Sandboxie, avast, comodo - how can I stay safer?

Hi guys,

I use HP Pavillion with firefox as my browser (I run firefox sandboxed). I use Avast as my anti-virus & Comodo as my firewall (I also have Windows Firewall turned on).

I use NoScript & ADblockerPlus when I use Firefox. I'm pretty selective about what sites I visit & I don't ever open unknown extensions.

I try to run a full-scan from Avast & malwarebytes once a week or so - & they always find something.

What am I doing wrong? How can I stay safer?

Thanks

Reply 1 : Sandboxie, avast, comodo - how can I stay safer?

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/did-a-16-year-old-girl-help-take-down-hbgary/

" extremely secretive online:
With just half a dozen close friends online, she has a strict regimen to remain invisible on the web. Each night she wipes every one of her web accounts and deletes every email in her inbox. She has no physical hard drive and boots her computer from a microSD card. "I could hide this card anywhere or chew into a million pieces in a few seconds," she says by e-mail. She keeps her operating system on a USB stick and uses a virtual machine (VM) to carry out her online shenanigans."

While I consider this to be the near extreme it's worth knowing about if not learning how to do that.

-> The best safety tools are between pairs of ears. If some user wants to visit bad sites and torrent God knows what, there is no known software to protect them.

====>>> Let me share that I also scan weekly or less and find nothing or maybe a cookie. No torrents, no dodgy web sites and it's downright boring compared to friends and Cnet member stories.
Bob

Reply 2 : Sandboxie, avast, comodo - how can I stay safer?

Comodo as my firewall (I also have Windows Firewall turned on).
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You might want to pick one or the other as both turned on might not be a good mix.



& they always find something.
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What is something?
Is something a tracking cookie?


I scan monthly.....other than giving my HD some exercise I see nothing.

Reply 3 : Sandboxie, avast, comodo - how can I stay safer?

It's more serious than a tracking cookie unfortunately Yesterday, Spyware Doctor found remnants of a trojan

I did have a virus on my computer a few weeks ago - (that was before I got avast or comodo - I just had AVG then.) But then I used MBAM & Spybot & Avast to clean everything in safe mode AND normal mode. I thought everything should have been gone.

Don't get me wrong - my computer is MUCH better now & faster. But seeing anything come up on a scan these days gives me the heeby jeebies 'cus the virus that infected me took a long time to get rid of & I'd like to avoid something like it in the future.

I'll turn off the Windows Firewall as suggested - I don't want it interfering with Comodo. If I'm doing everything that I can possibly do, then I guess I just have to hope for the best.

Reply 4 : Sandboxie, avast, comodo - how can I stay safer?

Ok - I found the trojan (was on an installer that I had downloaded but hadn't installed) & then I cleaned the registry with ccleaner - now computer scans clean with avast, mbam, spyware doctor - I feel a little better now

Reply 5 : Sandboxie, avast, comodo - how can I stay safer?

create a new restore point NOW & label it ALL CLEAN: Safe to use! & then you'll have at least 1 base safe point to return to (assuming the next trojan doesn't delete it).

I get around that problem by also running free ERUNT to create another safe backup point which is created during the first boot up on any calender day. I find malware doesn't expect there to be a 2nd restore system at work and (so far) it's always been there even if MS S.R. gets disabled/turned off/deleted points.

Works on ALL Win OS's from Win 95 thru Win 7 regardless of service packs
Has saved my/friends bacon several times. Only caution is that about 1 time per month, I go in to the folder and delete all but the latest 2 weeks worth to limit build up of ERUNT daily restore points.

Get it from Authors' site:
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
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Yes, ONLY 1 software firewall allowed (although a "hardware firewall" such as a router
CAN be used at the same time). Safe computing!!

Reply 6 : Sandboxie, avast, comodo - how can I stay safer?

I would happily make a new restore point but before I did that, I ran another scan just to be sure that it really was clean. And lo & behold: spyware doctor pulled up another trojan: I tried to go in the registry & delete the keys but regedit doesn't let me

The trojan is called: Trojan-Downloader.Murlo - here are the infected files. How do I delete them from regedit?

Type - Registry Value
Infection - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetEnumRootLEGACY_CATCHME, NextInstance

Type - Registry Value
Infection - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetEnumRootLEGACY_CATCHME