Cohen's Security Configuration

[DJ Panda]

Looks good! Where or how do you do data backups? Cloud or USB? Google Drive is an excellent and secure way to keep important files.

 

[Cohen]

Looks good! Where or how do you do data backups? Cloud or USB? Google Drive is an excellent and secure way to keep important files.

Yeah, I've been using Google Drive for about a week or two.
I store important files on Google Drive and an external hard drive.

 

[Cohen]

Added: Avast! Internet Security and Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit
Removed: ESET NOD32 and HitmanPro.Alert

 

[Cohen]

Added: Avast! Premier
Removed: Avast! Internet Security

 

[DJ Panda]

Added: Avast! Premier
Removed: Avast! Internet Security

Out of curiosity have you used Jack's Maximum Protection guide for Avast? It's very helpful and brings out the best in the product.

 

[FrankS]

Added: HitmanPro.Alert
Removed: Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit

Why did you do that? Any problems with Anti-Exploit?

 

[Cohen]

Why did you do that? Any problems with Anti-Exploit?

I went back to Anti-Exploit from HitmanPro.Alert, just trying out different software.

Out of curiosity have you used Jack's Maximum Protection guide for Avast? It's very helpful and brings out the best in the product.

Yeah I did, it works very well.

 

[Cohen]

Re-Added: ESET NOD32 10 (BETA)
Removed: Avast! Premier

Privazer is a great tool FrOgMiester turned me into a fan.
Just decide weather or not you want to constantly clean the pagefile.sys
Let us know your thoughts on it after you get to know it ?
PeAcE

I've loved using it so far; it's been excellent alongside CCleaner.

 

[Cohen]

Reset my PC and spent a few days setting up and tweaking my security configuration until it felt just right, this (see OP) is what the end product looks like. Feel free to critique it.

 

[Malwarebuster9999]

I disagree with you about google drive. It auto syncs so if you got hit with cryptolocker it would upload the encrypted files.

 

[aliali]

Other software:
VMWare Workstation Pro
Process Lasso
Startup Sentinel
Unchecky

nic

 

[JHomes]

Pretty good aside from the lack of a solid backup. Look into RollBack Rx and Drive Cloner Rx, that's a pretty solid backup combo. Any disk imager or snapshot tool will help tho.

 

[Cohen]

Enabled/Added: Windows Defender
Removed: Avast Free and Sandboxie

 

[Soulbound]

Enabled/Added: Windows Defender
Removed: Avast Free and Sandboxie

any reason behind the removal of avast and sandboxie?

 

[Cohen]

any reason behind the removal of avast and sandboxie?

Just removed Avast to see how I like Windows Defender alongside Zemana AntiLogger and VoodooShield.
Removed Sandboxie because I never used it, might install it again if I decide to buy premium so Chrome gets auto-sandboxed when I open it.

 

[Cohen]

Added: Nightly
Removed: Adguard

I've been using Nightly for a few weeks now, I love it.
Adguard has been replaced by uBlock Origin. I made it so uBlock Origin blocks third-party scripts and frames by default. I doubt I will go back to Adguard.