Microsoft Security Essentials
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From: Lil' Abner on 29 Jun 2010 18:19 Bill <wsblevins(a)email.com> wrote in news:i02m9001ts3(a)drn.newsguy.com: > Since Ubuntu Linux has apparently went the way of releasing > buggy-as-hell software, I reluctantly installed Windows 7 on my PC. > Much to my surprise, I find that Microsoft has released a free AV for > Windows users. > > The Microsoft Security Essentials seems to work rather well from what > I have read, and from a personal opinion the interface is simple and > functional. > > Anyone else using this product? I've tried it twice. For me, it slows things down considerably. Especially obvious in opening Office files. Sometimes MsMpEng.exe will eat up processor use like crazy. I thought maybe they would have gotten it fixed by the time I installed it a second time. I've got a Core 2 Quad CPU so it doesn't affect me as much as some others, but it's still too aggravating for me. I'm back to Avira and happy. -- --- Everybody has a right to my opinion. ---
From: David Kaye on 30 Jun 2010 10:26 "Lil' Abner" <blvstk(a)dogpatch.com> wrote: >I've tried it twice. For me, it slows things down considerably. This part is downright bizarre. I've installed MSSE on about 30 customer machines with no slowdown at all versus Avast. Then I put it on one machine and the thing crawled. At first I couldn't figure it out, but sure enough, when I took out MSSE and put Avast back it was fine. The machine was an XP SP3 with a Pent 4 processor. And yet I've gotten good results with slower machines.
From: EX_OWM on 15 Jul 2010 13:54 Dave Cohen wrote: > David Kaye wrote: >> GrtArtiste <grtartiste(a)aol.com> wrote: > Ubuntu works well enough for internet use but most > (not all) of the apps lack the polish of their windows equivalent I've been using it a fair bit in recent months and it takes me straight back to Windows 3.1, almost uncannily so when you have to keep dropping out to a DOS prompt .... oops, sorry, terminal ... to do anything that's not run of the mill.
From: EX_OWM on 15 Jul 2010 13:58 David W. Hodgins wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:17:00 -0400, ASCII <me2(a)privacy.net> wrote: > >> So you're suggesting that people don't learn from past activities, >> and seek to correct and improve their efforts? >> Isn't that sort of what RaiD claims to have done? > > I'm saying that some people don't, not all. In the case of m$, they > have a long history of not showing any change in their ability to > develop and maintain secure software. Care to tell us what the significant insecurities are in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008?
From: David W. Hodgins on 17 Jul 2010 03:08
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:58:36 -0400, EX_OWM <allthespamyoulike(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Care to tell us what the significant insecurities are in Windows 7 or > Windows Server 2008? For w7, they currently only have one publicly known "less critical" unpatched vulnerability http://secunia.com/advisories/product/27467/ With server 2008, it's currently two "less critical" vulnerabilities http://secunia.com/advisories/product/18255/ Those are for the os itself. If you include the various programs such as internet explorer 8, additional, although at this time, also "less critical" problems also show up http://secunia.com/advisories/product/18255/ As with any software from m$, it's only a matter of time till the new problems are found. If you skim through http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/archive.mspx you'll notice that many advisories are fixes for things that allow remote code execution, and/or privilege escalation. If you follow the secunia advisories, and the release of fixes from m$, over time, you'll understand that m$ is not, and never has been, capable of developing secure software, in my opinion. Many of the problems seem to stem from bad design choices, where they are trying to make things easy to use, and then adding security features after the fact, instead of designing the system to be secure from the start. Most of the rest appear to be problems where one group of software developers are using tools/features of other software components (such as the help fiasco), without properly considering the possible security implications, of using those features. Regards, Dave Hodgins -- Change nomail.afraid.org to ody.ca to reply by email. (nomail.afraid.org has been set up specifically for use in usenet. Feel free to use it yourself.) |