MSE + what else

What you need is sandboxie free

the dummy said:

What you need is sandboxie free

Thanks for the pointer it looks really intriguing. Seems to have a broader application than web browsing. I'll need to do more reading.
What a name though, I thought you were joking.

+1 for sandboxie. all you need is MSE and sandboxie. its almost fool-proof. run your browser in sandboxie and if anything slips by MSE, sandboxie is there to contain it. all you need to do is clean out the sandboxie container and everything will be normal again. nothing ever touch your HD.

i have MSE and planing to download avg since i dont want to renew my macAfee subscription....is that good enough people????

any suggestions

I'd say MSE and AVG are pretty much overlapping.

I'd get something that concentrated more on malware, such as Malware Bytes or Super Anti Spyware.

We can't have Avast and MSE together. I think that was because of the blog in 2009 which made a lot of confusion of Avast and MSE being compatible.

This is the blog that the Threatfire Test with MSE and Avast 5 | was referring to. As you can see, there was no follow up and no official declaration that Avast 5 can be used with MSE.

avast! blog » Greetings from Redmond

Originally, when that blog came out, people from Avast forums thought that to be the case

Avast with Microsoft Security Essentials

Then few months later, they are saying the opposite

Avast Home 4.8 or Microsoft Security essentials
Avast Home Edition as opposed to Microsoft Security Essentials

Posts from social.answers.microsoft.com said no we can't have these two together and not just Avast, other antiviruses cannot be used with MSE.

Can you run other programs with Essentials?
Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) Compatibility with 3rd party Anti-Virus

You can use MBAM, SAS, the usual stuff with MSE

I'll MCPR McAfee soon.
Thanks for the suggestions.
I'll probably be running with MSE + Malwarebytes and no site advisor.
MS appear to have got it right with MSE - we'll see.

Keeping quite a few and regular images is the other safeguard I'll be using.