What is your security setup these days?

Had to drop SuRun as nice as it was because it's an unfinished program and creates some confusion leading to screen freezes on the Control Panel Applet after applying or changing settings leaving one to force to have to reboot the PC.

It even has an "experimental" setting in one of it's configuration Tab and because it's german leaves a lot of needed info out a universal english needs to know in order to understand it properly.

Back to Admin again with full contingent of security protctions to make up any differences, besides Comodo D+ can run apps ISOLATED or Limited Rights itself.

I hope one day they finally sort SuRun out becaue it did show some promise while testing it but was a big pain to deal with.

 

My current setup is about to change. I've been reading here about various products and trying them out. I'm keen to stick with free products only and a fairly trimmed down "suite" so I'm going for:

• XPS2 partitioned (with a free partitioner from "The Ultimate Boot CD") into "system" and "data" partitions.
  
• Returnil
• AVG
• (Possibly Treatfire - not sure yet)
• Online Armor
• Sandboxie
• Firefox (with Adblock Plus and Noscripts)
  
• DriveImage XML - to take an image of the system partition
• Karen's Replicator - to back up the data partition

 

Hi Scoobs,

I had a conflict between Online-Armor, Sandboxie and Threatfire. I had to drop Threatfire in the end. That was some time ago so things may have changed.

 

Thanks Hammerman. I've been running Sandboxie and Online Armor for a while now without any problems.

I have read that Threatfire and Online Armor overlap somewhat, and conflicts are something I am very keen to avoid (after my own personal Outpost/KAV nightmare) so I think I'll make like you and trim my "suite" down a bit.

 

Hello Scoobs!

I have been running Online-Armor AV+ and Threatfire for months now without any conflicts. Othe programs i have are Defensewall and Winpatrol.

 

Minimal approach with Windows Vista:

Vista firewall + UAC + Windows Defender (can't get rid of it!)

DeepFreeze (still trial)

Firefox (NoScript)

ShadowProtect for emergencies

It would be nice to have AntiExecutable for Vista when it's available.

In this setup there isn't really any specific anti malware application, except for Windows defaults.

 

Still the same. This may be a record for me. LOL.

 

-AVG 8 Free
-Opera
-Returnil Premium GAOTD
-Ghostwall
-AppDefend1Beta (including pet ghost for extra security!) only set to ask for network connections.
-Winpatrol
-RegProt

 

Update to my minimal approach for Vista:

Vista firewall + UAC + Windows Defender + Windows SteadyState v 2.5 beta (trial)

Firefox (NoScript)

ShadowProtect for emergencies.

As it is, this setup has only ShadowProtect as paying ware, the rest is free.

 

My minimal approach for Vista:

Private Firewall 6.0
Super Antispyware
Super Adblocker
Avast Pro 4.8
WHS backup nightly.

 

Real Time
Look'n'Stop
Anti-Executable
GesWall Pro

On Demand
Cure-It
MBAM
Prexv CSI

Opera

 

New sig and setup.

 

New setup:
-AVG 8
-Comodo Firewall
-Returnil
-WinPatrol

 

NEW CHANGE

No need to excuse SuRun after all. I found the older version 1.0.2.9 works to perfection compared to the other later releases. I still see evidence that newer never always equates to better, and a lot of different configs respond better sometimes with one certain version and that continues to prove itself again and again.

EQS (4.0) (Alcyon's RuleSets) + Comodo D+ with SuRun, SandboxIE, and Returnil RVS.

More to come naturally......................

 

D-Link 604 router

Eset NOD32 3.0.650.0

 

I'm just on Kaspersky 2009 8.0.0.357

 

Have have been using the following for a while:

Router
SpywareBlaster
Avira Free
Sandboxie

 

AntiVir Premium
Look 'n' Stop

 

Comodo 3 w/Defence +
Avira 8 Premium without Webguard
SUPERantispyware Free
Panda Anti-Rootkit Free
Firefox 2 w/Ad Block Plus

I've recently ditched AVG A/S, Spyware Blaster and Defender as Comodo + Avira really seems to be good enough.

 

Persistent: Good (old) wired SPI router

Core Security: Avira Premium Security Suite 8

Anti-Malware: BOClean 4.26

Behavior Blocker: Mamutu 1.6

All running very well together on a Windows XP Pro SP3 box.!

 

Regarding Buffer Overflow, I added this to my security :
1. Turn on DEP for all programs and services is MARKED
2. BOOT.INI contains /NoExecute=OptOut (see remark)
3. CPU Hardware DEP = YES
4. Comodo Memory Firewall v2.0.4.20 is installed and runs for all applications.

Remark :
NoExecute=AlwaysOn, although the best setting, was too strict.
I couldn't run 3 applications anymore :
- IZArc
- R-Wipe & Clean
- PerfectDisk

 

Security Suite:Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0

Anti-Spywares (protection off to prevent conflicts):
AVG Anti Spyware 7.5
Spybot: Search and Destroy 5
Ad Aware SE Personal
Windows Defender
SUPERAnti Spyware Professional

Anti-Rootkits:
Gmer
Rootkit UnHooker
IceSword
UnHackMe

Also extra:

Process Monitor
Sandboxie
Opera Internet Browser (safest browser(and fastest too ))

That's all my Defense

 

Real Time
Look'n'Stop
Avira AntiVir Premium
GesWall
MBAM
WinPatrol

On Demand
SAS
Prevx CSI

Opera

 

Dr Web
Sandboxie

 

ooops

Vista
Realtime
Vista firewall
SafeSpace
AntiVir personal
Threatfire

On-Demand
SAS
CCleaner

XP
Realtime
XP firewall
SafeSpace
AntiVir personal
Threatfire

On-Demand
SAS
CCleaner