Microsoft Security Essentials Gaining More Users

I used to pay for a Nod32/E-Set subscription, but I have been using MSE for a little more than a year now, and it has been absolutely perfect. I install MSE on all my clients PC's when I return them if they have no preexisting antivirus on their system.

Highly recommend.
 
MavericK96 said:
MSE is probably the least intrusive/resource intensive AV that I've used and it seems to work just fine. Highly recommend it.
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Same here. When combined with Windows 7, I've had very little problems with viruses.

I use the Enterprise version at the office, and it significantly cut the number of infections I have to seadl with compared to the older version of Norton we where running.
I have seen a few things slip through, but the software ends up catching some part of the virus, and I've then been able to manually clean the system.
 
Use to use ESET then after 2.7 it started getting bloated and malware started getting trickier. Discovered Comodo with HIPS and have been using it since. I recommend MSE though on all client installs because its simple effective and non-intrusive for non tech oriented people.
 
Avira Free. the only thing MSE does is accuse my loader as a virus, which is obviously not but i understand their position :p
 
Been using it since the first beta release - haven't had a problem since. I put it on all of my systems and computers of family members/friends. Good stuff for sure - although more recently I do use it in combination with Malwarebytes just for an extra layer just in case.

No problems whatsoever.
 
MavericK96 said:
MSE is probably the least intrusive/resource intensive AV that I've used and it seems to work just fine. Highly recommend it.
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How many virus's did it stop your PC getting infected from? Right, none, so you have no clue how effective it really is.
 
GoldenTiger said:
I don't care what some random youtube guy claims when I have seen in-depth testing done and know the actuality...
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Once again. you never even watched the video. That is mighty ignorant of you because if you had you would see he does testing of AV apps too. In his tests MSSE failed to detect zero day exploits that Avast and Comodo did catch.

I also said I am using MSSE on two of my five PCs so I have no vested interest to bad mouth MSSE. Just stating the facts and not being an ostrich with its head in the sand like you.
 
D4rkn3ss said:
Avira Free. the only thing MSE does is accuse my loader as a virus, which is obviously not but i understand their position :p
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I used Avira for years and still have it on one PC but that AV has detected more false positives than any AV I have ever used. It gets really annoying when you have to double check a file to make sure it is a false positive and not a legit virus. I got so used to Avira claiming game files are a virus when they are not I just assume any virus it claims to find is a false positive. Good way to annoy the customer and waste hours of their time checking for false positives. Average users would just let the AV app quarantine the file and then have their PC or games messed up due to a false positive.
 
Apathy said:
I used to pay for a Nod32/E-Set subscription, but I have been using MSE for a little more than a year now, and it has been absolutely perfect. I install MSE on all my clients PC's when I return them if they have no preexisting antivirus on their system.

Highly recommend.
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On Win8 you won't have to do that because MSSE comes pre-installed.
 
If people are so concerned about security why aren't you all using the Guest account whenever you are connected to the internet? I bet none of you do that and yet it is the most secure way to run your Windows Vista/Win7 PC.
 
kontact said:
Once again. you never even watched the video. That is mighty ignorant of you because if you had you would see he does testing of AV apps too. In his tests MSSE failed to detect zero day exploits that Avast and Comodo did catch.

I also said I am using MSSE on two of my five PCs so I have no vested interest to bad mouth MSSE. Just stating the facts and not being an ostrich with its head in the sand like you.
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The video you link to has fewer than 7000 views, is 4 months old, and reviews a beta version of MSSE 4. Why does LanGuy have more cred than any other random YouTube guy?

In his other videos, which are so long I skipped through them very hastily so my information is admittedly incomplete, he seems to use Kingsoft, which I gather uses a cloud. Don't cloud AVs need an internet connection to work? And if they do, what happens when their servers are down?

By pointing to LanGuy, were you saying that Kingsoft is good at blocking zero day exploits? I don't think I've got a straight answer as to what is good at doing that yet.

I hope you won't take this as personally dissing you; I'm just asking questions, which is what people who don't have their heads in the sand do.
 
MSE is the only AV I put on my computer or any of my friends computers that I maintain for them. That and Malewarebytes if necessary.
 
kontact said:
If people are so concerned about security why aren't you all using the Guest account whenever you are connected to the internet? I bet none of you do that and yet it is the most secure way to run your Windows Vista/Win7 PC.
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If people were really concerned about security, they wouldn't be touching any variant of Windows, period.

Linux and UNIX ftw.
 
As I say to my customers, viruses are like cracked windscreens, if its gonna happen its gonna happen. You can go years without one and then 'bang' two in a row etc.

Essentially with most infections being 'drive-bys' there is little you can do to stop those. The code is written daily by the gangs and thanks to all AV software being free or free for 30 days trials then its easy to test against. Bang out the code to the hijacked sites (usually sites frequented by affluent less technical users aged over 40) and hope to see how many bites you get in the 24 hours till its time to re-write or the site gets taken down.

I have seen all AV software beaten by these.
 
Red Falcon said:
If people were really concerned about security, they wouldn't be touching any variant of Windows, period.

Linux and UNIX ftw.
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Sure, that's why the Linux kernel had a security hole for YEARS before it got fixed. The fact very few are interested in attacking Linux users is its real savior and not because it is invulnerable to security holes.
 
kontact said:
Sure, that's why the Linux kernel had a security hole for YEARS before it got fixed. The fact very few are interested in attacking Linux users is its real savior and not because it is invulnerable to security holes.
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:rolleyes:

Also, no OS is invulnerable to security holes, that goes for every OS in existence, so I'm note quite sure why that's a problem with Linux specifically.
 
kontact said:
I used Avira for years and still have it on one PC but that AV has detected more false positives than any AV I have ever used. It gets really annoying when you have to double check a file to make sure it is a false positive and not a legit virus. I got so used to Avira claiming game files are a virus when they are not I just assume any virus it claims to find is a false positive. Good way to annoy the customer and waste hours of their time checking for false positives. Average users would just let the AV app quarantine the file and then have their PC or games messed up due to a false positive.
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did you manually set heuristics to high or messed/selected apps or * in the categories? if so, its only you to blame for that ^^
 
Everyone would use it if they knew about it but they can't put it in with windows or the communistic laws in this country will have them in court for anti-trust.
 
Can't edit but you see Arvast/Mcafee etc are entitled to make a profit.
 
ZoNe said:
Everyone would use it if they knew about it but they can't put it in with windows or the communistic laws in this country will have them in court for anti-trust.
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Oh, yes they can. Windows 8 will ship with MSSE included and on by default.
 
Red Falcon said:
:rolleyes:

Also, no OS is invulnerable to security holes, that goes for every OS in existence, so I'm note quite sure why that's a problem with Linux specifically.
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You are reading my post out of context. The fact all OS are vulnerable was EXACTLY my point. You [H] users are not the sharpest tacks in the box. :p
 
ZoNe said:
Everyone would use it if they knew about it but they can't put it in with windows or the communistic laws in this country will have them in court for anti-trust.
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Then why is it pre-installed with Win8?
 
Aluisious said:
Reading for those who are not arrogant dopes:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft...-windows-7-deemed-less-secure-than-vista/1898
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So bump the default UAC setting to the Vista default. Problem solved. The old Microsoft would have made UAC and never turned it on, or turned it completely off in 7 after people complained. We were told that lowering it would lower security, yet people wanted it, so they made a compromise to not completely lose all the benefits. That's fair.
 
Nice, 1 of my 2 computers has MSE on it (the one running 64-bit Win 7). The other is a 32-bit Win XP PC that has McAfee, which is a CPU hog when it runs its scans. : \ Once that computer gets replaced (waiting for Win 8), you can bet I'll have MSE running on it.
 
kontact said:
You are reading my post out of context. The fact all OS are vulnerable was EXACTLY my point. You [H] users are not the sharpest tacks in the box. :p
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Once again, speak for yourself. 25 days and you say that? That tells me enough about you to avoid your opinions.
 
Ryokurin said:
So bump the default UAC setting to the Vista default. Problem solved. The old Microsoft would have made UAC and never turned it on, or turned it completely off in 7 after people complained. We were told that lowering it would lower security, yet people wanted it, so they made a compromise to not completely lose all the benefits. That's fair.
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Yeah, I did that. The fact that it's low by default and there's no indication of it unless you go digging is a failure.

You know those cars with keyless fobs that open when you walk near them and start? Win 7 is like that, except MS figured that people forget the fob too much, so they made it where anyone being near the car unlocks it. You can re-enable the lock by pressing buttons on the car stereo, though :p

Imagine what a story that would be.
 
Plus, I got a virus after I jacked UAC to the highest setting anyway. Never did get a virus on Vista, which I used until late last year.
 
There's nothing like hearing a person complain about getting malware (Drive by Javascript or otherwise) when they claim to have A/V... only to find out it's a 4 year out of date version of Mcaffee or Norton, because they didn't want to pay for the new versions... ugh. I make sure all out office machines now have MSE rather then the Trend Micro that Dell puts on everything.
 
The only thing they changed was dropping UAC notifications when windows settings were changed. And UAC does not mean a thing if you OK everything without realizing what it means. As someone else said earlier, it just sounds like you made a mistake and chose to blame windows, or just don't know what you are doing.
 
didn't microsoft buy mcafee? shouldn't they be trying to push that instead?
 
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