Reviews of Microsoft Security Essentials

[Glenn9999]

As people may or may not know, this software came out of beta just recently. The main question is if there has been anyone trying this out. Also, what are the general impression of it, and do you feel it's worth your time (on a local PC level, or corporate? - I don't know the answer to how deployable it is)?

And the other oddball question: it says "malware protection". Is this just Defender and the old anti-virus package repackaged? Or something reasonably different?

Measurement is not management.

 

[kjv1611]

Here's a review on it, in case you didn't see it:

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/44142/140/

The reviewer liked it.

I imagine it'll take some time to really see how effective it is against the various threats out there, since it's so new.

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[rlshoe]

I am running it on Win 7 and like it

 

[xit]

Been running it for a while on 7 & Vista, seems to be proving out OK.

xit

 

[bookouri]

Does anybody know if it will work correctly if your users dont have administrative access to their machines? Lots of things run under the authority and access level of the logged on user. If you have multiple users and one user gets their files infected, but another user is logged on when the daily scan runs, will it have authority to clean the other users infected files?