Paranoid D+ also a default deny approach there. Restricted sandboxes for anything internet facing. And with LP/GP tweaks, default deny SRP, running LUA with tight folder permissions. I mean my XP setup is so stripped down, hardened like crazy. On the Win7 Ultimate x86 setup I have on a Mobile Workstation I am in the process of choosing a real-time AV though, because I don't feel confident that I can lock it down the way I can XP. Those are the 3 AV's I use, and also have TDSS Killer & GMER to periodically check for rootkits.
Or do a full scan with Hitman Pro to get around it's file size limit when doing a shell scan. Of course it only scans files up to 32 or 64 MB, so for things larger I use MBAM Free.
If you go to VT Hash Check's site, boredomsoft(dot)org, on the main page there's a link to the thread I created at Wilders telling you how to do it. I also figured out a way to get it to automatically scan downloads in Firefox in tandem with an add-on "Download Statusbar". And I'll scan it with VT Hash Check and/or Malwarebytes Free before unsandboxing it. I run Firefox sandboxed, and any new downloads go to a dedicated, isolated partition that's also sandboxed. I don't use any real-time AV at all on XP Pro SP3.
Emsisoft, to it's credit is about the closest thing I've found these days.
But you just can't find AV's like that anymore. That and don't like putting all my eggs in one proverbial basket, and like a layered approach. I can't stand these bloated AV's with all these modules, or "shields" I don't need and that other apps I have can do a better job at. exactly what an AV should be, and all it needs to be. Just a resident file scanner and nothing else. My ideal AV was something like Avira Free in the v5-6 days. It's also why I can't stand most AV's these days. And products having useless bloat I don't want/need is a pet peeve of mine. But I could do without the sandboxing module in it. If I only wanted an outbound FW I'd probably use v3 too, or something else entirely, like LooknStop or Kerio 2.1.5 (great legacy apps).
I do not want software that claims the right to arbitrarily grab files off my hard drive and send them home without asking or even informing me, and that item was in all the other EULAs I looked at.
I picked Avast based on what is NOT in the user license agreement - the others I looked at had too many objectionable items for me. I wasn't going to use the too-heavy features they have been emphasizing in the newer releases - virtualization is just too much for an older system to support, they don't have the RAM to go there. (The trick to installing it is to first adjust your system time/date to December 2011 beforehand, enter a license key, then adjust the date back to the present.) At least with AV there are quite a few to choose from. My w2k builds generally get an older version of ZA Pro (5.5) since I have a multipack of licenses for that.įor AV I have been using Avast 6 (not that 7 is bad, I just prefer 6), but avoid the behavior shield and sandbox features, also I don't care for the web reputation plugin or google chrome but these are not too hard to turn off. When installing I generally uncheck the optional addons and toolbars, also uncheck the AV component. This version is only 43MB rather than 215MB for the latest.
Re the older one for W2k, I think it does not have the Defense+ component which is one of the things that I love about Comodo! Their site does not host any of the older releases though, so you may have to get it from an archive site such as I prefer this one to any of the version 4 or 5 releases since they actually took away some features that I use and I don't like the other stuff they have added since then. Edited Apby OldSchool38įor a firewall I like an older version of Comodo, specifically 99.587, I put this on all my builds from XP to W7. Is all that really necessary or is it just bloatware? In other words does the old version of Comodo work just fine for regular web surfing, e-mail etc? I want good protection, but don't see the need for unecessary bloat. However I'm working on fixing another old dell tower I was planning to put win XP sp3 on and I was wondering, I run the current version of avast on my win 7 system and avast version 7 on the 2000 tower, both of which work great-before I go installing the latest avast version on XP-is there a specific version that works best for the XP OS?Īlso the last version of Comodo firewall that works for 2000 always seemed to work fine for me (I tried outpost firewall 2009-but the 'Sheilds up' site kept telling me it was leaving ports open while the old Comodo firewall didn't), the current version of Comodo firewall I have on my windows 7 system is a 200 meg monster. I have a couple of desktop towers right now (a homebuilt with 7 and an old dell with win2k).