Microsoft releases Security Essentials today

_Jimlad_ · 29 Sep 2009 at 15:02

Chaos said:
I was thinking of switching to this from Avast, however correct me if im wrong but apparently Mse dosnt have web filtering cabability like Avast?

Also Avast version 5 should be out soon with a new interface and an improved anti virus engine.

it wipes the floor with Avast, but if it does not do what you want then stay where you are i guess, but sure there are other web filtering apps?

chrisxuk said:
Worth swapping from AVG free 8.5?

its a no brainer

Dano · 29 Sep 2009 at 15:02

chrisxuk said:
Worth swapping from AVG free 8.5?

Hell yes, anything is worth swapping to from AVG these days.

Chaos · 29 Sep 2009 at 15:06

_Jimlad_ said:
it wipes the floor with Avast,

its a no brainer

Any results to show this or av comparisons ?

mrk · 29 Sep 2009 at 15:07

Yes lots of reviews done with the BETA, just search Google

Mik3 · 29 Sep 2009 at 15:26

I've been using the trial of Kaspersky Internet security 10 (excellent software), I was going to purchase it but now this is free I'll give it a try, would this and the windows firewall suffice? Windows 7.

Deluxe1 · 29 Sep 2009 at 15:29

Shadows1990 said:
Will be interested in how this performs to be honest.

Download link should be here, later today: http://www.microsoft.com/SECURITY_ESSENTIALS/

That page has just been taken down.

Pigeon_Killer · 29 Sep 2009 at 15:35

It's available now.

C64 · 29 Sep 2009 at 15:37

Why is it better than avast or avira ? okay I just ran it and it has found nothing at all.
Just going to install spybot and see what I find.

ricky200 · 29 Sep 2009 at 15:58

downloading, I am quite curious about it.

C64 · 29 Sep 2009 at 16:04

spybot found nothing so looks good so far am a bit meh about the ram it's using though surely it could use less than around 100mb which it seems to be using.Also there doesn't seem to be a way of disabling it when you don't wish to run it ? there's no service entry ? even when you turn off live monitoring i'ts still sitting there using 100mb ram

Fireblade2K4 · 29 Sep 2009 at 16:06

Installed and running ... uninstalled Avast, will see how this goes but so far so good.

Datamonkey · 29 Sep 2009 at 16:31

If they release a tie in with windows home server i will switch, otherwise im quite happy with avast

Bony Maloney · 29 Sep 2009 at 16:32

C64 said:
spybot found nothing so looks good so far am a bit meh about the ram it's using though surely it could use less than around 100mb which it seems to be using.Also there doesn't seem to be a way of disabling it when you don't wish to run it ? there's no service entry ? even when you turn off live monitoring i'ts still sitting there using 100mb ram

Kill msseces.exe in task manager processes

_Jimlad_ · 29 Sep 2009 at 17:16

if you want a free one then i would look no further than this, after all its made by the company that make the os you use it on. if my nod32 superscription expired tomorrow i would properly switch on all my pc's

_Jimlad_ · 29 Sep 2009 at 17:17

download link via neowin

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/09/29/microsoft-releases-security-essentials-today

ShakenNstirred · 29 Sep 2009 at 18:39

been using it a while now as i got it as a beta
been working well and been getting 2 updates aday most days so there keeping the thing up todate

ShakenNstirred · 29 Sep 2009 at 18:45

C64 said:
spybot found nothing so looks good so far am a bit meh about the ram it's using though surely it could use less than around 100mb which it seems to be using.Also there doesn't seem to be a way of disabling it when you don't wish to run it ? there's no service entry ? even when you turn off live monitoring i'ts still sitting there using 100mb ram

with the amount of ram we have these days why u worrying about 100mb

sirlemonhead · 29 Sep 2009 at 19:05

Mine only uses 3.5 megs of ram on Windows 7..

theheyes · 29 Sep 2009 at 19:15

I'll just be glad to just have a generic antivirus to install on the fixer-upper jobs I do for people that a) doesn't cost anything and b) doesn't mither you to upgrade to the paid version.

Elevon · 29 Sep 2009 at 19:30

C64 said:
spybot found nothing so looks good so far am a bit meh about the ram it's using though surely it could use less than around 100mb which it seems to be using.Also there doesn't seem to be a way of disabling it when you don't wish to run it ? there's no service entry ? even when you turn off live monitoring i'ts still sitting there using 100mb ram

Spybot is crap to be honest,you are better off with Malwarebytes 1.41 or SuperAntiSpyware with a free AV.