yeah I was thinking of starting a thread about MSE (microsofts security essentials) asking who here has tried it and if they had any personal comparisons.

when it first came out I read some very good reviews/tests on it and one of the guys at work said it played very well on a very old xp box that had very little memory in it. And being that I sometimes fix peoples boxes and since most of them don't want to pay for an AV, I'll put antivir or avast on there (AVG is never an option, imo.. and clam AV.. yuk..) ... so I was thinking that if MSE was halfway decent, at least I'd have another option.

now I used to have a collection of malware samples that I'd been saving up for tests, it was near 2 gig's worth.. but alas, that hdd bit the bullet .. hdd regenerator and spinrite couldn't get it going. and where I put the dvd of those files, I don't know.. might have left it in someones dvd drive. *cries* .. so hard to say personally how well MSE is doing.

I've installed it on 3 boxes, and on one of the boxes, it would hang when it got to finding something. on a box that a friend was fxing , he said he ran it and MSE didn't find the infection (a rogue AV.. like antivirus 2010) , and that malwarebytes picked up and removed it lickity split. so I'm starting to have my doubts.

to me, the two best AV's have always been NOD32 and kaspersky.. kaspersky being my favorite in leading edge defifntions/removal of the baddies and NOD having an almost equal detection rate but with a faster scan time. In the last year or so tho.. since I didn't want to pay for renewal, on my 2 laptops and one desktop,(and on my kids laptops) I've been running with no AV.. I'll just use malwarebytes, hijackthis, kaspersky's AVP tool if something comes up.. if it's something a little bit more intense, combofix will get thrown at it..

so... does anyone here "do MSE" ? care to share ups and downs ?

and for grins and giggles.. anyone ever try that chinese cloud AV called "rising" ?