Advanced Security oldschool's surfing laptop configuration

[simmerskool]

JShelter: Home BTW, it's only worth using in Edge or Chrome IMO, maybe some other chromium browsers, etc. Not Brave or FF.

thanks again, I just installed JShelter on Edge. Many settings at first glance so stayed with default "recommended" -- now see what breaks, ie, fails to load.

 

[oldschool]

thanks again, I just installed JShelter on Edge. Many settings at first glance so stayed with default "recommended" -- now see what breaks, ie, fails to load.

The default configuration is what the developers advise. When encountering a broken site, you may use the individual sliders in the flyout. Breakage is often due to the Javascript Shield.

 

[oldschool]

Added a new, hardened Edge profile for transactions and adjusted settings, permissions, etc. e.g. disabled JavaScript.

I also had a problem with Windows updates. It would check endlessly with no result. I think I know the cause was a certain software, but I can't verify it. Fairly simple fix once I got my head around it. Installed July Cumulative Update.

 

[lokamoka820]

I also had a problem with Windows updates. It would check endlessly with no result. I think I know the cause was a certain software, but I can't verify it. Fairly simple fix once I got my head around it. Installed July Cumulative Update.

I had this problem before, and it was because of firewall software.

 

[oldschool]

Edited configuration to show Defender High block level and Edge with 2 profiles - surf profile and secure profile.

 

[oldschool]

Our old friend @Kees1958 has some news regarding his laptop configuration:

Due to further safety restrictions on my work (can't view mail anymore through virtual browser or use the off-line upload mode for office documents) , I don't use my Desktop anymore for work, so I removed my Windows dual boot and only using Linux Mint 21.3 partition on my desktop. On Linux I am using Ungoogled Chromium with uBlockOrigin lite. uBOL now offers AdGuard Dutch filter, which works well for me. I use Brave as secondary browser on Linux, only to copy widevine from brave to ungoogled.

Ungoogled runs in Flatpak with stripped rights (e.g only allow sound, gpu acceleration and acesss to xdg-download) and super tight website permissions (blocked/disabled all except images, sound, scripts only allow a few TLD's and session only on device data). Only other extension is No-Eval, which together with disabling V8 JIT, allowing javascript on a few Top Level Domains and sandboxing should lower script based threats to absolute minimum).

 

[Jan Willy]

Our old friend @Kees1958 has some news regarding his laptop configuration:

Kees1958 switched recently from ABP to Ghostery and now uBO Lite. So his self developed filterlists aren't relevant anymore for himself. I hope that he will continue to maintain those lists (for us).

 

[ErzCrz]

Really liking Ghostery at the moment btu watching UBOL closely. Just need to do some catchup tv streaming tests.

 

[Jan Willy]

Most recent information about Kees1958 filterlists.

 

[oldschool]

Switched SAC off in order to update and run Smart Switch to backup phone. Decided to continue using my old phone instead of buying a new one. It's still in very good shape, is a smaller size than new ones and I don't need new features, latest hardware, etc.

Switched KVRT to NPE secondary scanner.

 

[oldschool]

Enabled Smartscreen Enhanced Phishing Protection.

 

[wat0114]

Enabled Smartscreen Enhanced Phishing Protection.

Hi oldschool,

just the selected options need to be enabled for Smartscreen Enhanced Phishing Protection?

 

[oldschool]

Hi oldschool,

just the selected options need to be enabled for Smartscreen Enhanced Phishing Protection?

View attachment 285301

Yes.

 

[brambedkar59]

Enabled Smartscreen Enhanced Phishing Protection.

Looks like it's only for MS account password

Protect your Microsoft password from being phished - Microsoft Support

support.microsoft.com

 

[oldschool]

Looks like it's only for MS account password
View attachment 285317

Protect your Microsoft password from being phished - Microsoft Support

support.microsoft.com

Indeed.

 

[oldschool]

Still using Windows Backup for making a secondary image. Fairly speedy with an HDD on this tortuga laptop.

 

[oldschool]

Today I had time, so I updated to 24H2 via the Update Assistant.

Cleaned up 32GB+ of system files.

 

[oldschool]

Rolled back to 23H2 due to bugs, app crashes and performance. I experienced the widely reported pink boot screen. Rainmeter kept crashing and none of the fixes worked.

I should have taken my own advice.

 

[brambedkar59]

Rolled back to 23H2 due to bugs, app crashes and performance. I experienced the widely reported pink boot screen. Rainmeter kept crashing and none of the fixes worked.

Desktop customisation apps are broken pretty much every single major Windows release.

I should have taken my own advice.

Well not like you are missing anything

 

[oldschool]

Well not like you are missing anything

No kidding. I didn't even see the promoted change back to the old "Switch user" window in Start. That was one thing I was looking forward to. Oh well,