Advanced Plus Security (From forum thread)CyberDevil's PC Security Config

[CyberDevil]

It's a pretty simple config for a New Year. I just finished reinstalling Windows and I wanted to try something new, so I bought Norton For Gamers for a special price. From my point of view, antivirus should at least not slow down the computer, besides protection, and at most do something else useful besides background load, Norton For Gamers gives me privacy leak monitor (although F-Secure do it much better!), as well as VPN and CPU optimization for games, that is very good. NextDNS in my opinion is still one of the best ways to fight against phishing (not sure about scams).

By the way, according to my experience, because I have a relatively weak processor, but 6 cores, and in the background runs MySQL and a bunch of other student stuff, then Norton really helps my games.

Oh, also almost all the software is installed through WinGet - it's fantastically convenient!

P.S. I really wanted to install Avast One, but I couldn't find any special promotions for it. For mobile phone it is MUCH better than Norton because it automatically protects all browsers, at least.

 

[CyberDevil]

An interesting point is that with the same set of personal data, Norton only sees 7 leaks of my data for me, while F-Secure sees 18 (!!!). It seems that Norton only monitors data in the country the license applies to + the largest international incidents. Also removal of personal data at brokers is available only in the U.S. license. =(

 

[harlan4096]

So many browser extensions -> overkill

 

[LDogg]

I think you could drop 1-2 extensions quite easily. Especially the Avira one, maybe Emsisoft too, and replace with BD Trafficlight, and drop one translation extension, could bookmark a website that does the same function instead. Just ideas though, they don't need to be acted upon. Apart from that, good config, thanks.

~LDogg

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Doesn't Norton For Gamers include their Norton Safe Web-browserextension ?
No need for others.

 

[CyberDevil]

Doesn't Norton For Gamers include their Norton Safe Web-browserextension ?

It only activates it for Edge and Chrome, for other browsers Norton does not provide protection, only if you install Safe Search manually from the Chrome store, but that's not what I want, I certainly don't need their search engine.

I think I could drop Emsisoft, because I don't know if their recently added protection against scam sites works in their extension, but on the other hand it doesn't bother me.

I think you could drop 1-2 extensions quite easily. Especially the Avira one, maybe Emsisoft too, and replace with BD Trafficlight, and drop one translation extension, could bookmark a website that does the same function instead.

I had an experience with a phishing site, which first added to Avira database and later to Eset after my request, since then I feel very good about Avira's web-protection, Emsisoft also adds all phishing sites to its database very operatively.

One extension for translation perfect translates pages, the second one translates single phrases better and has a nice looking interface, although I think I can really replace xTranslate with Opera's sidebar, I think I will do that.

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In general, the problem with extensions has become less critical thanks to the new chrome interface, which allows you to conveniently block or allow extensions to work on specific sites.

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So,
- drop xTranslate and Emsisoft extensions
+ install YogaDNS to keep Norton from changing DNS when VPN is active

I also turned off zone detection for download files and Windows built-in reputation protection, since two Norton + Windows reputation protections are too much for me.

 

[Kongo]

I wouldn't necessarily say that you have too many extensions, as I also see their use case, but Avira extension is truly not necessary with Opera + uBlock Origin + NextDNS malicious site protection. And in case anything is getting through, you still have Norton that will take care of it.

 

[CyberDevil]

Update inspired by @Vitali Ortzi config (or our tastes are the same)

I'm too lazy to spell out all the modifications to the system so far. Nothing particularly interesting, except that I completely disabled Spectre and Meltdown protection. I think this is dangerous only for servers, considering that my PC has all the necessary protection against intrusions from the outside, I don't see the point of lowering the system performance even by 1%.

 

[Vitali Ortzi]

Update inspired by @Vitali Ortzi config (or our tastes are the same)

I'm too lazy to spell out all the modifications to the system so far. Nothing particularly interesting, except that I completely disabled Spectre and Meltdown protection. I think this is dangerous only for servers, considering that my PC has all the necessary protection against intrusions from the outside, I don't see the point of lowering the system performance even by 1%.

How's the performance of having hitmanpro.alert added


Btw you may sometimes have issues with some mods getting false positives by hitman pro alert because of the way they could operate to attach into a game and anti cheats would almost definitely get detected although to me anti cheats are malware XD

Anyway if you have issues you can either disable hitman pro alert temporarily or suppress certain processes

Btw here is a list of incompatible games with could help you understand what you need to disable in case you get false positives https://support.hitmanpro.com/hc/en...249-HMPA-Incompatible-games-applications-list

 

[CyberDevil]

How's the performance of having hitmanpro.alert added


Btw you may sometimes have issues with some mods getting false positives by hitman pro alert because of the way they could operate to attach into a game and anti cheats would almost definitely get detected although to me anti cheats are malware XD

I play only League of Legends with its protection no problems ) The only thing is that Hitman is very aggressive to crackers and keygens, I have to shut it down sometimes through the task manager, I never understood how to create an exception in it properly, even when I disabled everything, it still blocked the keygen.

 

[Vitali Ortzi]

I play only League of Legends with its protection no problems ) The only thing is that Hitman is very aggressive to crackers and keygens, I have to shut it down sometimes through the task manager, I never understood how to create an exception in it properly, even when I disabled everything, it still blocked the keygen.

You are suppose to suppress the alert but if there is a specific component with too many false positives you can disable that permeantly at the cost of decreased protection
So just look at what specific component generated the alert

And the reason it's aggressive to piracy is two
One sophos antimalware is aggressive towards piracy (you can just disable the antimalware component as you have eset )
Secondly the behavior of some cracks is risky and will get detected and you should look at the alert as it might actually catch some malicious behavior

Even legitimate software gets detected if it does stuff software usually isn't supposed to do like accessing lsass, Sam that malicious software do to steal sensitive information And some software use all kinds of unnecessary syscalls that malware usually use , have anti vm / debugging or write files in a manner that a ransomware could have done

So yeah hitmanpro.alert is very aggressive and that's why it's very useful and you could probably by disabling some components even with piracy get a mostly silent experience