I am running 7 64, sandboxie, returnil, 7 firewall, lua, dep, and just added mse to the mix. Now i was thinking about adding spywareblaster-winpatrol-immunet-or threatfire also, but ive read mse allready has a bb or hipps so im not sure if this will cause a conflict? So what should i add or not to complete me?
This is serious overkill, shed some of that flab. All you need is a good realtime AV (say MSE) plus a firewall (the builtin firewall does a perfectly good job, though 3rd parties are also pretty good) plus an on-demand scanner (like MBAM or Hitman).
I like Winpatrol mainly for it's start up control. But security wise you really don't need much else and the only thing I would add is a decent backup, either windows inbuilt or something like Drive snapshot, Acronis, Macrium etc....
And with that setup you could easily run without a realtime AV.
Thanks for the replies. I dont want to go overboard, but was wondering what others thought on the layered approach. However does anyone know if mse would conflict with winpatrol, or threatfire?
No, mse wont conflict with anything.
I think Returnil AND Sandboxie is overkill. But tell the truth, if you aren't having resource issues, slow downs, or conflicts. Unless it's a chore to maintain, leave it be. But adding more would be severe overkill. The same would hold true though...if it all plays well together, and doesn't make your life a huge chore...
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I'd like to know as well.
Kaspersky AV
Comodo Firewall
MBAM
Super AntiSpyware
and was thinking of adding ThreatFire Free Version
Kaspersky (as far as I know) has either done a TREMENDOUS job, or I haven't done enough to give myself a virus. I almost WANT a virus just to see if Kaspersky is actually doing it's job lol.
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