Tried out MS Security Essentials
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It was crapolicious. X| It decided to turn on a bunch of services I keep set on manual or disabled. Mostly because I only use them occasionally and I like being able to get all the oomph out of my machine. Then it downloaded all kinds of updates without asking. Too many software vendors seem to think I bought my machine to exclusively run their POS software. AV companies seem to be at the head of that list. It ran okay for a few hours (2), then I shut down, then when I booted up this evening it decided to start locking things up as I ran them. After a while my poor machine (Falstaff) decided it had no stomach for booting. Had to relearn how to boot from safe mode and played software slasher for a while. It was fun ripping the roots out of some services in the registry. I got rid of more than this unhappy scatware. Stuff that just was hanging around anyway. This was on the tail of a router dying at the house here. Fortunately I had another laying about. Simultaneous to the cable box needing a reset from the company in question. (I assume the two problems were related.) Making for a busy week. Moving on to Avast. Me hearties.
_____________________________ I hate living in a cautionary tale.
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It was crapolicious. X| It decided to turn on a bunch of services I keep set on manual or disabled. Mostly because I only use them occasionally and I like being able to get all the oomph out of my machine. Then it downloaded all kinds of updates without asking. Too many software vendors seem to think I bought my machine to exclusively run their POS software. AV companies seem to be at the head of that list. It ran okay for a few hours (2), then I shut down, then when I booted up this evening it decided to start locking things up as I ran them. After a while my poor machine (Falstaff) decided it had no stomach for booting. Had to relearn how to boot from safe mode and played software slasher for a while. It was fun ripping the roots out of some services in the registry. I got rid of more than this unhappy scatware. Stuff that just was hanging around anyway. This was on the tail of a router dying at the house here. Fortunately I had another laying about. Simultaneous to the cable box needing a reset from the company in question. (I assume the two problems were related.) Making for a busy week. Moving on to Avast. Me hearties.
_____________________________ I hate living in a cautionary tale.
I had the same experience. One day it was smooth ride, the other day my computer was practically unusable with Security Essentials hogging 90% of all system resources. After that, it was bye bye Security Essentials. Now I'm thinking: buy buy Norton Internet Security. :)
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I had the same experience. One day it was smooth ride, the other day my computer was practically unusable with Security Essentials hogging 90% of all system resources. After that, it was bye bye Security Essentials. Now I'm thinking: buy buy Norton Internet Security. :)
Babant wrote:
Now I'm thinking: buy buy Norton Internet Security.
Or do you mean Bye Bye? I've had sluggish machinery when the Norton stuff was running. Not that they didn't write better stuff back in the day. I'm just not so pleased right now.
_____________________________ I've often heard of an older, wiser person passing the torch. After witnessing something like that, I'm not sure who'd want the thing.
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It was crapolicious. X| It decided to turn on a bunch of services I keep set on manual or disabled. Mostly because I only use them occasionally and I like being able to get all the oomph out of my machine. Then it downloaded all kinds of updates without asking. Too many software vendors seem to think I bought my machine to exclusively run their POS software. AV companies seem to be at the head of that list. It ran okay for a few hours (2), then I shut down, then when I booted up this evening it decided to start locking things up as I ran them. After a while my poor machine (Falstaff) decided it had no stomach for booting. Had to relearn how to boot from safe mode and played software slasher for a while. It was fun ripping the roots out of some services in the registry. I got rid of more than this unhappy scatware. Stuff that just was hanging around anyway. This was on the tail of a router dying at the house here. Fortunately I had another laying about. Simultaneous to the cable box needing a reset from the company in question. (I assume the two problems were related.) Making for a busy week. Moving on to Avast. Me hearties.
_____________________________ I hate living in a cautionary tale.
I've rebooted twice since installing MSE (on Weven/64), and I haven't noticed any problems at all.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001 -
It was crapolicious. X| It decided to turn on a bunch of services I keep set on manual or disabled. Mostly because I only use them occasionally and I like being able to get all the oomph out of my machine. Then it downloaded all kinds of updates without asking. Too many software vendors seem to think I bought my machine to exclusively run their POS software. AV companies seem to be at the head of that list. It ran okay for a few hours (2), then I shut down, then when I booted up this evening it decided to start locking things up as I ran them. After a while my poor machine (Falstaff) decided it had no stomach for booting. Had to relearn how to boot from safe mode and played software slasher for a while. It was fun ripping the roots out of some services in the registry. I got rid of more than this unhappy scatware. Stuff that just was hanging around anyway. This was on the tail of a router dying at the house here. Fortunately I had another laying about. Simultaneous to the cable box needing a reset from the company in question. (I assume the two problems were related.) Making for a busy week. Moving on to Avast. Me hearties.
_____________________________ I hate living in a cautionary tale.
Seems fine: have it installed on XP SP3, Weven 32 and 64 bit (real and vurtual) and no problems or strange services running and it updates no more or less than Avast appeared to. About time MS protected their own software.
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I've rebooted twice since installing MSE (on Weven/64), and I haven't noticed any problems at all.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001I'm running XP, SP3. "StupidDumbAndFragileIsMyWindowsXPOS" - Que the dancing penguins, Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews.
_____________________________ I've often heard of an older, wiser person passing the torch. After witnessing something like that, I'm not sure who'd want the thing.
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I had the same experience. One day it was smooth ride, the other day my computer was practically unusable with Security Essentials hogging 90% of all system resources. After that, it was bye bye Security Essentials. Now I'm thinking: buy buy Norton Internet Security. :)
I've heard a lot of bad stuff about Norton AV and the symantec we're forced to use at work which I think is related is the best piece of software for making your multi-core several-gigabyte 7200rpm PC behave like a 386 with 2MB RAM that's attempting to run windows and completely killing off any productivity.
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It was crapolicious. X| It decided to turn on a bunch of services I keep set on manual or disabled. Mostly because I only use them occasionally and I like being able to get all the oomph out of my machine. Then it downloaded all kinds of updates without asking. Too many software vendors seem to think I bought my machine to exclusively run their POS software. AV companies seem to be at the head of that list. It ran okay for a few hours (2), then I shut down, then when I booted up this evening it decided to start locking things up as I ran them. After a while my poor machine (Falstaff) decided it had no stomach for booting. Had to relearn how to boot from safe mode and played software slasher for a while. It was fun ripping the roots out of some services in the registry. I got rid of more than this unhappy scatware. Stuff that just was hanging around anyway. This was on the tail of a router dying at the house here. Fortunately I had another laying about. Simultaneous to the cable box needing a reset from the company in question. (I assume the two problems were related.) Making for a busy week. Moving on to Avast. Me hearties.
_____________________________ I hate living in a cautionary tale.
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Daniel Desormeaux wrote:
Can you post a link to the page where you can get a refund?
If this is a serious question then, no, it was "free". A free download. If this is trying to suggest that I shouldn't complain about a "free" product then I think that's bulls**t. That's like saying I shouldn't complain about the road being bumpy because it's "free". I probably wouldn't go and get my money back from Norton. Or McAfee under these circumstances either. Nor would they give it, I suspect. Those would be real, aparent dollars. But I do pay. I purchased the copy of windows. They offered this as a free add-on only to people who can check out as having a legitimate copy of windows. Ergo, they know I've paid. And they expect people who haven't paid to not be using this. They offered, I tried it, it sucked, I'm telling people, and moving on. Other people here are posting an opposite opinion. Which is fine because it didn't suck for them. And I pay MS every day with verbal and other support of their other products. That's "free" advertising and support to them. Except it isn't since they've given me good, and in many cases excellent products. So I speak highly of them in that regard. All of their products exist on a continuum from Excellent to Suckorific. Or perhaps a continuum from MS-Excel to MS-Outlook. I'm certainly not going to get a refund on the hours I spent on the problem. So I can't post that location either. Nor could I post the page where I could get my money back from buying windows were I so inclined. They won't give me my money back.
_____________________________ I've often heard of an older, wiser person passing the torch. After witnessing something like that, I'm not sure who'd want the thing.
