Until recently I'd run OA "free" and "premium" on and off over the past few years. It's always been my favorite of the FW/HIPS apps but occasionally it would get a little quirky on my XP Pro SP3 setup in terms of CPU usage spiking.
Until yesterday I'd only run the free version of EAM but now (thanks to Jack) I've upgraded to the licensed version and am running the Internet Security Pack for the first time.
As a long time user of Sandboxie (paid version), I totally concur with the conclusion presented at the end of the video review...that is that the combination of the Emsi Internet Security Pack and Sandboxie is very hard to beat.
In terms of the options, I am currently using the suite with both the "behavior blocker" and HIPS working in tandem. Thus far no conflicts at all.
I am not using the EAM "Surf Protection" since I have "website blocking" enabled in Malwarebytes Pro and also use Adblock Plus with malware and other subscriptions enabled within Firefox.
Fully realizing that the current setup has only been running about a day thus far, I can at least report that absolutely no conflicts have been noted and that everything is running smoothly and quietly.
I had feared that the behavior blocker might be overkill (and perhaps it may yet prove to be) but to this point it has been very quiet except for alerting to a few old programs that I ran just because I anticipated that it would generate an alert. Once the alert was answered everything continued perfectly.
At the moment I couldn't be more pleased with my current setup. The only thing I changed in terms of my prior setup was to take WinPatrol Plus off real-time monitoring since the behavior blocker seems to cover all the same areas that WP would ordinarily alert to.
In summation, I highly recommend this setup for anyone looking for alternatives or possible upgrades to their current security apps.
