MS Security Essentials is boring.

UnsteadyKen · External Since: Oct 19, 2009 Posts: 2

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.

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FromTheRafters · External Since: Feb 16, 2009 Posts: 78

"UnsteadyKen" wrote in message

> 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 · External Since: Oct 19, 2009 Posts: 2

FromTheRafters said...

> 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/

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David H. Lipman · External Since: Jul 04, 2003 Posts: 2245

From: "UnsteadyKen"

| 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
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David H. Lipman · External Since: Jul 04, 2003 Posts: 2245

From: "FromTheRafters"

| "UnsteadyKen" wrote in message
|
>> 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?

LOL -- entertaining ?

Good security software should be boring!

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

nobody > · External Since: Oct 19, 2009 Posts: 1

David H. Lipman wrote:

> Good security software should be boring!

Unless the SHTF... then I want some excitement!!

Dustin Cook · External Since: Jun 27, 2006 Posts: 74

"nobody >" wrote in

> 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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Paul Jones · External Since: Oct 25, 2009 Posts: 1

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:24:01 +0100, UnsteadyKen
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/micros...-securi

"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 · External Since: May 29, 2007 Posts: 5

Paul Jones wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:24:01 +0100, UnsteadyKen
> 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/micros...-securi
>
> "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."

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.