After doing a lot of reading about MS Security Essentials I have made a decision to test my Win7 HD and have removed all Virus Software and installed MS Security Essentials. IE8 is showing Protected Mode is ON as well as Popup Blocker.
Iggy
Update Sat Dec 12, 2009
I have now been running MSE for over a day with no issues or problems.
Windows Firewall is blocking all incoming pinging from China and Korea. lol
I have tested many all my ports, firwall etc and all are blocked.
I have IE Prtected Mode ON and thats it.
I have visited many sites and received email with attachments and MSE has done the job 100%
Like other say common sense plays a big factor in not getting slammed.
So for now I will continue and keep you posted on any hard that comes to my OS and HD. If you have any questions or suggestions please jump right in.
Any bad sites you want me to test?
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Self Built OS: Windows 10 Pro CPU: Intel i5 Motherboard: I have a fatherboard Memory: I'm old and lost a few chips Graphics Card: Yup Sound Card: Yup Monitor(s) Displays: Samsung 32" UHD Screen Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Keyboard: Who needs a keyboard? Mouse: Logitech Laser G7 wireless PSU: 450 Watt and some fans that blow Case: Small tower Cooling: Yes I am cool. lol Hard Drives: Samsung 860 EVO drives Internet Speed: Zippy fast UP and DOWN Browser: The new Improved EDGE 2020 Antivirus: I got a shot
Well today I decided to really put MSE to the test. I installed Limewire and tried to download the nastiest stuff I could find on the web. Microsoft Secuirty Essentials monitored every download and as soon as it found a virus or whatever within it stopped the download and told me what it was and what it planned to do with it. I continued with afew more downloads until it said that they have been quantineened but to tryly get rid of what I have I needed to reboot.
I did a reboot and all went well and all was good again.
I also ran Malwarebytes, Search & Destroy, Hitman Pro and a few others.
After that I used Win7 Image recovery with my recovery disk and in less than 10 minutes I was back to a full clean refreshed HD.
This test gave me a little more confidence in MSE. It works great and I do believ it runs smoother in less memory than all the rest.
Anyone else have any okace you want me to test it at. Just PM me the location.
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Self Built OS: Windows 10 Pro CPU: Intel i5 Motherboard: I have a fatherboard Memory: I'm old and lost a few chips Graphics Card: Yup Sound Card: Yup Monitor(s) Displays: Samsung 32" UHD Screen Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Keyboard: Who needs a keyboard? Mouse: Logitech Laser G7 wireless PSU: 450 Watt and some fans that blow Case: Small tower Cooling: Yes I am cool. lol Hard Drives: Samsung 860 EVO drives Internet Speed: Zippy fast UP and DOWN Browser: The new Improved EDGE 2020 Antivirus: I got a shot
Iggy:
Same setup as you, have been using MSE and only MSE since it's early release. Quite please will small foot print and low system resource consumption. UAC set to default (recommended) nothing else. But unfortunately I like one of the other posters here, haven't had a virus since Monkey B, back on a very early install of Win95. Just thought I'd let you know that you're not the only canary in the coal mine.
System Manufacturer/Model Number: PartsIsParts OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit CPU: Intel Pentium D 3Ghz Motherboard: ASRock G31M-S Memory: 4 Gigs PC 6400 Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT Sound Card: Realtek High Definition Audio Integrated Monitor(s) Displays: AOC 19inch X2 Screen Resolution: 1024 X 768 (I'm Old) Keyboard: Generic Made in China Mouse: Logitech USB Optical Scroll PSU: 500 watt..don't know mfg. Case: Giant Black 4u rackmount I've had for years Cooling: Stock CPU extra 120s in case Hard Drives: Segate ST3160815AS Serial ATAII
Western Digital WD1600AAJA-75PSA0 Serial ATAII Internet Speed: What ever comcast decides to give me usually 21Mbps up/5mbps
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Bruce ... somewhere in his 40's OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit SP1 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.40GHz, 2400 MHz Motherboard: INTEL/D975XBX2 Memory: 4 GB Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro Monitor(s) Displays: Samsung SyncMaster 914v Screen Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Keyboard: Standard PS/2 Keyboard Mouse: Microsoft PS/2 Mouse PSU: Rocketfish 700 W Case: G.Skill Gigabyte Chassis Hard Drives: 2/500GB each ... ST3500630AS ATA Device.
One is not connected Internet Speed: DSL Browser: IE 11 Antivirus: Avira Internet Security Other Info: ATI HDMI Audio
I have noticed that Microsoft has been updating MSE definitions multiple times a day.
That's great and tell me they have a group that is trying to stay on top of things.
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Self Built OS: Windows 10 Pro CPU: Intel i5 Motherboard: I have a fatherboard Memory: I'm old and lost a few chips Graphics Card: Yup Sound Card: Yup Monitor(s) Displays: Samsung 32" UHD Screen Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Keyboard: Who needs a keyboard? Mouse: Logitech Laser G7 wireless PSU: 450 Watt and some fans that blow Case: Small tower Cooling: Yes I am cool. lol Hard Drives: Samsung 860 EVO drives Internet Speed: Zippy fast UP and DOWN Browser: The new Improved EDGE 2020 Antivirus: I got a shot
System Manufacturer/Model Number: HP Pavilion p6795a OS: windows 7 64 bit CPU: intel core i5 3.30GHz Quad Core Motherboard: HP Memory: 6gb Graphics Card: AMD RADEON HD 6450 1GB Dedicated Sound Card: ATI HIGH DEFINITION SOUND Monitor(s) Displays: LG Screen Resolution: 16:9 Hd Keyboard: Wireless Mouse: HP wireless keyboard and mouse Cooling: Fan Hard Drives: 1TB Internet Speed: fast enough Other Info: Beast Of A Machine!
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Ignatz Special; 4 speed manual gearbox; factory air conditioning; one of one OS: Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64-bit CPU: Intel Skylake i5-6600K, not overclocked Motherboard: AsRock Z170M Extreme 4, micro ATX Memory: 8 GB HyperX DDR4-2666 (2 x 4 GB) Graphics Card: none; graphics are integrated on CPU Sound Card: onboard: Realtek ALC1150; external: USB Behringer UF0-202 Monitor(s) Displays: Dell S2340M 23 inch IPS Screen Resolution: 1600 x 900 Keyboard: Microsoft 200 6JH-00001 USB Mouse: Dell or Microsoft optical wired; USB PSU: Rosewill SilentNight 500 watt fanless, semi-modular Case: Antec Solo II Cooling: Noctua NH-U12S; Noctua F12 intake, Noctua S12A exhaust Hard Drives: System: Crucial MX100 series SSD, 128 GB;
Data: Samsung Spinpoint 103SJ, 1 TB;
Backup: WD Caviar Green WD30EZRX-00D8PB0, 3 TB Browser: Pale Moon Antivirus: Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes Premium Other Info: All fans PWM; speeds at idle: CPU circa 500 rpm; intake circa 600 rpm; exhaust circa 600 rpm; CPU temps 27 idle and 47 C load in a warm room (27 C/81 F) when running Intel Extreme Tuning Utility stress test.
I have been using MSE for a month or so, so far no problems.
But--I don't think I have ever been updated twice in any 24 hour period. Nor have I ever gone more than about 40 hours without an update.
Right now, my most recent update was about 34 hours ago.
Why are some people updated several times per day and others not?
My PC is running at least 12 hours per day. Some days it will update within minutes of my startup. Other days, such as today, it will not.
What gives?
I sometime manually check for updates especially for virus definitions.
Someone is always trying to beat any virus protection so the company that stays on top of things better protects the computers. This isn't bad but you may need to update manually and see what happens.
12/17 had one update
12/18 so far today had two updates to Version 1.71 .1038.0
Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: Self Built OS: Windows 10 Pro CPU: Intel i5 Motherboard: I have a fatherboard Memory: I'm old and lost a few chips Graphics Card: Yup Sound Card: Yup Monitor(s) Displays: Samsung 32" UHD Screen Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Keyboard: Who needs a keyboard? Mouse: Logitech Laser G7 wireless PSU: 450 Watt and some fans that blow Case: Small tower Cooling: Yes I am cool. lol Hard Drives: Samsung 860 EVO drives Internet Speed: Zippy fast UP and DOWN Browser: The new Improved EDGE 2020 Antivirus: I got a shot
I have been using MSE for a month or so, so far no problems.
But--I don't think I have ever been updated twice in any 24 hour period. Nor have I ever gone more than about 40 hours without an update.
Right now, my most recent update was about 34 hours ago.
Why are some people updated several times per day and others not?
My PC is running at least 12 hours per day. Some days it will update within minutes of my startup. Other days, such as today, it will not.
What gives?
Seeing the same thing here. The only time I've gotten more than one a day is today and that was only because I did a manual just now. Not sure what's going on with multiples
System Manufacturer/Model Number: PartsIsParts OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit CPU: Intel Pentium D 3Ghz Motherboard: ASRock G31M-S Memory: 4 Gigs PC 6400 Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT Sound Card: Realtek High Definition Audio Integrated Monitor(s) Displays: AOC 19inch X2 Screen Resolution: 1024 X 768 (I'm Old) Keyboard: Generic Made in China Mouse: Logitech USB Optical Scroll PSU: 500 watt..don't know mfg. Case: Giant Black 4u rackmount I've had for years Cooling: Stock CPU extra 120s in case Hard Drives: Segate ST3160815AS Serial ATAII
Western Digital WD1600AAJA-75PSA0 Serial ATAII Internet Speed: What ever comcast decides to give me usually 21Mbps up/5mbps