USB3.0 Hard Drives Keep Self Ejecting

You are an IT specialist and don't believe in AVs and UAC?

TechXero if your happy I'm happy.

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TechXero said:

...Tell me, what's the use of UAC if you can just hit ok n ignore it anyway ? Clients I forget to disable UAC for, keep calling back and complaining about how annoying it is, and ask me to teach them how to disable it. It's the worst thing on earth...

The purpose of UAC is to let you know a program is about to be started. If malware should try to open a program, UAC will alert you to that and prevent the program from starting unless you intervene. It takes all of one or, maybe, two seconds to click on YES (not OK, btw). That one second delay is nowhere close to the worst thing on Earth and is a cheap price to the extra security UAC provides.

I give up. Maybe it's a language barrier but you just aren't getting it.

meebers said:

When Lady F said " MSE has consistently ranked as the worst AV in AV reviews for well over a year now" Do you have a link to that, I want to read it. MSE has not given me any problems.

For starters:

Goodbye Microsoft Security Essentials: Microsoft Now Recommends You Use a Third-Party Antivirus

AV-TEST - The Independent IT-Security Institute: Jul/Aug 2013

AV-TEST - The Independent IT-Security Institute: Jan/Feb 2014

Microsoft Security Essentials Fails Certification Again

My own experiences reflects the above. During the six months I used MSE, I never could get it to automatically download definitions; I had to do it manually. MBAM was frequently picking up viruses that MSE was letting through. In short, it was a joke. MSE had excellent ratings its first year or so, but has plummeted since then.

TechXero said:

I own 2 USB3.0 external drives, one is an Apacer 500gb drive the other is a WD elements 2tb drive. When am copying files to one of them the other self ejects then re-mounts itself out of the blue. And other times the drive I am copying to self ejects then re-mounts resulting in corrupt files.

Back to the original topic.....is Windows 8.1 updated? Windows 8 provides native USB3.0 drivers, and I'm wondering if the Fresco drivers - installed on Windows 8? - might be conflicting with the native USB3.0 drivers?