What security setup do you have?

alwinwinjoe · 12 Dec 2009

Mercurial said:

TheIgster said:

alwinwinjoe said:

Do they conflict? Please give an opinion.

You'll be waiting a while. Mercurial is famous for his drive by posts.

None of those should conflict with each other. I would say that you should be fine.

lol @ Igster I have a life and don't wait for someone to reply to my post all day... I just check them when I'm bored or have time :) "no offense to the other members"

and yea thats a really bad setup... just do eset and comodo if its what you like but other avs arent necesary....

if you dont believe me... try to scan a World of Warcraft Installer with eset (with the other avs installed) or some really large Installers and you'll see what I mean... but aslong as you wanna waste resource dont mind my post :P

I bet you're CPU usage atm is not behaving good even at idle lol!

Tnx for the opinion. I'll try to see in a couple more days if my CPU usage bogs down.

Filip · 12 Dec 2009

NOD32 x64 4.0
NAT firewall
Windows Firewall
WinPatrol Free
HijackThis
Spyware Blaster

TheIgster · 12 Dec 2009

Mercurial said:

lol @ Igster I have a life and don't wait for someone to reply to my post all day... I just check them when I'm bored or have time :) "no offense to the other members"

lol @ mercurial. You have a life and don't have time, yet you still took the time to post a drive-but post. OK then...

Mercurial said:

and yea thats a really bad setup... just do eset and comodo if its what you like but other avs arent necesary....

Other AV's? What are you talking about? He doesn't have any other AV's in his list:

1. ESET Antivirus 4
2. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware[with protected mode on]
3. Threatfire
4. Comodo Firewall

ESET for anti virus.
Malwarebytes for things that slip by Nod32 and other types of malware.
Threatfire as a behavior blocker.
Comodo for firewall.

Nothing wrong with that setup at all and nothing overlaps the other IMO. The only thing that might be a bit of overkill is TF and Comodo especially if you have D+ enabled in Comodo, although I'm personally never against more protection, depending on what type of sites you may visit.

jav · 12 Dec 2009

I am planning to change my setup too
what do you think about this combination:

A-squared Anti-Malware with Comondo Firewall.

Dinesh · 12 Dec 2009

jav said:

I am planning to change my setup too
what do you think about this combination:

A-squared Anti-Malware with Comondo Firewall.

a squared is nice but its pop ups are annoying.

TheIgster · 12 Dec 2009

jav said:

I am planning to change my setup too
what do you think about this combination:

A-squared Anti-Malware with Comondo Firewall.

Personally, if you are thinking about something like A-squared, take a good look at Prevx. I think it's better. The free version will detect any issues, but won't remove them. I paid for the full version which has real-time protection. Works great with another free AV like Avast or MSE as well.

smackheadz · 12 Dec 2009

have not long reverted back to avira free,which along with the windows 7 firewall with default settings and windows defender seem to do a decent job.admitingly i use the windows firewall and defender because they are bundled into windows but as they are on me pc i may aswell use em

jav · 12 Dec 2009

My first post was unfinished sorry for that, I didn't realize I clicked post and walked away.

So now FULL POST:

My current setup was Mcafee Security Centre (AV, Firewall, Anti-Spyware) with Defencewall 3 beta.
But I had to uninstall Defencewall (which I liked so much by it's method in theory and things like that but It was terrible for my gaming experince (maybe combination was terrible, but I coudn't get rid of AV for it))

So now I am left just with Mcafee Suite. I have read people saying it's resource hog, probably it is... But my new setup will be 2 or 3 programms so it may end-up same resourse hog or even worse.

So I am asking people who had experinced this kind of combination advice:

1. A-squard Anti-Malware pro with Comondo Firewall free

According to many people and Results and comments - www.matousec.com Comondo is one of the best Firewalls.

And I got one Free A-squared Anti Malware from prom offer thats's why I am choosing it in first place.
According to Malware Research Group
It has even better detection then MBAM (I don't belive this test much, but still)

2 Avira free with Comondo Firewall free.
Comondo same as above,
Avira is free and http://www.av-comparatives.org/image...c_report24.pdf nice result

Cons: I am changing my whole paid suite to 2 free programms.

3 Radical method (no real-time AV)
Shadow Defender Or Returinill 2010 (have free licence for both of them)
with Comondo Firewall or Defencewall v 3.
Pros: Light on resourse and in a way secure.
Cons: I was thinking reinstalling clean Windows installing all programms I will need and some I will probably need in future and virtualize it forever (or DeefFroze it). So it will be almost 100% secure. But then It will be a lot of trouble to update programms...

P.S: First importance resource and gaming experience and second main important thing is it to be less intrusive and annoying and of course securiy . And as I see Dinesh says A-sqauared AM is annoying =S

ATH · 12 Dec 2009

I have Norton Internet Security 2010 - UAC = ON

No current issues with Viruses.

Evilhugbear · 12 Dec 2009

Just malware bytes and NOD32 AV