Two A/V programs?

[Nisko]

Is Microsoft Security Essentials an A/V program? Can I run Norton Internet Security and Microsoft Security Essentials at the same time?

 

[zigzag3143]

Is Microsoft Security Essentials an A/V program? Can I run Norton Internet Security and Microsoft Security Essentials at the same time?

Yes MSE is an anti virus app and no you shouldnt run both. For my money I would pick MSE as it causes far less BSOD's than NIS, and it is free


Ke n

 

[Nisko]

I have Norton on a free three month trial. It's rated number1 in most magazines. I've only recently heard of MSE and I haven't seen it rated in any magazines. That's why I use Norton. If I could be convinced to use MSE instead, I would.

 

[mark5019]

mse is very good

 

[Aphelion]

Whenever anyone asks me about NIS I reply: If you want a slow, kludgy computer that crashes often by all means install NIS.

Maybe it's better than it used to be.....?

Ap

 

[Phone Man]

Whenever anyone asks me about NIS I reply: If you want a slow, kludgy computer that crashes often by all means install NIS.

Maybe it's better than it used to be.....?

Ap

Since 2009 Norton has seen the light and NIS is back on top. A lot faster and does a good job of protection.

Jim

 

[Aphelion]

Whenever anyone asks me about NIS I reply: If you want a slow, kludgy computer that crashes often by all means install NIS.

Maybe it's better than it used to be.....?

Ap

Since 2009 Norton has seen the light and NIS is back on top. A lot faster and does a good job of protection.

Jim

Jim,

Thanks for that, all I remembered is the Norton that acted more like a virus than a program designed to protect your computer. It's not often a company does an about face with their Flagship software.

Ap

 

[malexous]

Jim,

Thanks for that, all I remembered is the Norton that acted more like a virus than a program designed to protect your computer. It's not often a company does an about face with their Flagship software.

Ap

Your memory serves you well but they have turned many Norton haters into Norton users recently.

@Nisko

You should decide for yourself which anti-virus to use. MSE is good. So is NIS. Try MSE after your NIS trial and if you haven't already, read http://www.sevenforums.com/system-security/72070-whats-best-anti-virus.html.

Is all you use for security NIS?

 

[ignatzatsonic]

I have Norton on a free three month trial. It's rated number1 in most magazines. I've only recently heard of MSE and I haven't seen it rated in any magazines. That's why I use Norton. If I could be convinced to use MSE instead, I would.

Apparently, Norton has got itself together recently.

What would convince you about MSE?

It hasn't been around long enough to generate the interest and reviews that you can find for Norton, McAfee, AVG, etc.

Having said that, MSE works very well for most people--smallish footprint, updated automatically every 48 hours or less, and an intelligible uncluttered interface.

Most on this forum use it in conjunction with some other program--most often Malware Bytes, which can be run periodically. I think a few people are using MSE only.

I'm not wedded to MSE and am not a MS sycophant, but so far so good. I'd drop it if I had issues, but none have surfaced.

 

[Bill2]

1) Dont use 2 Antivirus programmes together with both in Real time protection mode. Enable real time protection in one, while using the other for the occasional full scan. You can beef up by adding free Malwarebytes and anti-spyware/ anti-trojans to your arsenal, but duplicating the AV wouldnt do much good.

2) Regarding MSE and Norton, I had been using MSE for a while now. I noticed while MSE is excellent in preventing infection, its not so good at actually cleaning up once the machine is already infected. Had this experience a couple of times, now have switched to Norton. Its quite lightweight though it has its annoyances- it insists on a browser toolbar, vets my google search results (with a green tick!) and generally is more intrusive than MSE. Lately it has been giving me infection warnings which I think are a false positive because that file doesnt exist on my machine. But otherwise, it seems to be working OK.

 

[malexous]

it insists on a browser toolbar, vets my google search results (with a green tick!) and generally is more intrusive than MSE.

While not the ideal option, you can disable the toolbar (which also disables the search annotations [you can do that separately as well]).

 

[Dinesh]

Is Microsoft Security Essentials an A/V program? Can I run Norton Internet Security and Microsoft Security Essentials at the same time?

Yes you can. I have tried it without any issues.

 

[Wishmaster]

Ive been running NIS2010 since Oct. of last year and have not had any BSOD or system freeze since it was installed & No viruses or malware either in that time.

At least so far ...


TBH, I cant really tell its running. It hasnt effected my sytsem at all perfromance wise, or at least anything noticeable.


As far as which, They are both good. NIS just has a lot more features.

If paying is of no matter to you, Just use which one your more comfortable with and prefer.