Microsoft Security Essentials Scores Incredibly Well in New Antivirus

I used McAfee aka CrApafee security suite bloatware briefly a few years back it was free from my ISP and it was a resource hog and the updates consistently caused problems in win 7 on my configuration .

I moved on to Avast free and Malwarebytes and aside from the annoying pop ups Avast free was fine and not as bloated as the unecessary security suite bloatware .

On 3 Windows 10 RTM PC's here including this dual boot Windows 10 RTM /10575 box I use Win. Defender plus Mbam free plus Mbam Anti-Exploit .


Nothing's foolproof though and sometimes it too late by the time the resident AV and and malware scanners recognize something new out in the wild but so far using windows 10 test builds since 10029 in late Feb. and later RTM as well no significant virus or malware infections here and these 3 PC's are used a lot by myself and the family .

OTOH the i7 workstation is still on 7 x64 ( for a number of good reasons ☻) and using AVG free and Mbam free plus Mbam Anti-Exploit .

Lastly I almost always use a Windows standard user account on the web instead of the admin accounts .
I've got my bootloader set to default to the std. user account in 10575 on this box it's easy to switch over to the admin account or restart and load RTM or save something in those user accounts if I need to .

Whatever one uses or doesn't use for real time protection, or "protection", it's best to go thru whole system with a fine comb using several other programs available that address specific threats . Would be surprised what can wiggle out from underneath the stone. I do that every time I make full system backup, suspect something or get bored.

CountMike said:

Whatever one uses or doesn't use for real time protection, or "protection", it's best to go thru whole system with a fine comb using several other programs available that address specific threats . Would be surprised what can wiggle out from underneath the stone. I do that every time I make full system backup, suspect something or get bored.

Right .....That's true it never hurts to look around with a fine tooth comb like you say ,know what you are supposed to have and be able to spot something that you're not and scrub things now and then . Sometimes stuff can sneak in nothing's foolproof and downloads like to piggyback stuff these days and then there are the banner ad drive by's even at the most legitimate websites . Cnet's download dot com and Softpedia and a lot of hosted free downloads in general are toolbar hijacker and or malware geysers .

linw said:

Someone has zapped Swagger? Good job.

You mean he has been banned

OldMike65 said:

I use 3rd party AV's for years, just like lots of us. I have 3 right now, 2 of those 3 run together. My 3rd one is SuperantiSpyware with a life time license. MY Malwarebytes Pro also has a lifetime license. I have seen MB miss some pup's and SuperAntiSpyware catch some that MB didn't. So I see nothing wrong in having more than one av app installed. As far as that "other" persons statements, its just not worth our time to reply those comments. I agree with most all of the comments on this thread. Whatever works for your system and makes you feel secure is fine with me. :)

I used Avast free and and MSE /Defender together and AVG free with MSE together along with mbam on a couple of Win 7 x64 boxes here for a few years no problems attributable to that .

Convention says not to run two resident AV programs together although they were doing that at Cnet or one of the writers was IIRC. I just set mutual exclusions for each respective AV program and never had a problem aside from a nasty Conflict malware variant on one of the boxes 6 months before any of the AV programs heard of it , it was a bear to clean out I had to use several one time extra strength cleaners and edit the reg and a lot of files afterwards that stiff was even in the root directory, or root folder I would have been able to do a clean install much easier.

FWIW IE 11 and Chrome survived after some cleaning but F/F was totally destroyed beyond repair and I wasn't even using it .

It came in a drive by from a legitimate nationally know forum website page it even got though the ad blockers and lot of folks without another PC went dark and either way had to wipe their drives and re install.

IIRC MSE vs Avast and AVG had different Heuristic behavior patterns in both cases so the idea was you got more coverage that way . I don't know if you can do that in Windows 10 though and most of the MS software engineers at Windows Insider forum are clueless I honestly don't know what they get paid for not to mention viruses are allegedly becoming less popular and more malware is appearing .