Has anyone tried MS security essentials?
It's a free anti virus and so far it seems great. doesn't seem to bog anything down.
It's a free anti virus and so far it seems great. doesn't seem to bog anything down.
antivirus Microsoft security essentials
- Thread starter Scott Hanna
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Dan gave me the heads up on this in light of AVG home going downhill and hogging so much resources. Its been great thus far and nearly invisible even when scanning.
I've been running for almost a year full time. It's been fantastic resourse wise and caught some viruses sitting in my server backup tars, which was surprising Avast & AVG didn't catch it. I also run it on my mom's computer which is XP with only 512 MB RAM and it took away a lot of the sluggish response that Avast seemed to create.
Lately I've been installing it as standard practice on any machine I get my mitts on that doesn't have adequate protection or has something that's resource heavy like consumer Norton or McAfee.
Lately I've been installing it as standard practice on any machine I get my mitts on that doesn't have adequate protection or has something that's resource heavy like consumer Norton or McAfee.
all of my computers had norton, mcafee, or avg. I had no problem paying for antivirus if it was something I could count on to be effective and not be a bother.
but norton and Mcafee, beside being resource hogs would constantly keep telling me it needed to do this or needed to do that, and norton screwed up one computer.
Very glad to get rid of those 2. Avg had no problems with until it kept saying i needed to update to the pay version and then say unable to connect to the site.
A good virus software should be like a good wedding DJ. They should do their job and be very effective, but we don't need to hear and see their name every moment and be reminded every moment of everything they are doing. It should just done so that the end results are what the client wants.
but norton and Mcafee, beside being resource hogs would constantly keep telling me it needed to do this or needed to do that, and norton screwed up one computer.
Very glad to get rid of those 2. Avg had no problems with until it kept saying i needed to update to the pay version and then say unable to connect to the site.
A good virus software should be like a good wedding DJ. They should do their job and be very effective, but we don't need to hear and see their name every moment and be reminded every moment of everything they are doing. It should just done so that the end results are what the client wants.
DjDennis
RIP- My Dad (2011), Sister (2013) and Mum (2017)
- microsoft...
jury is still out on this as yet
-avast
one I have used without any hassles at all
-avg
use to be good at one stage but now I will leave it alone
-kapersky
no thanks
-norton
no thanks
-others
forget it wont touch them
remember I do work for people with disabilities and if its hard or keeps poping up alerts all the time
then no thanks
jury is still out on this as yet
-avast
one I have used without any hassles at all
-avg
use to be good at one stage but now I will leave it alone
-kapersky
no thanks
-norton
no thanks
-others
forget it wont touch them
remember I do work for people with disabilities and if its hard or keeps poping up alerts all the time
then no thanks
Consumer Reports just did a big write-up on computer security. As far as free virus/malware programs, #1 was Avira and #2 was MSE. I had been using AVG so I tried Avira and MSE. I ended up going back to AVG but will probably ultimately switch to MSE.
I haven't tried MSE yet, but will next time I have a chance. I had been setting up all home, family & friend's PCs with Avast. My gig laptop has nothing, no need, it's never on the network.
Scott
Scott