert to XP coming from 2000,i liked it but changed to XP,why ? i don't know. maybe a litle following of the fashion at that time.
But if Xp drags your system then perhaps some newer hardware is needed.

 

I have finished my VirtualBox tests and now it's time for real system test. Everything working fine with VB but I think that there might come some problems with bluetooth and wireless. I have to say that tweaked installation and ghostwall, defensewall, sandboxie and shadow defender running memory usage is 65MB

EDIT: Actually this is my first time when I test 2k.

EDIT: My system is fine but I want that it's blazing fast. Core Duo laptop with 2GB ram. 7200rpm HDD and NVIDIA Quadro. 1920x1200 15,4" Widescreen.

 

Vista 32 SP1 set-up "changes" in bold as of 4/16/08:

Resident:

DefenseWall HIPS v2.40 Beta[Update]
Netgear RP614 v2 Router w/NAT & SPI
Primary Response SafeConnect v3.0.0.1443
Vista Firewall

On-Demand:

Autoruns
AVZ Antiviral Toolkit
GMER
Prevx CSI+
Process Explorer
RegRun Reanimator
RootKit Hook Analyzer
Shadow Defender(For testing purposes)
SUPERAntiSpyware Free
System Repair Engineer(SREng)

System Hardening:

Applied manual system hardening tweaks
Disabled non-essential Vista services
Enabled Software DEP for all programs and services
Disable UAC with TweakUAC
Disabled Windows Defender
Uninstalled Java Runtime Environment
Windows Worms Door Cleaner

Backup:

ERUNT(registry)
Paragon Drive Backup

Miscellaneous:

Primary Web Browser - Opera v9.27(w/UserJS scripts; Java disabled, JavaScript enabled(userscripts only), but with options disabled, Iframes disabled and plug-ins disabled);(https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1207602&postcount=6)
Email Client - The Bat! Home


Peace & Gratitude,

CogitoErgoSum

 

Thanks for this information. Just downloaded and it's time to test it.

EDIT: There is bug in Resource Protection. I have New Rich Text Document.rtf file in my C:\Documents and Settings folder so DW protects C:\Documents and Settings\New Rich Text Document.rtf\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox under firefox.exe.

 

Hello MikeNAS,

Please report this bug in the following support thread posted below or contact Ilya directly at (support[at]softsphere[dot]com). Thanks in advance.

http://gladiator-antivirus.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=71489


Peace & Gratitude,

CogitoErgoSum

 

AntiVir Premium 8
Windows Vista FW
and Prevx CSI, that's all.

 

I send PM to him.

 

i don't have quite the large and complex setup as i don't really believe you need that much software to protect your computer provided you know how and what your surfing. I've got so far:
Firewall / HIPS : Comodo Firewall Pro with Defence +
Anti-malware: S & D 1.5.2
Anti-virus: Avast Home
Browser: FF with No Script, Adblock plus, Keyscrabler 2.0, WOT, various other addons (non security related)

i have tor and proxomitron installed but rarely use them, i can't really think of anything else i could/really need to install to keep a computer clean and up and running.

 

Ask some paranoids

 

Actually that is what I have decided to use, minus Prevx, snd with Mailwasher Pro.

 

Nod32v3+look'n'Stop are all I need.
All the rest've been a waste of time.

 

Dynalink RTA1025W router
Vista firewall
Avast 4.8 Home
SUPERAntiSpyware free
SpywareBlaster
Firefox + NoScript & Adblock Plus

 

I just found very good deal. Buy Roboform Pro with 20% discount ($23.95) and get MailWasher Pro for free. Both products comes with lifetime license. I'm not sure if I get Benign for free too.