MS no-frills security scanner gets thumbs up in early tests

[Randy Knobloch]

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/24/ms_morro_review/>

 

[Stu]

First indications are that it is more than a mere security scanner. More like
a security engulfer! Common MS give us a break! Its one thing to indulge
yourself in the AS/AV market but give people the choice rather than impose an
application to the expense of all others on account of a failed One Care
project.

Stu

 

[robinb]

I am not that thrilled with it
I do not like that it relies on windows updates to update. It doesn't do an
automatic update like the other av programs do

this morning the yellow shield came up and 20min later disappeared and when
checking MSE it still had the old update

This is not reliable because many are not going to remember to keep checking
it for updates
robin

 

[Randy Knobloch]

I am not that thrilled with it
I do not like that it relies on windows updates to update. It doesn't do an
automatic update like the other av programs do

this morning the yellow shield came up and 20min later disappeared and when
checking MSE it still had the old update

This is not reliable because many are not going to remember to keep checking
it for updates

"How to manually download the latest definition updates for Microsoft Security Essentials"
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971606>

Good luck, Robin !

 

[robinb]

I do not want to manually update them- I want the program to update them
automatically! period!
I could go in and click update and it would do it but no one is going to
remember to do that every day
I started a thread on the forum to see who agrees with me
if you go on the beta forum you will see me all over the place
robin

 

[Don Carlson]

Robin,

"I do not want to manually update them"

There is one choice that you have. I don't need to do "Full" system scans
being that it checks things in "real time". Being that I have already done
the "Full" system scan at install I now have it set to "Quick" scan. In the
"settings" tab you can set it when to scan so I have it set at a time when I
am usually not doing something or late at night before I turn it off and
"check" the tab that states "Check for the latest virus & spyware
definitions before running scheduled scan".

Once I figure out when the usually have the new ones posted I can change the
scheduled scan around this.

This is what I do to make this update without manually doing it.

--
Don
I do not want to manually update them- I want the program to update them
automatically! period!
I could go in and click update and it would do it but no one is going to
remember to do that every day
I started a thread on the forum to see who agrees with me
if you go on the beta forum you will see me all over the place
robin

 

[robinb]

I have that checked but I have it doing a scan once a week
I am wondering if you have to have it scan daily to force the update
which is not a good thing if you only want it to do a scan weekly
robin

 

[Don Carlson]

Maybe you should post a suggestion to have it do the updates automatically
as a suggestion in the Feedback area?

--
Don
I have that checked but I have it doing a scan once a week
I am wondering if you have to have it scan daily to force the update
which is not a good thing if you only want it to do a scan weekly
robin

 

[Stephen Boots MVP-Windows Live]

It does not rely on WU, it uses the same plumbing as WU. It checks for
updates and installs them automatically apart from your AU settings in
Windows.

-steve

 

[robinb]

I know that now but in xp sp3 it is not doing it
and I just posted feedback for it
robin

 

[robinb]

also it seems others who have xp with sp3 are seeing the same thing
robin

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Explain? What I'm seeing is a highly competent anti-malware application
which is tuned to be as low impact on the user and their system as possible.