Microsoft Security Essentials, free Antivirus
#41
Sanest Florida Man
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yeah I was wondering the same. I can't find it, this is a beta so they may add this later, I hope. That's the only thing I don't like about it.
It just found another instance of the same exploit but in a different temp file. I'm gonna do a full scan and see what else it finds.
It just found another instance of the same exploit but in a different temp file. I'm gonna do a full scan and see what else it finds.
#42
What Would Don Draper Do?
It's built off of the same AV engine as Live One Care and Forefront and they've been ranking pretty good on the AV comparatives test. Also it's much less of a resource hog compared to AVG and you don't have to deal with being harassed to upgrade to the pay version since there is no pay version and you don't have to get a license key and renew it every year.
#43
The sizzle in the Steak
^^ I thought I was out of my mind for not finding a "log"....but I guess it's not there.
You would think that would be a very simple "must have" feature
You would think that would be a very simple "must have" feature
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#44
Sanest Florida Man
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#45
I'm the Firestarter
I'm installing this to test, has anyone seen a comprehensive review yet, where they compare against AVG and others to see which one found/removed more threats?
Is the x64 installer separate or can you use the same one?
Is the x64 installer separate or can you use the same one?
#46
Sanest Florida Man
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x64 is separate. It uses the same detection engine and definitions as Live one care and forefront so in regards to that it should be the same. So I think just the UI and some features are "beta" but the main part not so much.
#47
Sanest Florida Man
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Again here's the AV comparatives report and you'll see MS has the lowest amount of false positives than the others and the 2nd best proactive test results.
But here's the main jist of if it:
![](https://img504.imageshack.us/img504/9939/capturezsv.png)
![](https://img229.imageshack.us/img229/3208/capture1c.png)
![](https://img222.imageshack.us/img222/39/capture2t.png)
![](https://img6.imageshack.us/img6/7207/capture3j.png)
http://av-comparatives.org/images/st...c_report22.pdf
But here's the main jist of if it:
![](https://img504.imageshack.us/img504/9939/capturezsv.png)
![](https://img229.imageshack.us/img229/3208/capture1c.png)
![](https://img222.imageshack.us/img222/39/capture2t.png)
![](https://img6.imageshack.us/img6/7207/capture3j.png)
http://av-comparatives.org/images/st...c_report22.pdf
#49
Three Wheelin'
#50
Sanest Florida Man
Thread Starter
Security Essentials is now Final and available now for download. This is a highly recommended AV over AVG or avast!. What do you guys think that've been running it for a while? I've been very happy with it. It just runs discretely in the background and doesn't bother unless it finds something. It's extremely lightweight, I can't notice any performance degradation after installing this AV. Check it out!
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
#51
Wow, that's going to hurt a lot of AV companies. The 3rd party AV suites are going to have to move more towards businesses, since it looks like this is geared to the home user and won't offer a lot of control for a domain or other centralized network.
#52
The sizzle in the Steak
Security Essentials is now Final and available now for download. This is a highly recommended AV over AVG or avast!. What do you guys think that've been running it for a while? I've been very happy with it. It just runs discretely in the background and doesn't bother unless it finds something. It's extremely lightweight, I can't notice any performance degradation after installing this AV. Check it out!
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
Props to MS
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#53
The sizzle in the Steak
Security Essentials is now Final and available now for download. This is a highly recommended AV over AVG or avast!. What do you guys think that've been running it for a while? I've been very happy with it. It just runs discretely in the background and doesn't bother unless it finds something. It's extremely lightweight, I can't notice any performance degradation after installing this AV. Check it out!
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
EDIT:
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#54
Sanest Florida Man
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Well first you should update to build 1.0.1500. Which you should've gotten a notification to do a few weeks ago. If you've done that then you can just go to the site and down load it again and it's a quick update. I tried to run the "check for upgrade" program manually from the AV program itself but it said I was still using the most current version so I guess it's not live on the update server yet. So I just downloaded from the link and did it myself.
#55
The sizzle in the Steak
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#57
The sizzle in the Steak
#58
What Would Don Draper Do?
Security Essentials is now Final and available now for download. This is a highly recommended AV over AVG or avast!. What do you guys think that've been running it for a while? I've been very happy with it. It just runs discretely in the background and doesn't bother unless it finds something. It's extremely lightweight, I can't notice any performance degradation after installing this AV. Check it out!
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
i was just gonna ask that since i reformmated my computer the other night and need to download an AV software.
#60
Big Block go VROOOM!
#61
Lamborghini Aventador FTW
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Here is a more recent test by that same company for On-demand protection and on-demand scan speed. MS doesn't fair as well in this test. In this report, they test MS Live Care which I believe is the business version of MSE.
http://av-comparatives.org/images/st...c_report23.pdf
http://av-comparatives.org/images/st...c_report23.pdf
#63
The sizzle in the Steak
#65
Sanest Florida Man
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For one it doesn't fucking talk to you! Literally! No annoying notifications every time the "virus database has been updated" or when it's doing a system scan. The only time it pops up anything is if it finds something, other than that it's completely silent. It doesn't expire, there's no 1 year license that you have to renew every year, there's no nagging ads trying to get you to upgrade to the pay version. there is no pay version. It uses less resources and has virtually no noticeable impact on system performance.
#66
Sanest Florida Man
Thread Starter
Ars Technica has a good article about it. It pretty much says everything I've said, it rocks!
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/new...-impresses.ars
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/new...-impresses.ars
#68
S E L L
I've been running it for several months and it's been working great!
It's caught several trojans trying to sneak in while browsing random sites and it doesn't eat up resources. Fast scans, runs very light and I install it in any machine I work on now.
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#70
Sanest Florida Man
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no it doesn't. Doesn't most consumer oriented email services offering email scanning? Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! do. I guess that would be important to small businesses that run their own exchange server, though myself in 10 years I've never received a virus via any of my email addresses so it's not important to me.
#71
Big Block go VROOOM!
Now that I think about it though, I wonder if MSE would protect against Javascript and ActiveX malware in HTML email messages. Seems plausible as long as you're using a Microsoft app for a mail client. Don't Outlook and Live Mail essentially use the IE rendering engine at their core?
I also wonder what the official party line going to be with Windows Defender. I can't see how they could pull the plug on that and tell everyone to go get MSE since you can run Defender as an anti-malware app independent of any virus protection that's installed.
I also wonder what the official party line going to be with Windows Defender. I can't see how they could pull the plug on that and tell everyone to go get MSE since you can run Defender as an anti-malware app independent of any virus protection that's installed.
#72
Sanest Florida Man
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The update is live on the upgrade server. so if you're using the beta and haven't upgraded yet you can click the down arrow next to help and choose "upgrade Security Essentials"
#73
Sanest Florida Man
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Now that I think about it though, I wonder if MSE would protect against Javascript and ActiveX malware in HTML email messages. Seems plausible as long as you're using a Microsoft app for a mail client. Don't Outlook and Live Mail essentially use the IE rendering engine at their core?
I also wonder what the official party line going to be with Windows Defender. I can't see how they could pull the plug on that and tell everyone to go get MSE since you can run Defender as an anti-malware app independent of any virus protection that's installed.
I also wonder what the official party line going to be with Windows Defender. I can't see how they could pull the plug on that and tell everyone to go get MSE since you can run Defender as an anti-malware app independent of any virus protection that's installed.
#74
Big Block go VROOOM!
If they truly intend MSE to replace defender then they're absolutely setting themselves up to be sued in one capacity or another. Defender can exist an be run just fine alongside most any other antivirus application. MSE, as they state, should not be run alongside anything else and it includes antivirus protection. It's also free. Seems like a no-brainer for anti-competitive behavior to me.
#75
Sanest Florida Man
Thread Starter
no. it replaces defender in Vista and 7 cause MSE is a superset of defender and has all of it's features. It won't come included in 7 though. I wish it would but they can't. Why is it ok to include defender but not ok to include MSE? Snow Leopard comes with an included malware scanner why not windows? windows needs it more than OS X does
#76
I shave my change purse
If anyone want to check that their Virus Scanner is working like it should, here is a link where you can get SAFE fake virus files to test. I use them all the time.
http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm
Some info on the file: http://www.microsoft.com/security/po...tid=2147519003
I just tested MSE and it caught it no problem.
http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm
Some info on the file: http://www.microsoft.com/security/po...tid=2147519003
I just tested MSE and it caught it no problem.
#77
Sanest Florida Man
Thread Starter
yeah that's pretty standard. I think all AVs are made to pass that test
#78
What Would Don Draper Do?
downloaded it last night, and as stunna said, i'm surprised by how quietly it runs.
the quick scans are actually quick, and they don't take up too much memory.
thanks again.
the quick scans are actually quick, and they don't take up too much memory.
thanks again.
#79
Someone stole "My Garage"
I d/l'd it last night on the Vista laptop and it installed no problem. Went to install it on my XP desktop and it passed the Genuine validation, but I had forgot to uninstall AVG, so I cancelled out of the MSE install, uninstalled AVG, and then upon trying to install MSE, this time it DIDN'T pass the Windows Genuine Validation. ARGH. My copy of XP is actually legit, too! I can't see why it'd have passed the first time, and not any subsequent time. Pisses me off.
But the copy on the Vista machine seems good and I'll just run AVG on the XP machine again. I kinda would like to run MSE on the desktop too but I guess that isn't in the cards yet.
But the copy on the Vista machine seems good and I'll just run AVG on the XP machine again. I kinda would like to run MSE on the desktop too but I guess that isn't in the cards yet.
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I downloaded, installed and used MSE on my Vista laptop last night with no issues, but the laptop also has Kaspersky Antivirus, Ad Aware and Spybot S&D on it. I generally manually run each program separately, although Kaspersky and Spybot are also real-time.