Hawkeye11647's Security Config

Your config seems quite secure - however there are certain points you may need to cover.

Firstly, system/data backups: I recommend you regularly create system images of known good states of your system, so that you may use the backup images to restore those exact states in case of a disaster, such as a software malfunction or malware infection.

Secondly, regarding security patches: Is there a specific reason why you have disabled this feature? (For example: People disable it to prevent the Windows 10 upgrade notification modules from installing)

Other than the above, you should be good to go.

Thanks for sharing your config with us! :P
 
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Make sure important security updates are installed and your OS is updated.Better yet consider upgrading to Windows 10!
Apart from considering OS updates and the other suggestions config is good.
Thanks for sharing it :)
 
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Be sure to have a good defrag software like Defraggler or Augolostic. Adding Zemana AM for scanning. An AV like Avast to as Emisoft is an AM.
I know updates can be annoying but they are crucial in the dark ages of the internet :)
 
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hawkeye11647 said:
Windows Update sometimes can consume a lot of computer resources and slightly slow down computer, so I disabled it.
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"sometimes".

Emsisoft Anti-Malware loads a background services and auto-starts, doesn't that slow down boot? Or what about scheduled scanning? Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free also loads a background service on boot. Scanning with MBAM can be intensive.

Chrome and Firefox also can use a fair bit of resources, for example, media-heavy sites can lag your system. I hear it's resource intensive to update browsers and other software, are you sure you want to update?

Funny excuse.
 
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When Windows Update was turned on, svchost.exe always consumed more than 1 GB of RAM all the time. That was the main reason for turning off checking updates.
 
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3161647

About this update
This update contains some improvements to Windows Update Client in Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. This includes the following:
  • An optimization that addresses long scan time for updates that's reported on some computers.
  • Fix for a Windows Update error 0x8007000E on some computers while they are updating.
  • Some reliability improvements.
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Came out very recently. Try it out.
 
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