MS Security Essentials is boring.

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UnsteadyKen said:
I've been running MS SE
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
on vista Home Basic for 3 weeks now and have
nothing negative to say about it, no abnormal memory usage;
frequent updates and seems pretty light on system resources.

Haven't tested it on live viruses, viri? apart from:
http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm
which it dealt with satisfactorily.

All very boring and hopefully efficient.
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What recommendations do you have for more entertaining security
software?
 
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| What recommendations do you have for more entertaining security
| software?


LOL -- entertaining ?

Good security software should be boring!
 
I've been running MS SE
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
on vista Home Basic for 3 weeks now and have
nothing negative to say about it, no abnormal memory usage;
frequent updates and seems pretty light on system resources.

Haven't tested it on live viruses, viri? apart from:
http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm
which it dealt with satisfactorily.

All very boring and hopefully efficient.
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Paul Thurrott writes on 19/10/2009 at:
http://community.winsupersite.com/b.../19/microsoft-security-essentials-update.aspx

"Microsoft previously reported that its new Security Essentials
anti-malware solution (see my review) had garnered 1.5 million downloads
in its first week of availability. Well, the numbers keep going up:
After two weeks, the download total stood at 2.6 million. Also, the
company tells me that Microsoft Security Essentials has achieved ICSA
Labs Anti-Virus Certification on Vista Ultimate 32-bit and Vista
Ultimate 64-bit in the Desktop/Server AV Detection & Cleaning Testing
criteria. This certification builds on its October certification from
West Coast Labs."
 
Paul said:
Paul Thurrott writes on 19/10/2009 at:
http://community.winsupersite.com/b.../19/microsoft-security-essentials-update.aspx

"Microsoft previously reported that its new Security Essentials
anti-malware solution (see my review) had garnered 1.5 million downloads
in its first week of availability. Well, the numbers keep going up:
After two weeks, the download total stood at 2.6 million. Also, the
company tells me that Microsoft Security Essentials has achieved ICSA
Labs Anti-Virus Certification on Vista Ultimate 32-bit and Vista
Ultimate 64-bit in the Desktop/Server AV Detection & Cleaning Testing
criteria. This certification builds on its October certification from
West Coast Labs."
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Main problem I am having with MSE on a clean install of Vista SP2 is
that for some reason its not updating the definitions. It will go for
days saying they are ok and then I check and new definitions are out
daily. I then update them manually. I just read that others are having
this issue also.
 
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