MS Security Essentials is boring.
UnsteadyKen
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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Ken O'Meara
http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/
FromTheRafters
news:7k477vF...@mid.individual.net...
> 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.
What recommendations do you have for more entertaining security
software?
UnsteadyKen
> What recommendations do you have for more entertaining security
> software?
Panda Cloud has a cute tray icon and a mildly amusing video on the home
page.
http://www.cloudantivirus.com/
David H. Lipman
| I've been running MS SE
| http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
Please do not Multi-Post.
Please learn to Cross-Post to pertinent, On Topic, news groups instead.
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Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
David H. Lipman
LOL -- entertaining ?
Good security software should be boring!
nobody >
> Good security software should be boring!
Unless the SHTF... then I want some excitement!!
Dustin Cook
news:O5mdnRxm19NexkDX...@supernews.com:
> David H. Lipman wrote:
>
>> Good security software should be boring!
>
> Unless the SHTF... then I want some excitement!!
>
Maybe a dragon breathing fire down on a small town, turning everything to
ash? Or is that over the top?
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Dustin Cook [Malware Researcher]
MalwareBytes - http://www.malwarebytes.org
BugHunter - http://bughunter.it-mate.co.uk
Paul Jones
wrote:
>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.
Paul Thurrott writes on 19/10/2009 at:
http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2009/10/19/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."
Jeanette
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.