Advanced Plus Security Frozen's Security Configuration

[Frozen]

Hi All,

Please see my security configuration, Please let me know if I need any tweaks to better my setup.

Regards,
Frozen

 

[Moonhorse]

Hi, you have malwarebytes premium + eset for web filtering.

So i would remove WOT ( sells your data, if youre worry about your privacy)
Aswell i would remove https everywhere, wich is kind of redundant since browsers will priority https over http

Rest are fine, in my opinion. Thanks for sharing and welcome to forums

 

[Frozen]

Hi, you have malwarebytes premium + eset for web filtering.

So i would remove WOT ( sells your data, if youre worry about your privacy)
Aswell i would remove https everywhere, wich is kind of redundant since browsers will priority https over http

Rest are fine, in my opinion. Thanks for sharing and welcome to forums

Hi Moonhorse,

Thanks so much for your response, I have removed WOT as per your suggestion. Thanks so much for your tweak.:emoji_ok_hand:

 

[Moonhorse]

Hi Moonhorse,

Thanks so much for your response, I have removed WOT as per your suggestion. Thanks so much for your tweak.:emoji_ok_hand:

I used wot years ago, i couldnt live without '' safe search '' extension back then. There is alternatives wich do the same thing; avast, bitdefender, mcafee as example, but theres zero benefit using them in your case

 

[harlan4096]

To have:

- Malwarebytes antimalware premium
- Eset Internet Security 11.2.63
- Zemana antilogger

It's overkill, I would have only ESET as a resident protection, and keep ZAM and MWB as a second opinion scanners.

Thanks for sharing

 

[Thales]

If i remember correctly you can configure UBlock Origin to disable WebRTC in the settings menu.
So the addon called "Disable web rtc" is unnecessary. Less is better.

Also I really recommend to use Standard User Account instead of the Admin. That would be a huge improvement.

 

[Frozen]

You can never not be too secure I say, that is why I reinforce my real-time protection

 

[Frozen]

If i remember correctly you can configure UBlock Origin to disable WebRTC in the settings menu.
So the addon called "Disable web rtc" is unnecessary. Less is better.

Also I really recommend to use Standard User Account instead of the Admin. That would be a huge improvement.

I will take that into consideration, thanks for your input. I enabled the disable webrtc in ublock and removed disable web rtc addon

 

[bribon77]

I am of the same opinion as @harlan4096. it seems to me exaggerated, so much program in real time.
Thanks for sharing .

 

[Frozen]

I am of the same opinion as @harlan4096. it seems to me exaggerated, so much program in real time.
Thanks for sharing.

Not that I do not agree with you guys, I appreciate your suggestion, however, I have never had performance issues. or any virus threat for some time now, I have custom settings for the AV aswell setup

 

[LDogg]

You can never not be too secure I say, that is why I reinforce my real-time protection

I understand you can't be too sure, but you have 3 realtime protection, this is way too heavy! Do you have licenses for all 3? If you have let them expire and don't waste money. One real time AV product should be enough for daily use.

~LDogg

 

[ForgottenSeer 72227]

Not that I do not agree with you guys, I appreciate your suggestion, however, I have never had performance issues. or any virus threat for some time now, I have custom settings for the AV aswell setup

Just because you haven't had any issues, doesn't mean it can't happen. I agree with what others have said above, you already have Eset Internet security, which is a very powerful and capable product that can protect you very well by itself. Believe it or not, it has many of the same capabilities as the other programs you are running, so in essence you are overlapping protection (which can cause issues). More is not always better and having more and more security programs doesn't mean you will be more secure. One thing I like to stress is that no product is perfect and that no matter what program(s) or security setup one chooses to use, you still have to practice safe computing/security habits regardless.

My suggestion would be to remove Zemana and Malwarebytes as real-time (keep them as on-demand if you like) and just run ESET Internet security. As I've said it is a very powerful program especially if you tweak it. My suggestion would be to have a look at the configuration guide that @RoboMan created if you haven't already, it can be found here ESET configuration thread

 

[shmu26]

You can never not be too secure

Just throwing out an idea here: if you are looking to maximize your security, consider replacing one or two of your signature-based apps with a default/deny solution. Signature-based scanners increase your security incrementally, but a good default/deny solution increases it exponentially.
Again, this just an idea. Do what works best for you.

 

[RoboMan]

Given the fact that you still want to use the three real-time protection software, I would like to give you a quick summary on why it's not necessary:

ESET: real-time protection, HIPS and web protection
Zemana Anti-Malware Premium: real-time protection and Pandora (for newer threats)
MalwareBytes Anti-Malware: real-time protection and anti-exploit

Fact: ESET's web protection uses one of the best technologies in the market (hence why Chrome integrated it on its browser).
Fact 2: MBAM anti-exploit can actually complement ESET, nevertheless I would suggest disabling malware protection.
Fact 3: Zemana is not good for any case. Waste of resource.

Conclusions up to you my mate.