Microsoft Security Essentials

Systems
Systems Posts: 14,873
edited November 2009 in The Clubhouse
Hello

Microsoft's new security program is now available:

http://www.microsoft.com/Security_essentials/

Don't know a whole lot about it yet, there's a podcast on Itunes called security now with Steve Gibson, the latest episode #216, they talk about it. Am going to listen to it tonight.....
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited October 2009
    Free huh?I wonder if there will be any conflict with Norton if used on the same PC.
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited October 2009
    GV#27 wrote: »
    Free huh?I wonder if there will be any conflict with Norton if used on the same PC.

    Yes, they do recommend that you uninstall your current Antivirus.... I do recommend that you listen to that podcast that I mentioned.....
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited October 2009
    Lorthos wrote: »
    . I do recommend that you listen to that podcast that I mentioned.....
    Thanks, will do.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,394
    edited October 2009
    That is awesome for a piracy company to do! Lets come out with an anti-blah, blah blah.. Against the very people we are ourselves! This is a sick chance to get into your PC's.

    As far as I am concerned, F ck Msoft!

    Apple, you do not need this sh t.

    Halen
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited October 2009
    ^ wtf?
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited October 2009
    Shizelbs wrote: »
    ^ wtf?

    My thoughts exactly......
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  • Pauly
    Pauly Posts: 4,519
    edited October 2009
    This hes having flashbacks....


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  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited October 2009
    halenhoang wrote: »
    That is awesome for a piracy company to do! Lets come out with an anti-blah, blah blah.. Against the very people we are ourselves! This is a sick chance to get into your PC's.

    As far as I am concerned, F ck Msoft!

    Apple, you do not need this sh t.

    Halen

    :eek::cool::rolleyes::rolleyes: Gotta love apple. I know I know it is a microsoft thread lol
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,394
    edited October 2009
    I am sorry for posting what I did. I apologize to the OP. What I stated was in bad taste and disrespectful.

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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited October 2009
    halenhoang wrote: »
    I am sorry for posting what I did. I apologize to the OP. What I stated was in bad taste and disrespectful.

    Halen

    Okay, apology accepted, hope your having a better day.....
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    edited October 2009
    halenhoang wrote: »
    I am sorry for posting what I did. I apologize to the OP. What I stated was in bad taste and disrespectful.

    Halen

    Not a big MS fan? Me neither
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited October 2009
    sucks2beme wrote: »
    Not a big MS fan? Me neither

    Man, you guys just can't leave it alone.....this is just an informational thread, nothing else....
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,726
    edited October 2009
    Linux RULEZ!!!!!!!! :D
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  • greg2350
    greg2350 Posts: 544
    edited October 2009
    macs are for kids a monkey can use them. I use both and preffer microsoft yes they have virus but so would mac if it was the dominent OS. This crap macs cant get virus is horseshit who would wright a virus for an OS that only maybe %20 of the population use it. macs have there issues 2 mainley price and thier snobby attitude and the ones that use them. Hmmm same hardware as a pc but twice the price. Thats my rant like I said I have both but rarely use the mac they have **** for apps.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,726
    edited October 2009
    By the way, what's the scoop on this, do people generally like it? I don't really know anything about a podcast, so not sure what that guy had to say.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,726
    edited October 2009
    greg2350 wrote: »
    macs are for kids a monkey can use them. I use both and preffer microsoft yes they have virus but so would mac if it was the dominent OS. This crap macs cant get virus is horseshit who would wright a virus for an OS that only maybe %20 of the population use it. macs have there issues 2 mainley price and thier snobby attitude and the ones that use them. Hmmm same hardware as a pc but twice the price. Thats my rant like I said I have both but rarely use the mac they have **** for apps.
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    Wow, your grammar is terrible, but I agree with your post 100%
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  • Sami
    Sami Posts: 4,634
    edited October 2009
    AsSiMiLaTeD wrote: »
    By the way, what's the scoop on this, do people generally like it? I don't really know anything about a podcast, so not sure what that guy had to say.

    Average product based on the reviews I've read. Here's one article:

    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2348998,00.asp
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited October 2009
    AsSiMiLaTeD wrote: »
    By the way, what's the scoop on this, do people generally like it? I don't really know anything about a podcast, so not sure what that guy had to say.

    Heres the MP3 file:

    http://media.grc.com/sn/sn-216.mp3
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  • Pauly
    Pauly Posts: 4,519
    edited November 2009
    So anyone running this? What are your thoughts? Im thinking about Dling and running. Ive been an AVG guys since it came out years ago. The All in One factor is appealing with me not to run 3 diff programs for spyware adware malware and anti virius.


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    apphd Posts: 1,514
    edited November 2009
    Pauly wrote: »
    So anyone running this? What are your thoughts? Im thinking about Dling and running. Ive been an AVG guys since it came out years ago. The All in One factor is appealing with me not to run 3 diff programs for spyware adware malware and anti virius.


    Pauly

    +1 anyone here try it yet? I never like to be the first:D The one review was the beta, anyone know if the full release is any better?
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited November 2009
    Hello

    I've been running it on Windows 7, on a homebuilt tower since 7 was released. Seems to be doing just fine, don't really notice it. It does its updates, regular scans, all very seamlessly....

    I've put it on a couple of xp towers and a laptop also, no problems there either. I guess you don't really know how good it is till it stops something bad....
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  • Big Dawg
    Big Dawg Posts: 2,005
    edited November 2009
    Lorthos wrote: »
    Hello

    ... I guess you don't really know how good it is till it stops something bad....

    ...or doesn't. ;)
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  • John30_30
    John30_30 Posts: 1,024
    edited November 2009
    Lorthos wrote: »
    Hello

    Microsoft's new security program is now available:

    http://www.microsoft.com/Security_essentials/

    Don't know a whole lot about it yet, there's a podcast on Itunes called security now with Steve Gibson, the latest episode #216, they talk about it. Am going to listen to it tonight.....

    Steve Gibson's a guy people either love or hate. He is something of a freakin' genius, however, having coded his main app, Spinrite, entirely in Assembly language. That alone qualifies him for a spot in wikipedia as a king uber-anal-obsessive nerd.

    The one advantage I would hope MS can inject into a product like this is this scenario: when someone has a machine that is totally fubarred, trojaned or wormed up, running a good av app/cleanser often wrecks the system as system files have been replaced by compromised files by the malware. When the standard AV or malware cleaner finds and quarantines those, the O.S. is often hosed, requiring a complete reinstall.
    I'd hope that Microsoft, supposedly knowing their own code and system files, their goal would to be able to cleanse malware and restore compromised system files in one move.
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited November 2009
    John30_30 wrote: »
    Steve Gibson's a guy people either love or hate. He is something of a freakin' genius, however, having coded his main app, Spinrite, entirely in Assembly language. That alone qualifies him for a spot in wikipedia as a king uber-anal-obsessive nerd.

    The one advantage I would hope MS can inject into a product like this is this scenario: when someone has a machine that is totally fubarred, trojaned or wormed up, running a good av app/cleanser often wrecks the system as system files have been replaced by compromised files by the malware. When the standard AV or malware cleaner finds and quarantines those, the O.S. is often hosed, requiring a complete reinstall.
    I'd hope that Microsoft, supposedly knowing their own code and system files, their goal would to be able to cleanse malware and restore compromised system files in one move.

    Heres an excerpt from an article on PCworld:

    "When put against AV-Test's "WildList" collection of 3,194 recent, common viruses, bots, and worms, Microsoft Security Essentials detected and removed each and every one of the malware samples. How does this compare to other security products? AV-Test coordinator Andreas Marx notes that "several other [antivirus] scanners are still not able to detect and kill all of these critters yet." In addition, Microsoft Security Essentials put up a perfect score with zero false positives—it didn't flag a single clean file as being malicious. AV-Test also took an initial look at Microsoft Security Essentials' rootkit detection, testing it against a few rootkit samples, and found "nothing to complain about."
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  • ryanjoachim
    ryanjoachim Posts: 2,046
    edited November 2009
    I might give it a shot here soon, as my computer currently doesn't have any AV protection.

    My wife's sure as hell does though...she can't stay off Facebook!
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  • SKsolutions
    SKsolutions Posts: 1,820
    edited November 2009
    I was running AVG free because it was all I could get to load on Win7 x64. After reading this post, I took out AVG, and installed the M>S> Essentials, which is so quiet and light that I pretty much forgot about it. FWIW it stopped and removed an ASF downloader that was scripted into a media file. I think it works pretty well, even though I still don't like the fact that it's not third party. It's free, so what the heck.
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