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Thread ID: 103592 2009-09-29 03:52:00 Microsoft Security Essentials Beta leonidas5 (2306) PC World Chat
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815087 2009-10-03 03:22:00 I see when you install it that it goes thru the crappy WGA test before installing.. paulw (1826)
815088 2009-10-03 04:54:00 Yup sure does. Altho, like anything else made by MS, that can be fixed Speedy Gonzales (78)
815089 2009-10-03 09:53:00 Yeah, though WGA has never been *reliable* ;-)

That said, I've noticed an improvement, over all of McAfee, AVG & Avast machines. It's good to be covered for Spyware, Trojans & Viruses all-in-one :D
Chilling_Silence (9)
815090 2009-10-03 19:06:00 Y It's good to be covered for Spyware, Trojans & Viruses all-in-one :D

Hah.
Thats crap. Nothing does it all.Thats one of the things I don't like - it's insistent that you remove everything else. AV fair enough, but does it co-exist happily with other AS products?
pctek (84)
815091 2009-10-03 19:41:00 As I mentioned before I have not tried this software as it won't install under WinXP Pro 64 bit.

For the benefit of other members of this forum here is a link to a review.

www.howtogeek.com

They seem to give it a thumbs up.
Sweep (90)
815092 2009-10-03 20:47:00 Actually yeah, it was quite happy living alongside Spybot, Spyware Doctor & Avast on one machine ... Chilling_Silence (9)
815093 2009-10-04 04:17:00 Some people are a little weird.

I had a phone call yesterday from a woman who ( just last week ) bought a copy of WinXP Home as the person that came before me had installed a pirated copy of WinXP Pro and she was getting messages about WGA etc.

So just recently got back home after saving all data and a reformat and reinstall all applications.

I have no idea why she did not buy a legal copy of Pro in which case I could have just changed the key I think.

She did have Avast but I decided to use MSE instead as I have seen reasonable reviews.

If you do the right thing then you download the latest defs which BTW is a 30 Meg download in case anyone needs to know the file size.

I may add that heaps of people are trying to download the same as I say this. I'm just one more as I'm doing it as I type on my dual boot system.
Sweep (90)
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