Microsoft Security Essentials vs. Kaspersky?

zrtom · 24 Jun 2009

LFB said:

Good news...

Antivirus testing outfit: Microsoft Security Essentials makes the grade
Rivals ding the free antivirus software, but AV-Test.org says it's 'very good'

Antivirus testing outfit: Microsoft Security Essentials makes the grade

That is quite encouraging!
I love it how the other AV companies find fault with it.

Nikolay · 24 Jun 2009

Thanks for the replies, I just formatted my drive and did a clean install of 7232 x64 (I was getting bored with 7201 and my files were very unorganized) and installed MSE immediately and am loving the simple interface. Microsoft is starting to get a good reputation with its stable beta software.

Dinesh · 24 Jun 2009

MSE is good and light weight but it doesn't have much features as compared to KIS 09. Im using KIS 09 on win 7 and MSE on an old win xp computer.

chrysalis · 24 Jun 2009

morro sounds like it will be nod32's biggest competitor, I am still using nod 32 2.7 on my xp box due to its lightness and my win7 still has no av as the options for it all too bloated. morro may well be the saviour for me.

Nikolay · 24 Jun 2009

After doing a full scan with MSE..

Both threats were from my XP drive.

Dixon Butz · 25 Jun 2009

MSE is not lightweight. It uses over 50mb of memory.

Dinesh · 25 Jun 2009

Dixon Butz said:

MSE is not lightweight. It uses over 50mb of memory.

oh really? could you post a screenshot of your task manager(performance tab)?

Dixon Butz · 25 Jun 2009

dinesh said:

oh really? could you post a screenshot of your task manager(performance tab)?

Already uninstalled. One entry in taskmanager was 48-55mb. Other was 5mb.

Dinesh · 25 Jun 2009

Mine looks like this:

Microsoft Security Essentials vs. Kaspersky?-capture.png

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That's lightweight.

Dixon Butz · 25 Jun 2009

dinesh said:

Mine looks like this:

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That's lightweight.

you need to show processes from all users