Microsoft Security Essentials fails AV-Test certification... again

[Guest]

Looks like im going back to Avast + Malwarebytes. At least I can close those without uninstalling for gaming anyways.

 

[captaincranky]

OMG MS has to get this fixed ASAP. It's so much easier to deploy MSE (the enterprise equivalent anyway) than any of the others, but if it's screwing up so bad now no one will want to risk it unless they just can't afford a license with one of the other companies.

It depends on who you want to believe. "Guest" posted M$'s response to the testing" They of course claim that AV-Tests are, to one extent or another, flawed or moot. Here's that link again: http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2013/01/16/lessons-learned-from-the-latest-test-results.aspx

So granted, their response is understandable. OTOH, in a commercial environment, you can use script blocking, with white listing. Since the in house staff on line are , (or should be), all LAC's, there shouldn't be an issue, as long as the extra level of security is maintained. Then there's site blocking and filtering. I know you know these things, but think of all the fun we'll have as soon as anybody, (in this case me), mentions the big "C-word" (*)!

(*) censorship.

 

[cliffordcooley]

I figured I would mention, I purposely clicked a link tonight that I knew would more than likely infect my PC. After a minute or two MSE was giving a small popup in the bottom right of Desktop. At first it appeared that MSE had removed the threat, but that wasn't the case. MSE continued to give the small popup. After manually running MSE and Malwarebytes scans, the threat remained. Instead of wasting further time on this infection I purposely give myself, I booted into safe Mode and fell back on a System Restore Point. MSE may not have removed the threat, but the threat was identified which allowed me to remove it fairly quickly. And for me and my needs, that is all I ask for.

 

[Duckula22]

I'm all up for having some sort of Av solution, but I prefer the one that doesn't slow down noticeably my hard drive. It therefore needs to be a light AV solution. I used to like MSE but lately it kinda makes my hard drive work too hard, and now this not really being protected thing.

 

[Duckula22]

Does anybody know F-Prot?

 

[hahahanoobs]

After last years fail, I went to Avast Free. It's decent.

 

[hahahanoobs]

"I have no need for an Anti Virus. I do however install a different one randomly every few months and run a scan for the heck of it. I haven't had an issue with malware in more than a decade"

--> LoL!!

You could do online scans instead of installing full programs.

 

[hahahanoobs]

Common Sense people C`mon!! Why would MS invest in something that is going to cost them $$. Better AV-Software = longer runtimes for their OS = Less money for M$.

Its why they used to include McAfee (the most gawd-awful AV ever)
Its why they included Norton/Symantec
And its why they created MSSE.

Microsoft bought McAfee.

 

[captaincranky]

Microsoft bought McAfee.

Is McAfee still in jail?

 

[learninmypc]

Microsoft bought McAfee.

When? I don't see it mentioned

 

[hahahanoobs]

When? I don't see it mentioned

Oops.

 

[mrjgriffin]

Only thing microsoft has ever released that was a good security program was "microsoft antispyware" before they ended up naming it windows defender. that program found a lot of bad things on my computer, things that spybot ad aware webroot and pc tools missed. after they changed to windows defender it never detected anything once. I've used msse a handful of times and it has never found anything either and from these last 2 articles I've been reading about them failing it doesn't suprise me. lastly im suprised avg beat avast this time around.