What is your internet security setup?

[BinnsY]

Router as a NAT firewall, windows firewall, and Avast free.

Seems to do the job pretty well.

 

[madindehead]

Anti-Virus - Microsoft Security Essentials

Anti-Malware/Adware/etc - Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

Firewall - Windows 7 Firewall and as far as I know, router is also a firewall

Also run AdBlock on Chrome to save myself from ads

And some common sense

 

[Sin_Chase]

Hardware Firewall/NAT.

That's it.

 

[esK`]

Anti-Virus - AVG 2011 IS

Anti-Malware/Adware/etc - Malwarebytes anti malware

Firewall - AVG 2011 IS

Anything else (eg. browser protection like NoScript) - Adblock plus in Aurora

 

[233]

MSE
avoid the porn/warez sites
copy of win7 at the ready for a reinstall

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Hardware Firewall & Windows Firewall + MSE

 

[Westyfield2]

Anti-Virus
NOD32 on the Windows Systems. Nothing on the Mac and Linux systems.

Anti-Malware
Common sense.

Fiewall
Firewall in my Router (Draytek Vigor). Multi-NAT, DMZ Host, Stateful Packet Inspection, DoS / DDoS Protection, IP Address Anti-spoofing, etc.
The built in software firewalls in Windows 7 and Mac OS X.

 

[eXor]

Anti-Virus - No real-time AV, instead.. periodic scan with an updated Avira Rescue CD.

Anti-Malware/Adware/etc - Periodic scan with MalwareBytes.

Firewall - Router + Windows Firewall.

Anything else - Standard User, UAC, Software Restriction Policy, NoScript. For extra sensitive stuff, boot up Debian Squeeze on my flash disk.

 

[kae2]

Anti-Virus - Avast WHS Edition (10 licenses for client PC's)

Anti-Malware/Adware/etc - Malwarebytes

Firewall - Router

Anything else (eg. browser protection like NoScript) - Firefox, Adaware, noscript.

PC's backup to WHS daily. Total offsite backup completed weekly or after a vital piece of work is completed (ie wedding shoot). Server backups done weekly also (external H/D's).

 

[SoundsGood]

I hope you people without an AV solution have fully updated flash & pdf readers

 

[Randomface74]

Windows Updates
Software Updates
Spybot Immunisation
Router
Windows Firewall
AVG
KeePass

 

[Sin_Chase]

I hope you people without an AV solution have fully updated flash & pdf readers

In the same way your AV needs to be updated every couple of hours?

Yup.

 

[BinnsY]

Have to admit, I have been tempted to get rid of my anti-virus entirely. However, I get my e-mails from gmail into Outlook via IMAP so I really want them scanning as they download just in case someone sends me something a bit nasty.

 

[SoundsGood]

In the same way your AV needs to be updated every couple of hours?

Yup.

Must be a chore to do that manually

 

[Burnsy2023]

I hope you people without an AV solution have fully updated flash & pdf readers

AV programs aren't much protection against a lot of these types of threat anyway.

 

[Sin_Chase]

Must be a chore to do that manually

Flash updates come through automatically and I am not in the business of opening unknown PDFs much either.

AV is a useless endeavour for me, needed/wanted by others.

 

[Energize]

I hope you people without an AV solution have fully updated flash & pdf readers

Flash? HTML5 my dear.

 

[SoundsGood]

AV programs aren't much protection against a lot of these types of threat anyway.

The methods used by the common/public flash and PDF exploits still rely on a payload like to work. Anyone who wanted to get full access to an AV free system running PDF Reader < 9.2 or Flash 10.1 could do so in almost point and click ease with some easily googleable tools. If they had AV it would be picked up immediately.

I admit AV isn't going to stop anyone with serious motivation to get into your PC but for the sake of having an icon in your system tray, why not?

 

[Sin_Chase]

It's not just an icon on your system tray though, is it?

 

[marc2003]

It's not just an icon on your system tray though, is it?

indeed. you could trawl the forums all day dragging up dozens of threads like this....

crysis on steam keeps crashing: cause AVG