Advanced Plus Security LDoggs Rugged Laptop Configuration

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Dec 29, 2018
Windows Edition
Pro
Security updates
Allow security updates and latest features
User Access Control
Always notify
Real-time security
Forticlient w/ Syshardener, Window Defender w/ Hard_Configuree & ConfigureDefender
Firewall security
Microsoft Defender Firewall
Periodic malware scanners
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free - for PUPs
Zemana Antimalware - general scans
NPE - only using when I know the system is infected
Comodo Cleaning Essentials - for general computing aspects
Malware sample testing
I do not participate in malware testing
Browser(s) and extensions
Brave (Default browser)
Click & Clean, Poper Blocker, Emsisoft Browser Security, Trace & Scriptsafe

Comodo Ice Dragon
Extensions: Trace, ScriptSafe, Cookie-AutoDelete & uBlock Origin
Maintenance tools
Syshardener 1.5, 7zip, Wise Disk Cleaner, Virtual DJ, Process Explorer
File and Photo backup
Aomei Backupper
System recovery
Aomei Backupper

LDogg

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Care to elaborate more than "PWs are stored in brainnexus.exe"?
My brain remembers all the PWs. Having a photographic memory is great. :p

Edit: never forgotten a password for any account in over 7 years.

~LDogg
 
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JiSingh12

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I am still running SysHardener.
~LDogg

How did you specifically go around mixing SysHardener with Hard_configurator? I've got a thread open about using them two together but it seems only for the intelligent and skilled people
 

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How did you specifically go around mixing SysHardener with Hard_configurator? I've got a thread open about using them two together but it seems only for the intelligent and skilled people
I don't use the Designated File Types in Hard_Configure, this is dealt with using Syshardener, I believe where the key lays is understanding what works better in either program. In Hard Configuer I use: No Powershell Exec Hard Configuer seems to have a better way of reducing the attack surface on this option then Syshardener. Block Sponsors/More SRP are off due to shortcuts/taskbar shortcuts not working as they should. For File Type Extensions I find Syshardener easier to use. Syshardener can also disable unused Windows Services which could be use to exploit the system, some of these aren't touched (read below).

With Hard_Configure you have the option to Run Everything through Smartscreen which is amazing.

One thing to note is not to treat Syshardener like a 75 option swiss army knife, you're only looking for things to go wrong.

~LDogg
 

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My brain remembers all the PWs. Having a photographic memory is great. :p

Edit: never forgotten a password for any account in over 7 years.

~LDogg
How complex are ALL the memorised passwords (a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and Symbols, Readable)?
 
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LDogg

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How complex are ALL the memorised passwords (a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and Symbols, Readable)?
Probably something I won't divulge on here. (reminds me of that paranoia thread again)...

~LDogg
 

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never forgotten a password for any account in over 7 years.

I forget simple passwords within a day sometimes, not even complex characters, just simple word and number yet I forget it:emoji_expressionless:
 

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I forget simple passwords within a day sometimes, not even complex characters, just simple word and number yet I forget it:emoji_expressionless:
Can easily be forgotten tbh.

~LDogg
 

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Removed from Vivaldi Browser:
- hide.me Proxy
- Netcraft (already have Forticlient Web Filter, plus I don't click dodgy links)

~LDogg
 

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For File Type Extensions I find Syshardener easier to use. Syshardener can also disable unused Windows Services which could be use to exploit the system, some of these aren't touched (read below).
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For disabling unused services, the best configurator is probably ESO:
Easy Service Optimizer v1.2

When using SysHardener to block file extensions you cannot:
  1. block in the Userspace files with some dangerous extensions like: chm, cmd, cpl, msc, msp, mst, settingcontent-ms, URL, etc.;
  2. most extensions from SysHardener are blocked anyway by SRP in the Userspace even when you have empty SRP DFT list: bat, js, jse, vbs, vbe, wsf, wsh;
  3. you cannot open/run files with blocked extensions even if they are located in the safe location (Program Files);
  4. you cannot whitelist files with blocked extensions;
  5. you cannot use the Hard_Configurator Log, to see the paths of blocked files by extension.
(y)
 

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Update: 23/10/18

Hardened Comodo Icedragon to become less resistant against certain forms of web tracking including enabling First Party Isolation.

~LDogg
 

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