Is Microsoft Security Essentials enough? > General Discussion

Posted: 8/9/2013 1:53:03 PM EDT

That's all there is on my new laptop.

Posted: 8/9/2013 1:53:20 PM EDT

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It is for me. YMMV.

Posted: 8/9/2013 1:53:59 PM EDT

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been using it the past couple of years, never had anything it couldn't handle.

Posted: 8/9/2013 1:56:25 PM EDT

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MSE and Malwarebytes is what I run. No problems.

Posted: 8/9/2013 1:58:54 PM EDT

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It's all I use, and I sometimes meander through the seedy back alleys of the internet.

Posted: 8/9/2013 1:58:55 PM EDT

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IIRC, you're mega anti Norton.

Posted: 8/9/2013 2:01:05 PM EDT

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^^^^^This, if you're savvy computer user and don't vista porn sites ME is all you really need.

Posted: 8/9/2013 2:01:59 PM EDT

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It's all I ever install.

Posted: 8/9/2013 2:02:30 PM EDT

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It is for me. YMMV.

IIRC, you're mega anti Norton.

I don't care for it much.

Posted: 8/9/2013 2:04:20 PM EDT

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We are even considering it as an enterprise standard.

Right now we have Sophos and its a memory hog and its let some bad juju slip through.

Posted: 8/9/2013 2:04:46 PM EDT

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How did you put MSE on your Macbook?

Posted: 8/9/2013 2:05:19 PM EDT

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It alerted me while trying to download Japanese tentacle porn. I'm a fan.

Posted: 8/9/2013 2:06:12 PM EDT

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Ive had MSSE miss stuff. I use it in conjunction with malwarebytes and AVG.

Posted: 8/9/2013 2:06:54 PM EDT

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I have been using it for almost 2 years and have never had an issue. I would not hesitate to recommend it to others.

Posted: 8/9/2013 2:07:41 PM EDT

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I had an old Dell running Norton, installed MSE and it found 2 virus that Norton did not detect. Dumped Norton ran MSE for the rest of the Dells life no issues. Then finally got sick of PC's and got a Mac.

Posted: 8/9/2013 2:10:04 PM EDT

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After pushing it to 2500+ computers used by Iowa State University staff, faculty, and lab computers my virus calls went from 10+ a day to less than 1 a week.

McAfee is what they used before.

Posted: 8/9/2013 2:10:55 PM EDT

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It is for me. YMMV.

How did you put MSE on your Macbook?

Easy. My Macbook is running VMWare.

Posted: 8/9/2013 2:12:13 PM EDT

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I would say MSE and the paid malwarebytes client running side by side is the cheapest, best solution out there.

Posted: 8/9/2013 2:14:57 PM EDT

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Easy. My Macbook is running VMWare.

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It is for me. YMMV.

How did you put MSE on your Macbook?

Easy. My Macbook is running VMWare.

I meant on your apple operating system of course.

Posted: 8/9/2013 2:15:39 PM EDT

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It's the only thing I have on.

Posted: 8/9/2013 2:16:25 PM EDT

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Same here.

Posted: 8/9/2013 2:18:26 PM EDT

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This

Posted: 8/9/2013 2:25:19 PM EDT

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It is if you couple it with good Internet habits and common sense.

No AV substitutes for that. It's a layer of protection but not enough by itself.

Posted: 8/9/2013 2:30:24 PM EDT

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I meant on your apple operating system of course.

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It is for me. YMMV.

How did you put MSE on your Macbook?

Easy. My Macbook is running VMWare.

I meant on your apple operating system of course.

I've never had virus software on an Apple.

Posted: 8/9/2013 3:02:50 PM EDT

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We are even considering it as an enterprise standard.

Right now we have Sophos and its a memory hog and its let some bad juju slip through.

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Ugh.. we used Sophos at one point. Hated that software.

Posted: 8/9/2013 3:06:53 PM EDT

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I like Vista Antivirus Pro 2013.

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Posted: 8/9/2013 3:09:20 PM EDT

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Same here for me..........

Posted: 8/9/2013 3:13:42 PM EDT

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This!

Posted: 8/9/2013 3:18:43 PM EDT

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This

Posted: 8/9/2013 3:29:08 PM EDT

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For people running Malwarebytes......................is it the purchased version. I just used the free version on my old laptop and it expired.

Posted: 8/9/2013 3:32:30 PM EDT

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I had an old Dell running Norton, installed MSE and it found 2 virus that Norton did not detect. Dumped Norton ran MSE for the rest of the Dells life no issues. Then finally got sick of PC's and got a Mac.

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Best virus defense in the world, right there: get rid of Windows. Mac or Linux FTMFW!

Posted: 8/9/2013 3:34:18 PM EDT

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For people running Malwarebytes......................is it the purchased version. I just used the free version on my old laptop and it expired.

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Free is all I have ever used on my personal computers. They also use MS Security Essentials. The work laptop has Symantec on it but I can't control that. Never had a problem with any of the computers (4 total). If you are using a router you have a little bit more firewall security built in from what I have read.

Posted: 8/9/2013 3:49:34 PM EDT

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I run the free version of Malwarebytes and SuperAntiSpyware. They pick up stuff that Microsoft Security Essentials doesn't.

Posted: 8/9/2013 3:55:47 PM EDT

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Yeah. I've never gotten any of the crazy virus shit people complain about on here all the time. Firefox with NoScript and AdBlockPlus as well as MSE are about all you need.

Posted: 8/9/2013 4:07:04 PM EDT

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I've never had virus software on an Apple.

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It is for me. YMMV.

How did you put MSE on your Macbook?

Easy. My Macbook is running VMWare.

I meant on your apple operating system of course.

I've never had virus software on an Apple.

Not enough MAC users in the world for virus writers to spend the time to so. If that ever changes, look out.

Posted: 8/9/2013 4:08:53 PM EDT

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Same here for me..........

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Same here for me..........

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Posted: 8/9/2013 4:22:05 PM EDT

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For most people, yes.

If you're in idiot, no amount of antivirus will be enough.

Posted: 8/9/2013 4:23:52 PM EDT

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Best virus defense in the world, right there: get rid of Windows. Mac or Linux FTMFW!

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I had an old Dell running Norton, installed MSE and it found 2 virus that Norton did not detect. Dumped Norton ran MSE for the rest of the Dells life no issues. Then finally got sick of PC's and got a Mac.

Best virus defense in the world, right there: get rid of Windows. Mac or Linux FTMFW!

Except for that java vulnerability about six months ago that affected macs...

Posted: 8/9/2013 4:25:35 PM EDT

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I run AVAST. I'm not a computer techie but it seems to work. It has blocked several websites that apparently had problems.

Posted: 8/9/2013 4:31:29 PM EDT

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Except for that java vulnerability about six months ago that affected macs...

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Details, please.

Posted: 8/9/2013 4:41:20 PM EDT

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As usual, Java was full of holes Potentially allowing malware to run on a Mac. I wish you luck finding any significant reports of any users actually winding up with an exploited system. Even so, a couple of minutes with time machine (followed by the usual slew of patches to fix Java's crap) would take care of that.

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Except for that java vulnerability about six months ago that affected macs...

Details, please.

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Posted: 8/9/2013 5:29:18 PM EDT

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MSE and SuperAntiSpyware for me.

I run the SuperAntiSpyware scan once a month or so.

Seems like SAS always cleans out 200-300 tracking cookies. Whatever "tracking cookies" are.

Posted: 8/9/2013 5:33:41 PM EDT

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Yep.

Those and CCleaner and I feel I'm pretty much good to go. Don't generally peruse the porno sites, so I've got that going for me, I figure?

Chris

Posted: 8/9/2013 6:04:03 PM EDT

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Works for me.....

Posted: 8/9/2013 6:05:44 PM EDT

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I also run Malwarebytes - it doesn't see any action here at home but gets a pretty good workout at work.

It routinely catches the trojans that Symantec and McAfee miss.

Posted: 8/9/2013 6:08:44 PM EDT

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Yep.

Posted: 8/9/2013 6:09:50 PM EDT

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IIRC, you're mega anti Norton.

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It is for me. YMMV.

IIRC, you're mega anti Norton.

Norton consumes system resources and takes a bunch of your money. Basically, it is a virus. At least that was my experience.

Posted: 8/9/2013 6:11:03 PM EDT

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All I use. Norton and then McAfee became such resource hogs that I wouldn't use those products if they were free. So far so good.

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