What's protecting your Windows?

[tokyo-joe]

I was wondering what people do re: security, plus wondering whether I wasn't going over the top or missing something amazing... what I have on my laptop is:

Kaspersky system mechanic pro 5 - about $60

Ewide security suite (recent) - freebie

Ad-aware 06 - freebie

spyware blaster - freebie

win patrol - freebie

Is this standard?

Cheers,
Joe

 

[RealBlackStuff]

All my home PCs (6 on a hard-wired network) have
Running permanently:
AVG (free)
Agnitum Outpost Pro (paid)
M$ Antispyware (free)
Running maybe once a month if I think about it:
Adaware (free), Spybot S&D (free), HJT

None of them have ever been hit by spyware/trojans etc.

 

[tokyo-joe]

Hmm, interesting.. don't know what agnitum pro is though - a firewall?

Incidentally, since downloading M$ anti-spyware and running it 10 times it hasn't once found a spy of any description - I don't know whether this is good or bad but the others I have seem to pick them up regularly.

Joe

 

[etones]

my security is

McAfee security center
McAfee virus scan
McAfee Personal Firewall Plus
McAfee Privacy Service
McAfee SpamKiller
McAfee AntiSpyware

 

[Spike]

AVG (free)
Sygate Personal Firewall (free)
Spybot - search and destroy (free)
Lavasoft Adaware (free)

...all behind an ADSL router. I have HJT on here somewhere, but last used it quite a while ago - there's to much clutter on my pc to be bothered now, and I'm fairly sure there's nothing nasty on it. I'll re-install when I get arount to it.

 

[TS | Thomas]

AVG Free
Ad-Aware, Spybot, Microsoft Anti-Spyware

Perhaps most importantly - Mozilla Thunderbird & Firefox.

 

[LNCPapa]

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise on all my windows machines
Spybot S&D
Windows built in firewall
All windows machines use only IE (just gotta know how to surf)
Cisco VPN client when needed

None of my Macs have any Antivirus
All of my Macs run the built in firewall with explicit exceptions
None of my Macs have any kind of anti-spyware
All of my Macs use Safari only

None of my linux machines have any Antivirus
None of my linux machines have any kind of anti-spyware
All of my linux machines use Firefox 1.0.6 as their primary browser with very few extensions

WAP uses Mac filtering
WAP uses WEP (only 802.11b so no WPA)

NAT in front of Switch
Switch in front of WAP

I regularly review my logs of attempted access - kinda tedius since I do use bt occassionally - and block necessary items. Both successful and unsuccessful connections are logged and I review both on a regular basis.

 

[zephead]

i mainly use NIS 2005, because it has proven itself to me on many occasions.

also used ad aware se, avg free, and hijackthis. with my firefox broser i don't get much crap to begin with.

my opinions and choices on these softwares are based on my work experience with said apps. consequently, there are plenty of AV apps that i hate, namely mcaffee and the aol crap)