Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0.657.0 Final

Khaaan! said:
I don't get the start menu scanning on mine, no CPU difference and I have a lot of programs installed although my start menu is completely organised in folders by application category.
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That might be why. Upon a restart (as once a folder etc. has been scanned by MSE it won't do it again until the computer restarts) I access my Start Menu on Windows 7. The frequently used programs all get scanned. Then in All Programs all the things that aren't in any subfolders (like Adobe Reader, Pidgin, Spotify etc.) get scanned. Once I go into a folder such as Winamp then both the program executable and uninstaller executable get scanned.

I do find it a little odd that I appear to have an AV program that clearly impacts system performance in a massive in-your-face way while everyone else seems perfectly happy with it. MSE has been doing this on multiple systems on sometimes clean installations for me.

Also MSE is the only program (if all this is "desired" behaviour) that is trying to get at files that COULD be malicious to your system. You could have the worst piece of malware in the world sitting on your desktop and as long as you don't run it nothing bad happens to your computer. Yet Microsoft wants to scan everything long before you try to run it.

Either:

A. It's just me
B. Having a multi-core processor helps (i'm on a 2Ghz Opteron 146)
C. Nobody restarts/shuts down their computer these days
D. The entire internets fail to see what an awful CPU munching program this is

I've never had the auto-update steal focus mind.
 
To update the program you need to click the ?v button then check software updates, normal updates just does spyware and virus definitions.

I just rebooted my PC over remote desktop and opened task manager and then clicked my start menu (I have 15 programs set to be listed and 3 pinned programs) and it loaded instantly with no increase in idle CPU usage.
 
Dinkas said:
Have they bothered to fix MSE's annoying auto-update behaviour that steals focus and minimizes full screen apps/games? Only been on their "cba to fix this" list for most of 2010 :rolleyes:
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Wait, so that's the reason my machine just randomly goes back to the desktop... Bah, I'm gonna go back to Comodo, stableful mode uses much less CPU anyway.
 
First time MSE user here.

My Norton Internet Security 2010 license ended on Saturday so I decided to have a look at free security software for the first time in several years. I had already seen MSE mentioned here and on Lifehacker - as well as several other sites - so I decided to just go for it rather than buy NIS 2011.

Got it installed, updated and done a full scan. Thankfully it didn't find anything which means my measures of using Norton along with Super anti-spyware and Malware-bytes is working.

Fast forward to today when I plug in my flash drive earlier this morning ... BOOM !! MSE pops up DEFCON 1 style because it has found a severe virus called VirTool:INF/Autorun.gen!T. I've not seen that sort of reaction in about a year ... around the same time I installed NIS 2010 when I had thought about it.

The flash drive only has college work on it like word documents, PDFs and batch scripts. Everything is still there as far as I can tell so it probably wasn't a false positive.

I'm now pretty confident of using MSE for the foreseeable future. I'm also pretty gutted that I was paying for something which was rubbish. So all in all I just saved £30 on an inferior product ... YAY ! .
 
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