Recently Been running it along with Windows Defender but Windows Defender won't turn on automaticly So should I assume I don't need Defender anymore and they contain the same protection on spyware etc? thanks
Microsoft Security Essentials
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Yes. MSE does essentially the same thing (and more) as Windows Defender, so Defender should be disabled when running MSE.
Yup, essentially a replacement. I love it, works great, low resource demand, fast, easy, auto everything. Goodby avg, mcaffee, synaptics. Every computer I fix gets this. Microsoft scored good with this one.
Still run your spybot search and destroy!
Still run your spybot search and destroy!
MS-SE turns off Defender at install. No longer needed.
Had Norton on daughters desktop and laptop while in college, after removing Norton, MS-SE found a pesky Trojan that Norton never found.
Agreed, Microsoft gets a big +1, very good free virus scanner.
Had Norton on daughters desktop and laptop while in college, after removing Norton, MS-SE found a pesky Trojan that Norton never found.
Agreed, Microsoft gets a big +1, very good free virus scanner.
I use MSE on my two Windows PCs. It seems to work flawlessly.
Have it loaded on my Dad's new HP pavilion p6680t core i5 quad with 6gb ram and windows 7 home premium 64 bit edition, and a 10 year old HP pavilion 7955 intel p4 with 1.25 gb ram and xp home...both work flawlessly with it.
I switched the 7955 to MSE from McAfee security suite and the difference is night and day . W/ McAfee it took over 4 minutes for the computer to have a browser usable for the internet. Now it takes just a minute.
If you have an older PC you should get rid of bloated security like Norton and McAfee and use MSE.
I also think the MSE complete scan is amazing at catching almost any malware or virus issue.
I switched the 7955 to MSE from McAfee security suite and the difference is night and day . W/ McAfee it took over 4 minutes for the computer to have a browser usable for the internet. Now it takes just a minute.
If you have an older PC you should get rid of bloated security like Norton and McAfee and use MSE.
I also think the MSE complete scan is amazing at catching almost any malware or virus issue.
MSE works great on mine. I guess i can dump the Defender programs now. thanks for the replies!
Originally Posted By: daves87rs
I liked it...but I noticed it was not finding stuff that it should...
What, specifically?
I liked it...but I noticed it was not finding stuff that it should...
What, specifically?
Used it for a while, worked good. Switched to Avira, and since I got a free year of Trend Micro, that's what I'm using now, and I like it. Of course having a solid state drive helps too, but I have it on my laptop as well and it works decently. Better than Norton, McAfee, etc.
Have been using Microsoft Security Essentials for a long time on our 4 computers.
No problems and it does not pole the processor like some other anti-virus software.
No problems and it does not pole the processor like some other anti-virus software.
i use microsoft and about once a month i'll run something like eset's online scanner.
its found 5 things so far that microsoft missed but 3 of the 5's were false positives
and of the other 2 one was "spyware" that got installed because i didnt uncheck a box.
and one was on a keygen that i ran sandboxed(and it didnt do anything)
this was over a several year period
its found 5 things so far that microsoft missed but 3 of the 5's were false positives
and of the other 2 one was "spyware" that got installed because i didnt uncheck a box.
and one was on a keygen that i ran sandboxed(and it didnt do anything)
this was over a several year period
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