Your Personal Computer Security Set Up

[[R-DEV]UK_Force]

As I have just suffered from a Trojan - it got me thinking what security is the most popular, I have never had any problems with my current security set up in 3 years, until Yesterday-due to an uninstall of Adaware a few weeks ago?

My Security & "cleaning" tools - was / is

XP SP2 with updates

SP2 Firewall

AVG 7.5

Mozilla - not IE

Lavasoft Adaware

Advanced Windows Care v2

Tune up Utilities 2007

Disk Keeper 2007

What do the rest of you use ?

Similar or not?

 

[llwyd]

hardware firewall

Vista Ultimate

Nod32

 

[Raging]

xp pro sp2,using windows firewall

nod32

ad aware

firefox

spybot s&d

not had a virus or anything in years

 

[FarFarAway]

Vista Ultimate

NOD32

Windows Firewall

Draytek Vigour Hardware Firewall

Spybot S&D

Lavasoft Adaware

XoftSpy

Firefox & IE7 (mostly FF, IE just for work mail which needs IE)

 

[Rastalovich]

Hard Firewall

Vista Ultimate, ESET beta

Win XP, ZA Suite

Win XP, nothing

Win XP, nothing

pretty boring, nothing to report.

 

[Toxcity]

Hardware firewall

Windows XP firewall

and luck!

 

[equk]

linux adsl router > linux firewall > systems

I use f-secure antivirus on windows as it pretty much does everything.

Also obv firefox & thunderbird (no outlook or IE) & XP+SP2 from slipstreamed disc (removed windows update, internet explorer & windows firewall)

 

[nunzio]

This might be overkill, but hey

ADSL Router > Cisco PIX > WIFI WPA-PSK > Windows Firewall/Nod32/StartupMonitor/SpyBot

 

[Gaz]

XP SP2 with full updates

SP2 Firewall

Router firewall

Onboard mobo nVidia firewall

AVG 7.5

IE7 & Firefox2

Lavasoft Adaware SE 1.06

Spybot 1.5

Registry Mechanic

Tune up Utilities 2007

Disk Keeper 2007

 

[old.gregg]

Router firewall

On Win XP64 machine: M$ firewall; Avast anti virus and spyware

On Win XP: M$ firewall; AVG anti virus and spyware (currently expired)

 

[browney]

Desktop in vista

OS firewall

NOD32

spybot

Desktop in XP

Sygate 5.6 firewall

NOD32 firewall

spybot

Laptop Vista

OS firewall

NOD32

spybot

 

[Dav0s]

server 2003

hardware firewall

windows firewall

nod32

i run spybot every now and again but it only ever finds tracking cookies

 

[JN]

Win2k3

ZyXel Hard Firewall

NOD32

Firefoxy

All I've ever used and it's served me well

 

[NugentS]

Linux firewall running two different AV products. HTTP (Transparent) Proxy, SMTP Proxy, FTP Proxy - all AV scanned.

Centrally managed AV on all PC's + windows FW

Internal SMTP Server with 5 different AV engines

Windows Defender + intermittent online scans from nanoscan.com & trend housecall...

I think thats it

 

[Joe]

NOD 32

Sygate firewall

Router Hard Firewall (which UPNP-aware malware can easily bypass -- I like UPNP convenience)

and most importantly exercising caution and bi weekly checking of ALL startup programs and services and cross checking the unfamiliar ones with Google [AKA paranoia]

 

[nathan]

hardware firewall

sbs 2003

xp/vista firewall

noddy32

dont use anti-spyware. i dont download/browse dodgy things

 

[PP Mguire]

Notta. When i get the occational spyware i know where it is and how to fix it myself. Dont worry about being hacked, cause if i do i have absolutely nothing on this HD worth taking or looking at And its impossible to get into my other drive from this one.

 

[blackoper]

windows xp - avg free antivirus and antispyware ( I can't believe how well it works and has a tiny foot print compared to other options)

Linux Fedora core 6 server and desktop - nothing.. no viruses or spyware happen in linux - it really is nice to not have to worry about it

also a hardware firewall that logs everything and emails a daily digest to me

 

[[Ins]]

Windows Vista

Router Firewall

Windows Firewall

NOD32

Firefox

Never had any problems with my setup