Microsoft Security Essentials - antivirus - is this any good

**ttony** · 9th February 2010, 23:56

just been reading about this and the reviews are all good , is anyone useing this ? if you are what do you think of it ?
this is free to download and updates to stop the latests viruses etc

im looking for a good free antivirus

what do you people think ?? .

**little_pob** · 10th February 2010, 01:49

It's well rated amongst the free antivirus programs, as such I've been using it for a few weeks.

Seems ok, certainly doesn't slow the machine down as much as the free version of AVG 8.5 (worth noting that all AV software slow your computer down to some degree) but I've nothing else to compare it to.

It scans USB devices as you connect them - it gave a false positive on an old keygen on my 'PC setup' pen drive (deleted it anyway).

However, I don't click through on pop-ups, only use webmail at home and delete spam without reading it anyway so I've not had cause to test it in that way.

**ttony** · 10th February 2010, 19:32

thanx m8 for the reply , i might give it a go myself

**giz** · 11th February 2010, 16:16

Good reviews all around. I've been adding it to clients' machines lately. Note that it does a WGA check before installing.

**ttony** · 11th February 2010, 22:17

if i am able to get the updates ok , would i be able to install this on my computer. ?

**giz** · 12th February 2010, 00:16

Originally Posted by ttony

if i am able to get the updates ok , would i be able to install this on my computer. ?

If you're g2g on win updates, then you should be okay.

**ttony** · 13th February 2010, 13:51

ok thankyou

**hoppy** · 14th February 2010, 03:32

If your version of windows is erm,,cough, cough, borrowed then a would not put MSE on it as my mate did and 2 weeks later he got rumbled.
In the licence agreement it states that windows will do checks on your OES and also check 3rd party software.
He had a VLK code and the usual other bits but his OES was declared not genuine.
MS have several upgrades coming soon to the Genuine Advantage Tool aswell so be careful mate..
http://www.digitalworldz.co.uk/22937...windows-2.html

**ttony** · 14th February 2010, 11:45

ok m8 thankyou ...and it cough cough is

**oneman** · 19th February 2010, 20:43

Been using it on all my machines since it came out and has the lowest footprint out of all the anti-virus except Vipre.

Running on a box which I use for scan hards disks which clients bring to me (usually riddled with spyware and viruses). The box also has McAfee, symantec, AVG, vipre and kaspersky and its seems as good as any of them for detection.