Advanced Plus Security Amico's Gaming Security 2021

[amico81]

New Year with a new protection. After happy years with Eset now a new beginning with F-Secure

 

[FireHammer]

Hi, IMHO set UAC to always notify & just maybe get a VPN if you are on shared Wi-Fi sometimes, Nice Configuration.

 

[Kongo]

Very simple and good setup. You could consider setting UAC to always notify as FireHammer already said and maybe add FirewallHardening by AndyFul to your config.

FirewallHardening: https://github.com/AndyFul/ConfigureDefender/raw/master/H_C_HardeningTools.zip

 

[Back3]

F-Secure antivirus or F-Secure Safe that includes browsing and banking protection?

 

[amico81]

F-Secure antivirus or F-Secure Safe that includes browsing and banking protection?

just the basic antivirus... i wanna test a simple setting this year. I think for browsing protection is bitdefender traffic light extension enough.

 

[SumTingWong]

just the basic antivirus... i wanna test a simple setting this year. I think for browsing protection is bitdefender traffic light extension enough.

is the bitdefender traffic light extension work though? is it update regularly or is it an abandon tool from bitdefender?

 

[silversurfer]

@amico81

Do you already using Autoruns by Windows Sysinternals, this tool is highly recommended even to check for former software drivers leftover...

Autoruns for Windows - Sysinternals

See what programs are configured to startup automatically when your system boots and you login.

docs.microsoft.com

Using Autoruns to Deal with Startup Processes and Malware

Most geeks have their tool of choice to deal with processes that start up automatically, whether that is MS Config, CCleaner, or even Task Manager in Windows 8 — but none of them are as powerful as Autoruns, which is also our Geek School lesson for today.

www.howtogeek.com

 

[Thales]

For a gaming setup F-Secure Antivirus is perfect. I don't think you will notice any slowdown because of it. Good to see you are using SUA, it is another layer.
Set UAC to maximum! (it is strongly recommended)

 

[enaph]

Nice and clean setup!

 

[amico81]

For a gaming setup F-Secure Antivirus is perfect. I don't think you will notice any slowdown because of it. Good to see you are using SUA, it is another layer.
Set UAC to maximum! (it is strongly recommended)

Yes, f-secure is really fast..no delay at starting programs or games. ( and i have tested so many other av's in term of impact...like panda, webroot or mcafee)

 

[amico81]

@amico81

Do you already using Autoruns by Windows Sysinternals, this tool is highly recommended even to check for former software drivers leftover...

Autoruns for Windows - Sysinternals

See what programs are configured to startup automatically when your system boots and you login.

docs.microsoft.com

Using Autoruns to Deal with Startup Processes and Malware

Most geeks have their tool of choice to deal with processes that start up automatically, whether that is MS Config, CCleaner, or even Task Manager in Windows 8 — but none of them are as powerful as Autoruns, which is also our Geek School lesson for today.

www.howtogeek.com

Yeah i'm using Autoruns by Windows Sysinternals too. I have made first experiences with it to search the process avg overseer after deinstall of avg.

 

[amico81]

Back to Microsoft Defender.
The reason is the upgrade to Win 11 Beta Channel on my gaming system.
The new OS runs fine, no issues and is very fast.
I love the new desgin.
Surprised how stable is it. Gratulations to Microsoft.

 

[amico81]

new day, new test:

I wanna check the performance of Gdata Antivirus (30 days trial version) with Windows 11

 

[Szellem]

Whats happening with F-Secure?

 

[amico81]

removed: Windows Defender. he was light in Beta Windows 11. No comparison
to the slow version in win 10. Maybe they have done some changes under the hood
added: F-Secure Safe (Thx to the 1-year promo here ) my whole system is light and snappy.

 

[Shadowra]

Hello

Good configuration, but I would add NextDNS to filter ads, tracking cookies and some security settings.
A VPN to make browsing anonymous (there are cheap ones)
Plan your backups, so you don't have to think about it anymore

 

[amico81]

maybe i will try "Netcraft"again in Firefox.
i changed the Trafficlight -Addon to the own F-Secure-Addon and have some
malware-filters in my ublock-list

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

You have Firefox + uBlock Origin + F-Secure Safe.
That should be enough.
Netcraft is "only" for phishing.
TrafficLight and Next DNS didn't do so great in the latest test done here (post 1474 and further):

Hot Take - [Updated 29/12/2018] Browser extension comparison: Malwares and Phishings

Comparison between browser extensions Test 29/12 Q&A - [Updated 29/12/2018] Browser extension comparison: Malwares and Phishings Test 24/11 Q&A - [Updated 24/11/2018] Browser extension comparison: Malwares and Phishings Test 12/11 Q&A - [Updated 12/11/2018] Browser extension comparison...

malwaretips.com

 

[Kongo]

TrafficLight and Next DNS didn't do so great in the latest test done here (post 1474 and further):

I would say that NextDNS is a DNS provider that is good for attack surface reduction while browsing. Throwing a bunch of malicious links with the same format at it doesn't say much as many of it's security advantages are not covered by those links (TLD-blocking, IDN Homograph-blocking, NRD-blocking etc.). I'd say that you should always use a good additional blocklist in NextDNS. For my browsing habits NextDNS + OISD blocklist is absolutely enough and doesn't require me to install another extension that has access to all my browsing data. After all I hope that the malicious web-filtering in NextDNS will be improved further. Especially the recently released "AI-Driven Threat Detection" could be interesting in the future when more and more data will be fed to the AI-engine.

 

[plat]

Yes, I've found uBO to be the jack-knife of browser ext. If there's a way to consolidate as much as possible into there, I'll find it eventually. There's a blocklist for phishing also--Phishing Army on Filter Lists. com. Just got updated today but personally, I don't use it now. Do use OISD basic list as SecureKongo mentioned.