personal favourites

this is a list of my personal favourite security software

1. ESET NOD32 Antivirus V3.0

Proactive Protection:
Award winning ThreatSense Technology combines multiple layers of detection protecting you from Internet threats before it is too late.

Precise Detection:
ESET accurately identifies known and unknown threats. It consistently wins top awards from testing labs and is recognized for having zero false positives.

Lightweight Design:
ESET's Software requires less memory and CPU power, allowing your computer to run fast, making more room for games, web browsing, and emailing.

Fast Scanning Speeds:
ESET's Software provides highly efficient programs ensuring fast file scanning and product updates, while running quietly in the background.

source - http://www.eset.com/index.php

2. PeerGuardian 2

PeerGuardian 2 is Phoenix Labs’ premier IP blocker for Windows. PeerGuardian 2 integrates support for multiple lists, list editing, automatic updates, and blocking all of IPv4 (TCP, UDP, ICMP, etc), making it the safest and easiest way to protect your privacy on P2P.

source - http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/

3. Tiny Personal Firewall 6.5

Tiny Personal Firewall integrates several protection layers for the ultimate safety of the desktop and server. Traditional Firewall blocks the network traffic based on protocol, ports, and application. Intrusion Detection and Prevention blocks the network traffic based on the content of packets. Malicious packet content is frequently used by hackers exploiting vulnerabilities of otherwise trusted applications, such as Windows kernel components, IIS and others. Application Security controls the behavior of applications and controls whether the application may start itself or whether it may start others.

Also limited are accesses to specific internal resources such as hard disk, CD-ROM, and system. Files and system protection protects your valuable data against to damage by other untrusted programs or by trusted programs run by untrusted users.

source - http://www.webmasterfree.com/CA_Personal_Firewall_d7637.html

4. AVG ANTIspyware Ver 7.5.1.43

Security protection against spyware, adware and other malicious programs.

source- http://www.grisoft.com/ww.download-7?prd=asw

5. FireFox version 3.0

Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is available in more than 45 languages as a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory usage and speed. my favourite addons are AddBlock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.1.3 Addblock plus 0.7.5.4 Malware Search 0.7.8 and NOScript 1.6.5

source - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html

note: Tiny Personal Firewall 6.5 and AVG ANTIspyware Ver 7.5.1.43 are nearing the end of their service cycle . i'm personally looking for new solutions in these catagorioes . i believe i will give either Kerio Personal Firewall http://www.kerio.com/ or Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0 http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/dow…d_firewall.html a workout . as for anti spyware i beleive i'll try Spyware Doctor http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/ . I'll reserver the right to comment on these programs until i try them .

Where is your Behavior blocker(s) and HIPS??

Todays picture of malware threats, demands that one have something to pick up anything not signature based
Signature based and black-listing programs are less useful today than for just 1-2 years ago. Most attacks today are done
by zero-day attacks or by masked / mutated malware, making it very hard if not impossible for conventional signature / black-listing
programs to stop them.

Tiny Personal Firewall 6.5 = behavior blocker
ESET NOD32 Antivirus V3.0 = behavior blocker
PeerGuardian 2 = behavior blocker
AVG ANTIspyware Ver 7.5.1.43 = behavior blocker
FireFox version 3.0 = behavior blocker

Now i have to admit that i am not familiar with the terminology behavior blocker but i believe the term is self explanatory . However i was lead to read some information about behavior blockers at http://www.spycar.org/Welcome%20to%20Spycar.html and performed all of the tests and nothing made it through so i feel good about that . The people at PeerGuardian 2 have a team of people that continuously update their data base, sourceforge and bluetack update these lists 24/7 . I feel very comfortable with the way that i have my software setup . Could you give me your explanation of behavior blockers . I personally feel that from what I've read that behavior blockers have been dealt with in a proactive manner and that the vendors of most security software [ESETNOD32]are on target and in fact are not oblivious to the threat . Nevertheless these are my personal favorites and any literature that you could point me in the direction would be greatly appreciated .

Sure I can add some sources, silly me. I should have done that in the first place, my mistake.

http://wiki.castlecops.com/Lists_of_freewa…havior_blockers

You'll find some additional info at the bottom of that page, under sources. Some great links also at the bottom to various security applications.

By the way. None of your programs are Behavior blockers, as you'll understand when reading the sources.
I don't know if Tiny firewall and ESET NOD32 have HIPS, altho I would "suspect" NOD32 have, not sure tho.

Regards Abydos

Thanks for the link Abydos =]

Thanks for the link Abydos =]

You're welcome

Tiny Personal Firewall 6.5: a excellent firewall but if you are using the old version from 2005, it is no longer updated/developed and could be a security risk for that reason. If you are referring to the firewall incorporated in the CA suite, disregard EDIT: i missed that link which mentions CA

tiny has served me well . i wont be moving to the CA camp . i believe that the new comodo firewall is the best solution after my service runs out . but before i do i will see id it passes a leak test . one thing i should mention is that the comodo firewall comes with a behavior blocker module . i wouldn't have even given it a second thought until i was enlightened ===> Abydos <=== ty . I'm still not totally convinced but i still have a library of literature to read through . i've since tried a programm Helios http://www.antirootkit.com/software/Helios.htm and i'm in the process of trying ProcessGuard http://www.diamondcs.com.au/processguard/ . so far i am happy to say that nothing has been revealed that seems to be malicious . any how off to do more reading thanx Abydos .