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Thread ID: 105403 2009-11-30 21:38:00 Free Microsoft Antivirus mzee (3324) Press F1
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835301 2009-12-20 03:11:00 Just installed on Step son's comp, he had Avast which flagged a trojan in win32 folder but couldn't get rid of it. So installed MSE ran a quick scan it pulled and deleted 4 Trojans. Done some other scans with TR and Malware bytes all came up clean so it seems MSE did the trick. I have found it only slows systems down if you have it set to do a scheduled scan and not ticked the box to run only when idle gary67 (56)
835302 2009-12-20 03:17:00 Thats what I've heard, but that cant be the case. I disabled scheduling and the options under it. It still hogs system resources and the cpu usage goes to 100% Speedy Gonzales (78)
835303 2009-12-20 03:28:00 On my backup machine it was hogging resources so I just turned of the scheduled scan completely and now it runs sweet gary67 (56)
835304 2009-12-20 03:46:00 Must have been a screwup in windows 7 x64 then. Since thats what it was happening in. I've gone back to vista x64, till the probs in win 7 x64 have been fixed Speedy Gonzales (78)
835305 2009-12-20 03:56:00 Run this (support.microsoft.com)

Thanks worked a treat.
rebels181 (14841)
835306 2009-12-20 03:57:00 Sweet ! Speedy Gonzales (78)
835307 2009-12-20 04:48:00 Odd I'm running it in XP home 32 bit on 2 machines, Win 7 64 bit and Vista 32 bit and since tweaking the settings all are fine. It was the XP machines that gave me trouble initially gary67 (56)
835308 2009-12-20 04:54:00 I've put it back on Vista x64, to test it, and the file that usually goes too 100% hasnt moved for say the last 1/2 hr - 40 mins (its still on 00). Whereas Win7 x64 went to 100% CPU usage nearly every 1-2 mins ! Speedy Gonzales (78)
835309 2009-12-21 16:56:00 8 MB



Should do :)

My XP home fell over when I tried MS antivirus. Runs fine now that I've removed it.
Vince (406)
835310 2010-01-05 07:29:00 It does not update fast enough on my computer. Going back to AVG free Computermaster888 (15476)
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