"AVG Internet Security 2011" Dec. 1st Update is PROBLEMATIC!

On January 7, 2010, Microsoft Security Essentials won the PC Advisor's Best Free Software award.

Thats recent, folks.

Now, the beta release of MSE 2 is ready for download. Its old, new, and potential future features:
Integration with windows firewall, better than the first mse including better removal capabilities, faster, an updated protection engine, protection against web-based threats and a network intrusion detection system that works on Windows Vista and Windows 7, and more.

Excuse me when I claim that MSE is the best. Its only cause its true. Though no Anti-Virus is fail proof, and different ones may catch different viruses better than others, this one seems to always come out on top. And its FREE. Whats not to like? Just saying. Don't have to save money if you don't want to. Don't have to change if you don't want to. Just recommending. Strongly lol

Aonghus said:

One wierd thing though, I somehow ended up with a McAfee desktop icon on my laptop a couple days ago, no idea where it came from. I didn't think too much of it till you said something about McAfee. I removed the program through the control panel and now I am getting the "This copy of Windows is not genuine" message...and it seems to be pretty buggy the last day or two. What the hell is going on here? Any ideas?

We are being plagued today by what I call "suckerfish" programs. These are secondary programs that come along with another program - the one you wanted to download and install. They are usually installed because a check box on one of the installer pages is checked on by default and we must take the time to carefully check to find these check boxes and uncheck them.

The McAfee suckerfish comes attached to one of the browser video add ons, I can't remember which one right now (need more coffee). I'll post an edit if it pops into my head.
EDIT: Adobe Flash - http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/515/cpsid_51559.html (mmmm - good coffee!)

Carefully uninstall all offending programs and then do a System Restore back to a date before you noticed McAfee showing up.

JMH said:

sandeep108 said:

Their forums are terrible and support consists of canned answers of uninstalling, rebooting, downloading the new installer and re-booting, besides treating you like a computer illiterate.

Now to balance the report above..

Support here where I am is excellent.
Local - yes a real person, polite & informative,caring even to the point of phoning back at a convenient time if needed.

As for the Forums. Well all Forums have their followers & complainers.

I think the poster is confused regarding the difference between the Free version of AVG and the paid version.

It is made very clear when you download the free version that you are getting a limited program and there is limited support. That's the deal peoples!

I use the Free version. I can get any "support" info I need from other web sources (like SevenForums) and I can plug the performance holes with other free programs. Works for me.

I see that according to the link to AVGs forum given earlier the problem's been fixed. I must say I'm very glad that mine seems to have updated successfully and I missed out on the drama.

That sort of thing will NOT win them customers! I bet someone's being rapped over the knuckles severely.

sandeep108 said:

That was it - strike 3/4/5 - time to dump AVG. I switched to avast! So far I have not had any major problem (other than some false positives). Subsequently I read that AVG has caused similar glitches several times - I used to lurk around the forums hoping they would improve and then stopped bothering.

MSE I believe has improved but I will still wait a while before ditching avast for now, since avast latest version 5 is much better than their old 4.8.

You can run Avast and MSE together, was posted by one of the 'Admin's and 'Super Moderators'.
Avast and MSE worked together on it.

Latest version of Avast Antivirus post #213

MSE is more if a anti-malware program with antivirus protection to replace Windows Defender, while Avast is a more dedicated antivirus program. That, and better protection since no one scanner can catch everything. MSE and Avast have been certified to work together as well.

I have been running both for several months now, no problems.

sandeep108 said:

Defender anyway is running by default.

Defender is turned off when MSE is installed, as well as AVG. Not sure about others.

Defender was generally not well thought of, MSE relaces it and is much better than Defender according to many forums.

Of coarse, run what you feel is best for you.

Yea, I am very curious about that. How come Microsoft is able to run defender but not MSE? MSE has real time protection over defender or something? Is it not okay just to have defender and firewall on a system? I know MSE is awesome, but how does it compare to Defender?