MSE vs ?

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Anyone here use Microsoft Security Essentials? I don't have any experience
with it but wondered how it compared to AVG, Avast, etc.
 
From: "jch" <[email protected]>

| Anyone here use Microsoft Security Essentials? I don't have any experience
| with it but wondered how it compared to AVG, Avast, etc.


It is semi comparable to AVG and Avast but I think Avira AntiVir is better.
 
Hello, David!

You wrote on Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:31:23 -0400:

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|> Anyone here use Microsoft Security Essentials? I don't have any
|> experience with it but wondered how it compared to AVG, Avast, etc.
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| It is semi comparable to AVG and Avast but I think Avira AntiVir is
| better.
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I'd choose Avira too. IMHO
 
jch said:
Anyone here use Microsoft Security Essentials? I don't have any
experience with it but wondered how it compared to AVG, Avast, etc.
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Are you a proponent of e-mail scanning?
 
FromTheRafters said:
Are you a proponent of e-mail scanning?
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It has its uses but its not that important to me. I'm more interested in
blocking spam but that's a different topic.
 
Hello, WaIIy!

You wrote on Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:44:04 -0400:

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| I tried MSE and it overtook my computer.
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Did you get anything in return? <grin>
 
Anyone here use Microsoft Security Essentials? I don't have any experience
with it but wondered how it compared to AVG, Avast, etc.
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I have been using MSE since it first became available and find it to
be excellent.

Steve
 
jch said:
It has its uses but its not that important to me. I'm more interested
in blocking spam but that's a different topic.
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AVG and Avast! free versions have e-mail scanning, AntiVir free version
and MSE do not. As e-mail scanning is not a priority for you, AntiVir is
my choice over MSE (I use Avast! free as well, but without the e-mail
scanner - e-mail scanning is almost useless).
 
jch said:
Anyone here use Microsoft Security Essentials? I don't have any experience
with it but wondered how it compared to AVG, Avast, etc.
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I've begun using it on one of my computers and set it up as a honeypot. Let's
see how good it is.
 
jch said:
Anyone here use Microsoft Security Essentials? I don't have any
experience with it but wondered how it compared to AVG, Avast, etc.
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I decided to try MSE myself. I chose to install it on my older desktop PC
with XPSP3, a 1.6GHz Intel CPU and 1 GB RAM but the CPU is only a single
core. The trial lasted about a day as MSE slowed my PC down to a crawl and
I reinstalled AVG9. With MSE it took 30sec or more to bring up IE8 and
another 30 to go to a link (any link). Other tasks such as clicking on
Start -> Settings -> Control Panel took forever. Just going into Windows
Explorer took almost 45 sec. Terribly slow. Uninstalling MSE, returning to
a previous setpoint via System Restore, and reinstalling AVG9, brought the
system back to its usual quickness. Your mileage may vary especially if you
have a multi-core CPU (eg, dual or quad) but for my system MSE completely
bogged it down.
 
I decided to try MSE myself. I chose to install it on my older desktop PC
with XPSP3, a 1.6GHz Intel CPU and 1 GB RAM but the CPU is only a single
core. The trial lasted about a day as MSE slowed my PC down to a crawl and
I reinstalled AVG9. With MSE it took 30sec or more to bring up IE8 and
another 30 to go to a link (any link). Other tasks such as clicking on
Start -> Settings -> Control Panel took forever. Just going into Windows
Explorer took almost 45 sec. Terribly slow. Uninstalling MSE, returning to
a previous setpoint via System Restore, and reinstalling AVG9, brought the
system back to its usual quickness. Your mileage may vary especially if you
have a multi-core CPU (eg, dual or quad) but for my system MSE completely
bogged it down.
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It odd how MSE seems to vary. I use MSE in real time mode on a single
processor XP system and it is does not slow anything down at all.

Steve
 
Hello, Quilljar!

You wrote on Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:03:51 +0100:

Q> I have used MSE with Win 7 64 bit since it came out and have no problems

Q> For belt and braces I have Immunet also installed.

Whats this?? Wonders /new/ bell's and whistles.
 
Immunet - AntiVirus, http://www.immunet.com/. Never heard of myself so would
wonder whether its legit.

Belt and braces - simply means to play safe by using more than one method
(each of which on their own might be sufficient). The expression takes its
origin from trousers (or "pants" for those from the US), where either a belt
or braces could be used to keep them up, so using both is being doubly safe.
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Braces? Took me a second to realize you were referring to suspenders!
:-)
 
I'm often amazed at the differences between British English and
American English. I hadn't appreciated that "braces" (British English)
were "suspenders" (American English). In the UK "suspenders" have a
slightly different meaning, referring to the things women wear to hold
up stockings.
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Nice.. I learned something today. :)
 
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