Just how good is Microsoft Security Essentials?

ralv585 · 13 Nov 2011 at 00:10

So how good is it?

Being a long time Nod32 user, will security essentials offer the same level of protection?

BigBoy · 13 Nov 2011 at 00:29

I personally have never had a problem with it and been using it for nearly 2 years!

Tute · 13 Nov 2011 at 00:34

BigBoy said:
I personally have never had a problem with it and been using it for nearly 2 years!

Likewise.

d_brennen · 13 Nov 2011 at 00:36

Better than nothing but not as good as a bit of common sense

Deleted member 77746 · 13 Nov 2011 at 11:21

There's a thread for this sort of stuff.

Jay794 · 13 Nov 2011 at 11:28

I like MSE, it always picks up dodgy cookies and stuff like that. Loads better than paying for Norton or Kaspersky, less CPU hungry too. Everytime I've had Norton on my PC it's like having my mum sitting next to me saying "are you sure you should be clicking on that" then the PC crashes lol

panyan · 13 Nov 2011 at 11:30

ive been an avid avast user for as long as i can remember, and i recommend it to everyone who has virus issues, but i am really tempted to try microsoft security essentials

Deleted member 77746 · 13 Nov 2011 at 11:30

Wow....

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18115179

ShakenNstirred · 13 Nov 2011 at 11:30

have used MSE since the beta days and never had a problem with it

panyan · 13 Nov 2011 at 12:16

the one thing that stops me from trying MSE is that i have heard that because of peoples hatred of microsoft, they are making viruses specifically designed to defeat MSE

ng93 · 13 Nov 2011 at 12:19

Been using MSE for well over a year and never had a problem, but like everything it needs to be paired with common sense. It's also very lightweight, even on my 2GHz C2D macbook it doesn't have a noticeable effect on performance.

Billythekid · 13 Nov 2011 at 12:23

its brilliant. Imo clearly the best anti-virus out there right now.

Jay794 · 13 Nov 2011 at 12:29

ng93 said:
Been using MSE for well over a year and never had a problem, but like everything it needs to be paired with common sense. It's also very lightweight, even on my 2GHz C2D macbook it doesn't have a noticeable effect on performance.

Windows Security Essentials....for macs? why?

andy_mk3 · 13 Nov 2011 at 12:35

Jay794 said:
Windows Security Essentials....for macs? why?

You can run windows on a mac.

d_brennen · 13 Nov 2011 at 12:36

Jay794 said:
Windows Security Essentials....for macs? why?

Ermmm.. Macs run Windows 7 as well?

Jay794 · 13 Nov 2011 at 12:36

I know you can run Windows on a mac! via bootcamp , but the way he said it I thought he was using WSE on OSX, which I really didn't see the point of

Hairybudda · 13 Nov 2011 at 14:25

Jay794 said:
I know you can run Windows on a mac! via bootcamp , but the way he said it I thought he was using WSE on OSX, which I really didn't see the point of

The way he said it? He said he runs it on his core2 macbook, it was pretty damn clear to me and everyone else in the thread.

Jay794 · 13 Nov 2011 at 14:28

Hairybudda said:
The way he said it? He said he runs it on his core2 macbook, it was pretty damn clear to me and everyone else in the thread.

Ok so forgive me for thinking that people who buy macs would run OSX on it lol

Gzero · 13 Nov 2011 at 14:51

Found it was lacking and let a my wow account get hacked despite regular scanning before and after the event. Strangely Malwarebyte found what I think was the offending trojan and have now switched to avast home edition, I'm a cautious (and only I use that pc) pc user and never click dodgy links/attachments so figuring it might have from a dodgy advert as I only used curse for wow addons.

madindehead · 13 Nov 2011 at 15:43

ShakenNstirred said:
have used MSE since the beta days and never had a problem with it

Same. Very good.

A lot of these things depend on the end user also.