OK I did it NOW! 100% MS Security Essentials Test

I'm running ThreatFire and MSE, with UAC disabled. I run Malwarebytes weekly, and Adblock Plus and NoScript on Firefox, and this thing is pretty darned secure*knock wood*.

7mm said:

Defense system is only as good as it's operator. And in Antivirus / Antispyware case, it's best strength is their updates. Recently, My Bitdefender missed a malware hidden in the Flashdrive, where Spybot S&D spoted it by didn't removed it, MBAM helped out. Since no AV out there is perfect & not bound to agree with other AVs, user can't be sure what decision to take whe malware strikes.

So be wise on what you click & where you surf, Good Luck, Good Surfing.

DITTO 7mm. Your statement is straight to the point.
My orginal point for starting the original message was that I wasn't sure if MSE would handle everyday surfing security. It has been well over a month and I feel MSE totally secure. Some may disagree but I enjoy a program that runs in my background that doesn't slow the rest of the world down and still gives you 100% security.
Thank you MSE TEAM!

Thanks to the OP for this thread, i was using (and JUST using) Avast Pro 4.8 (legit 1yr--which i think is almost finished) without UAC and NO windowz Firewall, i am now running Firewall on with recommended settings, No UAC and MSE (the only thing i done with it is disable schedule scanning). this morning i left it running and let it scan my 2 drives and 5 partitions (didnt see how long it took as i was at work). it found a few things (mostly packed into a vista black edition of course) and another thing it found which baffles me is it claims a video i d/l has a Trojan Downloader?? a video?? but the thing with these virus software programms is you dont really know who to trust, Avast has a good history, but did not pick up the video but MSE did? i know its just 1 file, but all to their own, i think it could mean it may be 'over sensitive', which is not always a bad thing.

also a bit nooby of me...but is there a way to get hold of files that it quarantined or removed? cos if not that is really rather rude of it. LOL, even though it MAY have infected files or so, the end user should still have complete control.

all in all, i did notice a smaller amount of memory is free since the swap, and like others, a slightly quicker boot time.:)

I dont know why but MSE looks kinda crappy to me with its ugly interface and poor of options but i dont know what antivirus to use so im currenty using it.
With ESET i got RAM leaking problems i still havent tested AVG but i have heard that it uses much RAM too and i think avast has low detection rate.

Juxhin said:

I dont know why but MSE looks kinda crappy to me with its ugly interface and poor of options but i dont know what antivirus to use so im currenty using it.
With ESET i got RAM leaking problems i still havent tested AVG but i have heard that it uses much RAM too and i think avast has low detection rate.

dont look at it then, or increase your pagefile size and worry less about ram usage, or get more ram. i have never had an issue while using Avast, and i do do some extreme surfing every now and again, including d/l A LOT of torrents.

or dont use the internet.

but if your ram is leaking, you should really call a plumber to fix its leak.

JordanJP said:

IggyAZ said:

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.
MS Win7 Firewall is up and I have UAC set to the default level.
Defender is gone, MSE shuts that down during install.

So far I have found that I have reduced memory usage about 30 Meg.
My Re-bootup time has dreceased from 63 sec to 54 seconds.

Does anyone else have your system setup this way?
Have I missed anything else?

Will keep you posted on how ell thing perform.

Iggy

I'm glad to hear that you were able to decrease Boot time !

How do you access that Boot Time Monitor tool ? I wouldn't mind timing my boot time


Thanks


Jordan JP

here you go lad...
just follow the webstructions, also try to disable any logon password (if you have one) for the most accurate times.
Restart Time