Microsoft Security Essentials.
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I'll jump on the bandwagon as well, never had a problem using MSE, Norton on the other hand was a complete fustercluck! X|
Norton used to make good diagnostic tools (back in the early PC days). I used them all-the-time. Then they got into this self-feeding AV market. I think it started out with the purpose of fixing problems, now it's just a business. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if they actually create many of the threats that they "solve" with their product!
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ErrolErrol wrote:
do a manual update lookup several times
Is there anyway to automate something like that? I usually only update every second blue moon and then only if I remember.
ErrolErrol wrote:
un a full scan EVERY day and I wait anxiously
I do that once in a while; every third blue moon. Maybe I'm too lax in my approach.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
MSE has a command line interface: mpcmdrun.exe -Scan -ScanType 1 -SignatureUpdate is the command I use. I have the Windows Task Scheduler set to run this 15 minutes after startup and if there is a network connection available. You will have to change the path depending on the version of Windows and MSE/Defender you have. All paths will be under C:\Program Files"
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Roger Wright wrote:
I haven't used anything else since it became free, and haven't had any problems at all. The real horrors out there are Norton and McAfee, as I've had many experiences of those products completely destroying a Windows machine. Unless something drastically changes, I won't be wasting money on AV products ever again. As someone else pointed out, the big players are, in fact, viruses themselves that manage somehow to convince victims to pay for them.
Interesting you should call the AV products "viruses". I've used MSE for years and it works just fine. OTOH I've seen more systems bogged down with Norton and McAfee than I can count. The amount of memory and resource those products take and the yearly "subscription". Too bad. Back in the early PC days, I used Norton Tools to fix all kinds of problems. Norton got to be "too big for their britches" I guess. Offhand, my thought has been for years that they've created a "self eating water melon". I think the AV industry actually creates these things then sells products to get rid of them. I don't have any proof of that, but I've seen enough corruption in business to think just that.
CodeBubba wrote:
they've created a "self eating water melon"
I can't disagree. Perhaps they once were viable products, but now they're intrusive, performance-shackling nightmares that are as likely to destroy a machine as the very threat they are ostensibly designed to fight. MSE works great, and I'll be sticking with it for a long time to come. It's probably the only product Microsoft has gotten right since Windows 2000.
Will Rogers never met me.
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MSE has a command line interface: mpcmdrun.exe -Scan -ScanType 1 -SignatureUpdate is the command I use. I have the Windows Task Scheduler set to run this 15 minutes after startup and if there is a network connection available. You will have to change the path depending on the version of Windows and MSE/Defender you have. All paths will be under C:\Program Files"
Thank you. I will try it later this morning.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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CodeBubba wrote:
they've created a "self eating water melon"
I can't disagree. Perhaps they once were viable products, but now they're intrusive, performance-shackling nightmares that are as likely to destroy a machine as the very threat they are ostensibly designed to fight. MSE works great, and I'll be sticking with it for a long time to come. It's probably the only product Microsoft has gotten right since Windows 2000.
Will Rogers never met me.
Roger Wright wrote:
I can't disagree. Perhaps they once were viable products, but now they're intrusive, performance-shackling nightmares that are as likely to destroy a machine as the very threat they are ostensibly designed to fight. MSE works great, and I'll be sticking with it for a long time to come. It's probably the only product Microsoft has gotten right since Windows 2000.
Well, I wouldn't take it quite that far! MS has come out with some excellent stuff: VS2008, SQL Server 2008, Office 2003, Windows 7: all of 'em are really excellent and I've built my systems around them. Yes, MSE is an excellent no-fuss system - it's always worked and doesn't bog the machines down. Norton & McAfee - It's too bad they went the way they did. I won't touch either of them again and always pull them off machines I configure.