Microsoft Security Essentials

Published on October 5, 2009 By Savyg In Personal Computing

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I've been using this since the beta opened up...there's no chance of me using a different antivirus product.

Now that it's a public release...what's everyone else think?

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Savyg

on Oct 09, 2009

CobraA1

reply 30

Other AV solutions have been driving me crazy with false positives and bogging down computers. Especially AVG's "link scanner" stuff, which frankly I had to turn off to make the Internet bearable. When it expires, I'm likely not to renew and just use this.

Yeah I stopped using AVG before my sub expired. It installed too much junk and the firewall is easy to use, but too often breaks things.

Bleh.

starkers

on Oct 09, 2009

Savyg

reply 31

Quoting CobraA1, reply 30Other AV solutions have been driving me crazy with false positives and bogging down computers. Especially AVG's "link scanner" stuff, which frankly I had to turn off to make the Internet bearable. When it expires, I'm likely not to renew and just use this.

Yeah I stopped using AVG before my sub expired. It installed too much junk and the firewall is easy to use, but too often breaks things.

Bleh.

My sister and other family members were using AVG and found performance was lagging due to junk and hits on system resources. I put them on to Avast and they've been happy since... but I'm going to check out Microsoft Security Essential to see if we'd be better served by it. The idea of spynet might bother some, but it don't deter us any....

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