Advanced Plus Security Soulbound's Security Configurations - 2020

Thread starter Soulbound
Start date Aug 9, 2020

Last updated: Oct 18, 2020

How it's used?: For home and private use

Operating system: Windows 10

Log-in security

Security updates: Allow security updates

User Access Control: Notify me only when programs try to make changes to my computer (do not dim my desktop)

Real-time security: Across my systems, I have:
Main Gaming System - Avast (File, Web and Behaviour Shields) + Comodo Firewall (6882 build - Cruel Setings)
Secondary Gaming System - Kaspersky Internet Security 21
Production/Casual/Shared System - WiseVector StopX + Windows Defender with Comodo Firewall (6882 build - Cruel Settings)

Firewall security

About custom security: Mainly default settings with some minor tweaks.

Periodic malware scanners: None needed

Malware sample testing: I do not participate in malware testing

Browser(s) and extensions: Don't Track Me Google, Ublock Origin and The Great Suspender (Chrome)/Auto Tab Discard (Firefox)

Maintenance tools: Bleachbit/CCleaner/PrivaZer
EaseUS Partition Manager

File and Photo backup: Paragon Backup & Recovery/AOMEI Backupper Standard (Free)

System recovery: Paragon Backup & Recovery/AOMEI Backupper Standard (Free)

Risk factors

- Gaming
- Browsing to popular websites

Computer specs: Republic of Gamers Gaming Laptop, i7, 16GB RAM, GeForce GTX 860M, 2 HDDs

Notable changes: 19th August 2020 - After a week of tests, decided to settle once again for ESET.
Performance gain is minimal in comparison to KIS/MES however every little helps, specially for gaming.

25th August 2020 - ESET Internet Security installed in my other system while the Gaming system is now running Kaspersky Internet Security 2020 (Latest patch); installed Kaspersky Protection browser extension.

27th August 2020 - Removed Kaspersky due to some problems with Path of Exile. Too lazy to troubleshoot, so reinstalled ESET Internet Security and imported my settings and rules.

31st August 2020 - since I have multiple systems and several solutions installed across the systems, I listed the 3 security solutions I use.

4th September 2020 - Updated Browser extensions (removed obsolete ones): Don't Track Me Google, Ublock Origin and The Great Suspender (Chrome)/Auto Tab Discard (Firefox)

7th September 2020 - Reinstalled ESET Internet Security:
ESET: Default Settings + HTTPS checking disabled + HIPS on Smart Mode

9th September 2020 - Out goes ESET replaced by KIS 2020 tweaked

18th September 2020 - Been testing for a week extensively on my gaming system Norton Security. Good enough for my needs.

9th October 2020 - One gaming system is now running Kaspersky Internet Security 21 with my custom settings (published in MT) while the other gaming system is running WiseVector StopX with Comodo Firewall (cruelsister settings).

17th October 2020 - Main Gaming System now runs Avast (File, Web and Behaviour Shields) + Comodo Firewall (6882 build - Cruel Setings)

18th October 2020 - Rolled back to 1909 Windows 10 from 2004

Soulbound

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Oct 19, 2020

Soulbound said:
Windows 10 2004 version is rather a buggy mess in my systems across the board. Also noticed random restarts and slower boot time.

Needless to say, since I have 2004 on 2 systems in less than 10 days (this is the timeframe Microsoft allows you to roll back, granted you havent deleted the windows old folder), I was able to revert back to 1909.

Afterwards, I disabled Windows Automatic Update system (WAU) and using WAU Manager as a replacement.

WAU Manager

WAU Manager - A replacement for the Windows update interface. Get full control of the Windows updates

www.carifred.com

Systems are now back to normality.

Update: wua manager is working but not fully replacing as intended. As such added wu10man to defer updates longer than the designed windows 10 defaults.