Should I say, Goodbye MSE

Originally Posted by Drew

Ken, you have some sort of 6 core CPU, right?

Drew

According to Speccy , my CPU is:

Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T7500
Cores 2
Threads 2
Name Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T7500
Code Name Merom
Package Socket P (478)
Technology 65nm
Specification Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz
Family 6
Extended Family 6
Model F
Extended Model F
Stepping B
Revision G0
Instructions MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, Intel 64
Virtualization Supported, Enabled
Hyperthreading Not supported
Bus Speed 199.5 MHz
Rated Bus Speed 798.0 MHz
Stock Core Speed 2200 MHz
Stock Bus Speed 200 MHz
Average Temperature 51 °C
Caches
L1 Data Cache Size 2 x 32 KBytes
L1 Instructions Cache Size 2 x 32 KBytes
L2 Unified Cache Size 4096 KBytes
Core 0
Core 1

Ah, ok; was thinking of another. No matter, goes back to you pondering being able to have a vm run well. Your machine is plenty robust for that.

Drew

i have used both, and i have noticed false positives from avg, mse is proving to be by far the better of the two. avg tries too hard to upsell it's free version, which is a real pain at times

Originally Posted by Drew

If someone refused to use MSE then, yes, certainly, Avast.

Way back, before MSE, used it & gave it to clients, fine product & company.

However, both can give issues... MSE doesn't.

& what Joe said!

Drew

I uninstalled AVG after noticing that it found a few things over time that weren't real there. hmm. - never liked being stuck with a free version, nagged repeatedly to buy the payware version. I reason it this way, my operating system is Microsoft, so is my (free) antimalware/antivirus, mse. Who knows Windows better?

Logic does make sense.

Drew

In MSE 4. Microsoft did better improvement
I really like it alot.
I did test it when their releasing new version (v4)
here's if you want watch it.
Microsoft Security Essentials 4 Final - YouTube

I had MSE 4 on my old computer I gave to my grandmother. Version 2 is fine but version 4 I already had two BSOD. The first one was about a half hour after installing version 4 then again last week. Me and my mother were going to switch to MSE when our NOD32 subscription expired but now we don't want to take a chance so we renewed them for all three of our computers. I took MSE 4 off of my grandmothers computer and put NOD32 on there. If it still BSOD then I know it is the computers fault as it is old from 2007 but still fast and I will have to get her a new one.

[QUOTE=reddice;261948]I had MSE 4 on my old computer I gave to my grandmother. Version 2 is fine but version 4 I already had two BSOD. The first one was about a half hour after installing version 4 then again last week. Me and my mother were going to switch to MSE when our NOD32 subscription expired but now we don't want to take a chance so we renewed them for all three of our computers. I took MSE 4 off of my grandmothers computer and put NOD32 on there. If it still BSOD then I know it is the computers fault as it is old from 2007 but still fast and I will have to get her a new one.

bsod's are usually caused by bad drivers lurking after an install/uninstall, or a hardware failure.
mse doesn't cause them to my knowledge. can you boot to safe mode? what is the bsod error. nod32 is good software in my book, but mse, properly updated, is free and i think just as good or better.
since you already renewed, keep using but look at drivers or hardware as your most likely culprits, especially on older computers

Well folks=I guess I will be the odd man out here for MSE gave me more heartaches on windows 7 than I care to state on both my Sandy Bridge I7 and AMD 6 core machines. For 4 months I fought to find the culprit (but im old and slow) and when I disabled MSE, all was fine, I'll just use Avast!