Anti Virus Suggestions ?

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  1. Posts : 908
    Vista Home Premium x86 SP2
       #11

    Do you want to use MSE?


    Hello!

    Do you want to use MSE? I certainly love it! If you want to give it another try, please run the batch file attached, and then try to re-install it again. Please uninstall MSE when the prompt appears to do so, and then try to re-install it.

    Thanks!

    Richard
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  2. Posts : 9
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit
       #12

    Well I had McAfee for some years, but unless you have a powerful computer, you will experience some slowing down to your computer's performance. So, I uninstalled Mcafee and I installed the free version of Avast. Although it is free, it can compete with the others and sometimes beat them. It has a very fast scanning and it is very easy to use in contrast with Mcafee which has so many different settings to adjust. The only drawback is that it doesn't offer a firewall (in the free version only) but the one provided by Microsoft (already installed with Windows) is a very nice one and with some tweaking you can have it run just perfectly! So, give it a try to Avast it is a really a nice choice!
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  3. Posts : 542
    Windows 7 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #13

    From OP: Followup


    Hi,

    Thanks again, everyone.

    I've been thinking about my problem with MS Security Essentials, and seem to remember that it was related, somehow, to my not have MS Live Essentials installed.
    I tried Live Essentials once, and it caused all sorts of problems, so removed it.

    I think that Security Essentials requires Live Essentials also.

    No way I will ever use Live Essentials again.

    Anyway, now have Avast free going, and all seems fine.

    So, again thanks to all for all the help.
    Really appreciated.
    Nice of everyone to take the time to help me out.

    Bob
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  4. Posts : 908
    Vista Home Premium x86 SP2
       #14

    Robert11 said:
    Hi,

    Thanks again, everyone.

    I've been thinking about my problem with MS Security Essentials, and seem to remember that it was related, somehow, to my not have MS Live Essentials installed.
    I tried Live Essentials once, and it caused all sorts of problems, so removed it.

    I think that Security Essentials requires Live Essentials also.

    No way I will ever use Live Essentials again.

    Anyway, now have Avast free going, and all seems fine.

    So, again thanks to all for all the help.
    Really appreciated.
    Nice of everyone to take the time to help me out.

    Bob
    You are more than welcome Bob, but really Live Essentials should not affect it. Anyway, +1 for not using Live Essentials! It must be one of the first updates I hide.
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  5. Posts : 10
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
       #15

    I installed AVG free Anti-virus and it started doing strange things to my pc and uninstalled it and went back to using MSE but I am still finding bits of AVG on my pc. Here is a direct link to Microsoft to download Microsoft Security Essentials: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=e1605e70-9649-4a87-8532-33d813687a7f you could also try downloading and installing Malwarebytes Anti-Malware from this link:Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware: Malwarebytes (For some reason this address has not been highlighted? so just type into your address bar) the free version dosnt offer realtime protection but it is well worth scanning your pc with it, you can run it with any other security sofware you have installed.
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  6. Posts : 568
    Win7 x64 Ultimate SP1
       #16

    Bob, Live Essentials is NOT needed for MSE. But you should track down the problem of MSE not loading before adding any other AV. Once it's working you can uninstall it and try something else.

    Ken
    Last edited by ken9122; 30 Oct 2010 at 23:00.
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  7. Posts : 11,424
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64
       #17

    Robert11,
    I will throw Trend Micro into the mix. It's what I've settled on for the last 3 years and I've been happy and virus free. Many good choices and like discussing politics it will bring forth all sorts of opinions. The best AV is the one you'll take the time to learn and use. I run scans daily as TM is fairly light and I don't see a performance drop. Good luck and here's to being malware and virus free !
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  8. Posts : 8,383
    Windows 10 Pro x64, Arch Linux
       #18

    linnemeyerhere said:
    Robert11,
    I will throw Trend Micro into the mix. It's what I've settled on for the last 3 years and I've been happy and virus free. Many good choices and like discussing politics it will bring forth all sorts of opinions. The best AV is the one you'll take the time to learn and use. I run scans daily as TM is fairly light and I don't see a performance drop. Good luck and here's to being malware and virus free !
    TM is a very well know BSOD causer on some Windows 7 systems
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  9. Posts : 3,028
    Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) SP1
       #19

    yowanvista said:
    linnemeyerhere said:
    Robert11,
    I will throw Trend Micro into the mix. It's what I've settled on for the last 3 years and I've been happy and virus free. Many good choices and like discussing politics it will bring forth all sorts of opinions. The best AV is the one you'll take the time to learn and use. I run scans daily as TM is fairly light and I don't see a performance drop. Good luck and here's to being malware and virus free !
    TM is a very well know BSOD causer on some Windows 7 systems
    And consistently scores very low on most reputable AV testing comparison results
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  10. Posts : 11,990
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
       #20

    yowanvista said:
    linnemeyerhere said:
    Robert11,
    I will throw Trend Micro into the mix. It's what I've settled on for the last 3 years and I've been happy and virus free. Many good choices and like discussing politics it will bring forth all sorts of opinions. The best AV is the one you'll take the time to learn and use. I run scans daily as TM is fairly light and I don't see a performance drop. Good luck and here's to being malware and virus free !
    TM is a very well know BSOD causer on some Windows 7 systems
    +1 Good post.
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