Microsoft Security Essentials

[JohnnyPanic]

Under Windows 7 my old anti-virus program (CA) keep falling foul of the UAC and not running on startup or not updating properly. I installed MS Security Essentials on my home laptop at the weekend and all seems ok.

I'd like to get it installed on my work lappy, but am a bit more cautious due the connectivity to various servers. Wondering if I should wait until it's a bit more mature.

Anyone tried it for longer? Any problems or issues come to light?

[onlynik]

JohnnyPanic said:

Under Windows 7 my old anti-virus program (CA) keep falling foul of the UAC and not running on startup or not updating properly. I installed MS Security Essentials on my home laptop at the weekend and all seems ok.

I'd like to get it installed on my work lappy, but am a bit more cautious due the connectivity to various servers. Wondering if I should wait until it's a bit more mature.

Anyone tried it for longer? Any problems or issues come to light?

Had it running for a couple of months (maybe 6 weeks) on Win 7, no conflicts so far, Kaspersky had some issues with the XP virtual machine

[TheD]

I haven't had a problem with it and been running it for weeks

[sjg]

No problems so far. But I would question why the account you log into your work laptop with would have the sort of priviledges over servers that would cause those sorts of worries.

[JohnnyPanic]

sjg said:

No problems so far. But I would question why the account you log into your work laptop with would have the sort of priviledges over servers that would cause those sorts of worries.

Mainly because the IT guy only looks after the Macs and the PCs are left to me

This probably isn't wise, but I have a common workgroup user account with admin rights on all internal windows machines & servers

And they all have IIS running on them (there are 4 machines in total).

Edited by JohnnyPanic on Monday 9th November 17:05

[sjg]

Assuming you're on a domain, just have a regular user account for logging in to your machine. Put it in your machine's Administrators group if you want. Then have a separate domain admin account and use runas for any tools you use that need more privileges.

[paddyhasneeds]

I thought the EULA on Security Essentials was home use only?

[Man-At-Arms]

paddyhasneeds said:

I thought the EULA on Security Essentials was home use only?

[JohnnyPanic]

paddyhasneeds said:

I thought the EULA on Security Essentials was home use only?

No idea. Have only installed it at home so far. I clearly just clicked on the "Yes of course I accept the terms & conditions without even giving them the briefest glance like 99.9% of other people" button"

[paddyhasneeds]

JohnnyPanic said:

paddyhasneeds said:

I thought the EULA on Security Essentials was home use only?

No idea. Have only installed it at home so far. I clearly just clicked on the "Yes of course I accept the terms & conditions without even giving them the briefest glance like 99.9% of other people" button"

Fair comment. The EULA is for home use only, I'm not getting preachy just pointing it out as if the company you work for is into that kind of thing I wouldn't want you in the st over £20 worth of software.

Head over to Wilders Security Forum and you'll find all you ever wanted to know (and didn't want to know) about A/V software including a very large thread on MSE.

[JohnnyPanic]

paddyhasneeds said:

JohnnyPanic said:

paddyhasneeds said:

I thought the EULA on Security Essentials was home use only?

No idea. Have only installed it at home so far. I clearly just clicked on the "Yes of course I accept the terms & conditions without even giving them the briefest glance like 99.9% of other people" button"

Fair comment. The EULA is for home use only, I'm not getting preachy just pointing it out as if the company you work for is into that kind of thing I wouldn't want you in the st over £20 worth of software.

Head over to Wilders Security Forum and you'll find all you ever wanted to know (and didn't want to know) about A/V software including a very large thread on MSE.

TBH my company wouldn't have a clue! If a virus spread round the Windows machines they'd ask "are you using an anti-virus program". If I said "yep, Microsoft Security Essentials" I'd just get the response "See Microsoft's rubbish, PC's are rubbish, do you want a Mac yet?".

That's designers for you...

[paddyhasneeds]

JohnnyPanic said:

paddyhasneeds said:

JohnnyPanic said:

paddyhasneeds said:

I thought the EULA on Security Essentials was home use only?

No idea. Have only installed it at home so far. I clearly just clicked on the "Yes of course I accept the terms & conditions without even giving them the briefest glance like 99.9% of other people" button"

Fair comment. The EULA is for home use only, I'm not getting preachy just pointing it out as if the company you work for is into that kind of thing I wouldn't want you in the st over £20 worth of software.

Head over to Wilders Security Forum and you'll find all you ever wanted to know (and didn't want to know) about A/V software including a very large thread on MSE.

TBH my company wouldn't have a clue! If a virus spread round the Windows machines they'd ask "are you using an anti-virus program". If I said "yep, Microsoft Security Essentials" I'd just get the response "See Microsoft's rubbish, PC's are rubbish, do you want a Mac yet?".

That's designers for you...

No worries. MSE seems to have a decent reputation despite all the usual "It's Microsoft" prejudices (the same ones that stop me taking their corporate A/V product seriously if I'm totally honest about it).

If you have more than a couple of PCs and at least one server, I'd bite the bullet and spend a hundred quid and get a business license for something like Avira or NOD32 and have them update/report to the server.