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I put Microsoft’s new free anti virus/spyware utility on my NC10 and it seems to be running nicely with no system hogging. That’s more than AVG can do. I wrote a blog post about it here. For those of you who haven’t found a free solution, this should be adequate for most.
Nice, I was aware this was on the way but didn’t know it was available. For anyone interested:
MS seems to be on the right track. Quite fast and pretty slim. Compared to AVG and Avira it runs smooth on my n110 with Win 7. AVG delayed the boot by 30s and Aviras update is just slow. Avast was also good but is a bit overkill with the interface and so on. Let us see how it goes, if it detects the dangerous stuff 🙂 Will download a test virus and check…!
[quote1254420674=snipe] Let us see how it goes, if it detects the dangerous stuff 🙂 Will download a test virus and check…![/quote1254420674]
Gulp!! Take care snipe 🙂If you are not back on the forum for a while, we will have to assume the worst
I’ve been trying it for a couple of days now, running on Vista on my NC10.
Compared with Avast it seems like it has less processor overhead, though that doesn’t seem to be noticeable during normal use.The problem I has was that MSE seems to access the hard drive a lot more than Avast and Sophos which slows some things down. This seems to affect installing programs which takes a lot longer.
The greatest annoyance for me, and this is pretty minor. Was that it disabled Windows defender which I had used to disable some programs from starting up (they no longer appear in msconfig).
Overall I had a positive experience with MSE and may well use it in the future, though I would like to see some tests of it’s malware detection/removal that isn’t just seeing if it detects the EICAR test file, and aren’t just of the older One Care.
EDIT: I’m just going to perform a clean install of Windows and install MSE onto it, as I think MSE’s disk access may have been caused by something else.
as i said on the other thread, MSE forces you to share information to microsoft, there is no option to disable it.
Fact is that we are sending personal information to the net (often not even over a secured connection). Personally I do not care to send information about detected threads if it helps to make the product better. Once you activate Windows they anyway have all details about your PC 🙂
I quite like the new MSE too, I have been an AVG/ZA user and more recently on my NC10 I (bought and) use Kaspersky KIS product. If you use MSE what do you do for a firewall?
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