Should I say, Goodbye MSE

- My notebook suddenly became unresponsive. I looked in Task Manager and found 99% of the CPU cycles were being consumed by MSE.

Should I say Goodbye to MSE? What would the replacement be?

What If ? - I configured its real time features? How significant might that be?

Reboot and see what happens. Then update MSE to the current version and then check for definition updates. The next thing I would check for is malware and spyware on your system.




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Add to that (implied), stay w/ MSE. May have been only a peak.

This is in addition to what 'bass' said.

Drew

well MSE has deproved instead of improving with the passage of time. If you need free anti virus, I recomend avg free

Where on Earth did you come to that conclusion?? While it is found ppl reporting problems w/ AVG, eliminate them & have better performance after switching from AVG to MSE.

well, it was just my opinion based on my experience. Last month my PC slowed down and I felt it is a virus attack. I scanned it again and again with MSE and it showed no virus. I installed avg and scanned and found 11 virus which were than successfully removed.

Maybe your MSE had not been kept up to date, including its definitions. Rare, very rare, for anything to get by it. It & Malwarebytes & one is well fixed.

Did you submit the viruses to Virus Total and confirm if they were real or false positives? I gave up on AVG years ago and see it constantly mentioned as a problem in BSOD analysis. I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.
Joe

Originally Posted by hiqasim

well MSE has deproved instead of improving with the passage of time. If you need free anti virus, I recomend avg free

I wouldn't have AVG Internet Security (paid version), let alone their free crap. Newegg gave me a copy of it with a wireless router that I bought. A month or so, I guess, I installed it on XP Pro. It caused BSOD's, and consumed a lot of resources, as well as a lot of time updating.

After a week, I removed it, and threw the install disk, box & license in the garbage, because that was the best place that I could find for it. I wouldn't give it away, because if it's not fit for me to use, I won't push it on anyone else. That's just the way I am.

As far as MSE goes, although I only use it on XP Mode, it's very user friendly on XP, Vista & 7. It even has a control to limit your CPU usage during a scan. I left it at 50%. If only a virus scan were running, it may hit 35%.

You have something else running besides MSE for your CPU to be hitting 99%. Open your Task Manager, you should see what's consuming your CPU. Is your RAM hitting the ceiling too?

As far as what AVG "found" goes, they want you to think that you have something good. So that later (if they haven't already) they can try to sell you the full suite. Chances are, what AVG found was a false positive. My mother-in-law ran AVG (free) for at least 3 years, after removal, it took 2 complete sweeps with MSE & 2 with MBAM to clean up the garbage that AVG left behind.

I left MSE on her PC, along with the free version of MBAM & SAS, it's been clean since. The ESET Online Scanner verified that.

As far as AVG & Windows 7 goes, had you been on these forums when 7 was released in 2009, you'd have seen the countless posts were AVG was the root cause of BSOD's in Windows 7. Give it a little time, you'll see.

It wouldn't harm at all to run a full scan with MBAM & the free ESET Online Scanner, that can be found here:

ESET :: Get a FREE Online Virus Scan

This scan works best when ran from IE, as it gives you more scanning options. Bookmark & run it at least once a month, if you're going to run a free AV.

It sounds as though you're looking for a free AV. If by chance you don't like MSE, or AVG gives you trouble down the road (it will), Avast is among the best of the free ones. A new version was released this week.

avast! Free Antivirus | Download Antivirus Protection Software

150 million users can't be all wrong. Plus it's among the top ranked AV's on AV-Comparatives list. It's scanner is the fastest around. They also give you a 20 day trial of their Internet Security. If you hold out, oftentimes they'll offer it at $29.99 for 3 PC's. One function of it that I like is their sandbox browser. Even assuming that the computer it's ran on is malware infested, the SafeZone browser (Chrome) shields you while making a purchase, any keyloggers on the PC won't see what you're doing. And when you close the browser, the history goes with it.

I'm thinking of installing it on 1 of my several installs just for that feature. Or I could install it on both XP modes & the other elsewhere.

The bottom line is, AVG & Windows 7 together won't make for a happy marriage.

Cat

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