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Bitdefender Internet Security 2017 – Ransomware protection Module
To protect your important documents from malware, you should enable Bitdefender ransomware module
- Click “View modules“
- Click on ransomware protection settings
- Enable it by turning it “On” as shown below
- Click “Add” to add folders in which your important documents are kept.
- Tick all your important folders as shown below.
- Click “OK“
- I added my two important folders that need to be protected from malware.
- Bitdefender allow all application that is considered as “Safe” to access the protected folder
- Only when Unknown application or malware tries to access “protect folders”, Bitdefender blocks it.
- If you want any application to access “Protected folder” then you need to add that application in “Trusted applications” list
- To do so click on”Trusted applications” as shown below
- Click “Add“
- Find and select the application as shown below
- Click “OK“
- Click “Close“
- “Blocked Applications” List contains applications that have been blocked from accessing the “protected folder”
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ESET Internet Security 10 : Recommended settings
- Click “Advanced setup“
- Enable “integrate into system“
HIPS RULE SETTINGS
- HIPS rule can be created to protect user files stored in certain folders.
- Click “Edit” next to Rules
- Click “Add“
- Set “Rule name” as “PROTECTED FILES“
- Set “Action” as “Ask“
- Under “Operations affecting“, enable “Files“
- Click “Next“
- Select “All applications“
- Enable “Delete file“, “Write to File” and “Direct access to disk” as shown below
- Select “Specific files” as shown below
- Click “Add“
- Click “…” as shown below
- Select D:\ partition
- Click “OK“
- Click “OK“
- Similarly add other partitions as shown below
- Don’t add C: partition in which Windows OS is installed
- Click “Finish“
- Click “OK“
- Click “OK“
HIPS Alerts
- When an application tries to access files, ESET HIPS generates alerts as shown below.
- Allow only safe applications. Deny if you don’t want application to modify protected files.
- To permanently allow safe application access to files, select “Create rule and remember permanently“
- Tick “Only for operation” and select “All file operations“
- To check the reputation of the application, click “Details“
- Next to “Reputation:” you can see the Eset rating of the application.
- Green color means the application is safe.
- Yellow color means application is unknown
- Red color means Application unsafe
FIREWALL INTERACTIVE MODE
- Set “Filtering mode” to “Interactive Mode“
- Click “OK“
- When an application tries to connect to Internet (network), Eset Firewall shows this alert.
- If application is safe then click “Allow“, otherwise “Deny“
- If you want to permanently allow a safe application to have access to internet, then select “create rule and remember permanently“
- Click “Allow“
- If you want to block access to Internet for an application click “Deny” when Firewall alert is shown.
- To see Reputation of an application click “details“
- When installing an application, if application tries to connect to internet, then select “Remember until application quits“
- Click “allow” or “deny” as you wish
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Kaspersky Internet Security 2017 Recommended Settings
RECOMMENDED SETTINGS
- Click on settings icon to go to Kaspersky settings, as shown below
- Click “File Anti virus“
- Select “Action on threat detection” as “Disinfect,if not possible – delete“
- Click “Web Anti Virus“
- Select “Action on threat detection” as “Block“
- Click on”Private browsing“
- Select “Block data collection“
- You may untick “Search for software that is intended to conceal traces of a malicious program in the system“
Scheduled Scan
- Select “Scheduled scan -> Quick Scan“
- Set Run Scan to “Everyday“
- Set the Time at which scan will be done
- Click “Save“
- Select “Scan schedule -> Vulnerability Scan“
- Set Run Scan to “Everyday“
- Set the Time at which scan will be done
- Click “Save“
- Click “network” as shown below
- Click “Advanced settings” as shown below
- Click “install certificate“
- Click “Next“
- Click “Finish“
VULNERABILITY SCAN
- Click “vulnerability scan“
- Click “Start scan“
- After the scan the list of vulnerability found in the system will be shown.
- Click on it as shown below
- The list of the vulnerable application installed in the system is shown.
- You need to update the application with the latest version of that application.
- click “vulnerability in the operating system“
- Select all vulnerability
- Click “Fix“
KASPERSKY APPLICATION MANAGER SETTING FOR BETTER PROTECTION
- Click “Application Control“
- Click “Manage applications“
- Click as shown below to collapse the Trusted applications list
- Under “Network” select “Deny” for “Low restricted”, “High restricted” and “Untrusted”
- It should look something like below
- close the window
- Click “Manage Resources“
- Select category “Personal data“
- Select “Add->Category” as shown below
- Type “Category name” as “PROTECTED FILES” as shown below
- Click “Add“
- Select category “PROTECTED FILES” as shown below
- Select “Deny” for all three “Low restricted“, “High restricted” and “Untrusted” as shown below
- It should look as shown below
- Select category “PROTECTED FILES“
- Select “Add -> File or Folder“
- Add D partition as shown below
- Name “D“
- Path “D:\*“
- Click “Add“
- Similarly add E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P partitions as shown below.
- Don’t add C: partition in which windows OS is installed
- Click “save“
- If you want any “Low restricted” application to allow access files in “PROTECTED FILES” category then
- Select the “PROTECTED FILES” category.
- Select the application you want to allow and set “Allow” under “Read,”Write“,”Create” and “Delete” as shown below
- Click “Save“
- If you want to allow any “Low restricted” application allow access to the internet then
- Select the application and set “Allow” under the “Network” as shown below
- If you want to install an application which is place in “Low restricted” then right click on it and set ” Restictions-> trusted“.
- The run the application installer.
- If you are still unable to install a low restricted application, then disable the Kaspersky application control.
- Install the application
- Enable the Application control
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