Microsoft Security Essentials 4.0 released, free anti-virus without the nag

[captaincranky]

No MSE, thanks. Avira works for me. And I'm among the population that refuses to pay for crap. Why pay $79 when you can get twice the protection for free?

I've tried all the free AV "Solutions". In a strange twist of result, Avira is the only product that ever let anything through to the point where I went ahead and reformatted.

Accordingly, as I stated above, "your results may vary". So use whatever you like. I will say Avira has the most annoying "Buy Me Now" nag screen in the business. And no, don't trouble yourself by telling me there's a way to defeat it's. It the thought that counts, or so they say, and I've already, shall we say, "gotten the message"!

 

[Marnomancer]

Yes, the nag can be annoying. It opens up unwelcome, right in your face.

 

[Guest]

Now, if Microsoft would only give us something like Garage Band...

Why, so there can be yet one more app 99.99% of the world doesn't don't care about or use?

 

[Guest]

Well I used Norton 360 for 8months and It caused my windows 7 to Crash every 6weeks and their technical assist was very poor? (sorry none existent) (since removing it no problems) touch wood ! I have used windows essentials since, and had no probs on my computer. So that's the one I and millions of others recommend.

 

[Route44]

Been using NOD32 for several years and have no problem paying the $ for a great product. I also use the Avast free on two other systems plus their $ for my wife's laptop. Again, great products. And for my son's laptop the MSE offering which has done well for him.

As the Captain rightly points out your "your results may vary" and "use whatever you like."

 

[Guest]

First, when referring to a previous post, does the whole post have to be reprinted?

Does the person making the reply do that, or is it how this forum is set up ?

Anyhow, it's annoying as hell.
(See captaincranky @ Apr 30, 5:39 AM - was it really necessary to repost the previous guy's entire comment?)

Second, although Avira is an excellent antivirus, I'd never recommend it as a 'set-it-and-forget-it'
program.

I've tried it several times over the last 7 or so years on different rigs and different OS's, and the free version has always had automatic update issues.
(Just for shitz and giggles, you free Avira users go check your update logs now.)
I've tried every suggestion given in their forums, and I've concluded that the problem is on their end; they know about it (there's enough letters in the forum to show that), and they don't care.

MSSE is still not up to par, AVG can't seem to catch Avira and Avast.

So Avast Free is my choice.

 

[captaincranky]

First, when referring to a previous post, does the whole post have to be reprinted?

Does the person making the reply do that, or is it how this forum is set up ?

Anyhow, it's annoying as hell.
(See captaincranky @ Apr 30, 5:39 AM - was it really necessary to repost the previous guy's entire comment?)

Second, although Avira is an excellent antivirus, I'd never recommend it as a 'set-it-and-forget-it'
program.

I've tried it several times over the last 7 or so years on different rigs and different OS's, and the free version has always had automatic update issues.
(Just for shitz and giggles, you free Avira users go check your update logs now.)
I've tried every suggestion given in their forums, and I've concluded that the problem is on their end; they know about it (there's enough letters in the forum to show that), and they don't care.

MSSE is still not up to par, AVG can't seem to catch Avira and Avast.

So Avast Free is my choice.

I don't suppose you'd believe that I requote an entire post for the simple reason that I believe the OP has so much of value to contribute, that it bears repeating.

Didn't think so.

In any event, I going to sign out and and install whatever AV you're using. It must be great since you put so much conviction into your proselytizing of it....Yay Avast!

BTW: My sons "genius" wife allowed the only copy of "Avast" I ever installed to be killed by Facebook. Jus' sayin. That's when I stopped using it.

Um also, it would mean a great deal to me if you'd click the "Like" button for this post.

 

[Guest]

They forgot to allow for Proxy Configuration. You can work around this by running proxycfg -p proxyserverort or netsh winhttp set proxy proxy-server

 

[Guest]

In general today it's much easier keeping PC's clean then it was several years ago.​

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Personally most of us don't have enough situations to know which is really best etc, so we need to rely on others who do this for a living their word. Whatever your fav is today, if something did get by and do damage, who's to say you next AV wouldn't have failed as well?​

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I know MS lost a lot of business and respect 5-10 years ago when viruses were running rampant. If somehow their O/S could have run and been protected like they are now, their name would have been a lot better and I bet their stock prices would have reflected it.​

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I ghost all home systems, I don't run any live protection. I do updates. On my personal pc, I have not had one virus or even spyware malware for over 4 months now. The later one's that is unheard of. Now I do have some protection add-on's for Firefox, the general one's, 3rd party cookies off etc.​

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When I run AV and Spyware on family pc's, no AV's in a long time (no one running realtime) and a much lower Spyware count, like every 30 days maybe 20 pedestrian one's.​

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We all have fears and what we think is best, so I don't preach what you should or shouldn't do. My house is ultimately protected by full ghost system backups. But things have gotten so so much better. One could school me that letting my guard down is a unwise choice, perhaps correct. But I haven't run full-time protection since something like '07.​