What is your security setup these days?

Well mom bought a brandnew vista64 laptop, so I got my DefenseWall lisence back

Family PC

General
- behind router
- external harddisk
- paragon drive backup for program partition image backup
- syncback for data partition backup

Malware Defender
- running as an firewall, in learning mode with GUI locked
- set to allow only regular installs (so subset of file, registry and application protection which guards against rare intrusions)

DefenseWall 2.48 beta (real light )

Startup Monitor free (to compensate for allowed registry/startup locations in MD)

Shopping and banking with IE7, enforced with Keyscrambler free, regular browsing with Iron

Setup is very quiet with two threshold for installation (DW and PrevX) which can be allowed by user by explicit action

PrevX free

 

Active/Realtime
Look'n'Stop
DefenseWall
Malware Defender
Prevx Edge (Currently testing / leaning towards making it more permanent)


On Demand
CureIt
MBAM

Hardning
Seconfig Xp

Hardware Firewall
AlphaShield

Opera
Open DNS

Sandboxie, for risky surfing.

 

Vista Ultimate32 SP1 laptop

Look'n'Stop firewall
Avira Premium (no web guard)
UAC on
Windows Defender off
System Restore off

Recovery solutions:
Shadow Defender
FirstDefense PC Rescue
ShadowProtect Desktop 3.3

XP Home SP3 laptop

Windows Firewall
Avira Personal

Recovery solutions:
ShadowUser Pro
Acronis TI 9

 

Osaban:

Does Shadow Defender allow instant system recovery in addition to virtualisation?

 

Hi there,
I think this is more a matter of terminology. Virtualization by definition is a volume in your HD that will be deleted with the next reboot, in that sense with a simple reboot you have your system restored (except of course files and folders that you might have committed to disk while in shadow mode).

Strictly speaking a typical ISR (FirstDefense PC Rescue, RollBack Rx) uses snapshot technology which is more versatile than virtualization, but not faster for daily use, IMO.

 

Ah ic Thanks!

 

I am trialing Malware Defender at the moment and am interested in why you keep it in learning mode with the GUI locked. Also, what do you mean by regular installs? Thx.

 

Update:

AVG 8.0 Free
Avira Premium [Free for 6 months]

Spybot S&D [with TeaTimer]
Sandboxie

 

avira free for 6 months?how?

 

Avira make very often promotion like this.

 

ah i see

 

Ffreedom01,

Regular installs only affect an driver installation and in the registry adding a service, adding a HKLM or HKU run or runonce and a pendingfilename operation. They do not mess with other startup registry keys.

At the moment I have reduced it again, hope this post explains it https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1404046&postcount=6

When you lock the user interface an ASK is handled as a silent DENY, when you unlock the user interface and re-run, the ASK becomes an ALLOW rule. So this for ease of operation.

Cheers

 

Just over 2 years now with a hardware Firewall and Firefox. No AV, No AS, No HIPs - no problems. I do cheat sometimes and turn on Shadow Defender when going off piste.

 

Using Vista Ultimate SP1x64
Proactive:
Symantec Endpoint Protection

Reactive:
Malwarebytes
Spybot 1.6.2
SDfix

 

very brave soul

 

Today? Not a GDMFSOB thing cuz I ain't in the mood. Gotta headache.

Dave

 

Update

Real-Time

Comodo Internet Security
Comodo BOClean

On-Demand

SAS
MBAM

Hardening

Spyware Blaster

Browsers

Google Chrome
Firefox with NoScript

Dumping BOClean for Spyware Blaster reduced the boot time for the PC.

 

There's proof that if you are aware of what is on your machine you can live without an antimalware. Same here. To begin with I started at a time long before there was antivirus and use to other systems and different security, also scanning my files with av that cannot have 100% detection and can degrade performance has never seemed right for me and feel it would be a surplus. Note, that doesn't mean I don't ever use av, testing for example, virustotal and some specific tools.

Brave?..not at all, more like not worried.

 

Thanks for the link and explanation. I have implemented as you suggested and it is running nice and quiet.

 

i agree with your confidence

 

forgot a few things, on some computers running xp firewall, all the vista computers running vista firewall and all is going through a lynksis wireless router with security hidden encryption.

 

how did you get avira premium free for 6mths?
robin

 

u culd search on google, since it is not allowed to be posted on here. if u cant find it, then the promo has expired

 

PC with Vista Home Premium, fully patched.
Realtime:
Avast Pro with Network Shield, Standard Shield, Web Shield and Script Blocking.
Windows Defender, UAC and Windows Firewall off.
Behind a router with SPI capable firewall and OpenDNS as our DNS server.

On Demand:
Shadow Defender.

Backup Solutions:
Shadowprotect and syncback backing up on a USB Hard Disk.

On Demand:
SAS and various bootable AV CD Roms such as Avira or Kaspersky.

Browser:
Firefox with Noscript, CS Lite, Lastpass and WOT OR K-Meleon OR Opera.

I also like to use Ubuntu sometimes, but I don't use it as my primary OS.
I also feel like my security setup isn't exactly complete. So I guess I will stick around here for some more time.

 

McAfee Virus scan Plus 2009
SAS
dr Web CureIt