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Went back to my stable setup.

1. ESET NOD32 Antivirus – Still one of the best, if not the best, realtime antivirus applications out there
2. Comodo Internet Security (Firewall, Defense+) – Comodo now loves me, probably due to the lessenend popups, I’m still testing out Sandboxing since it’s still quite new to CIS. And not to mention that in general Sandboxing/virtualization is quite in its early stages.
3. Hitman Pro – Cloud multivendor on-demand malware scanner.
4. Trusteer Rapport – For banking safety, but I actually don’t do banking on this computer, in fact, I have never done online banking. I only use this to “protect” some sites like my web mail, my blog and etc.
5. Secunia PSI – for my system-wide security audit every once in a while

With my current setup, though it may seem that I’m using up more RAM/Virtual memory, there seems to be no system impact overall. Everything stays light and my system is still very responsive.  I’m behind a router, still using OpenDNS, cleaning crap with CCleaner and liking Firefox.

All my security programs listed on the right are FREE and right now all of them are running on my machine. Seems like they’re all compatible though I’ve turned off a feature or two on some security programs)

1. Avira AntiVir Personal, currently being used as the real-time anti-virus engine
2. Comodo Firewall, didn’t bother to install Defense+ and Sandbox, but installed the Firewall
3. Hitman Pro, installed as a “second-opinion” malware on-demand scanner
4. Malware Defender HIPS, disabled the Network Protection, all other options are running for this HIPS program
5. Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware, installed as another malware on-demand scanner
6. PeerBlock IP Filter, my IP blocker, especially when I use uTorrent, currently blocking Spy sites, .edu list and Anti-P2P organizations
7. Prevx SafeOnline, for banking safety, also as a second layer as HIPS and malware scanner
8. Secunia PSI, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
9. Vba32 AntiRootkit, me being paranoid, and I’m also using the BETA version for this.

Not to mention that I use Firefox for browsing, using CCleaner for cleaning (I don’t know if this helps security) and set OpenDNS for my DNS.

Best regards,
ER