Microsoft Security Essentials

Is it written somewhere, that is, how can we ensure that info? Because MSE seems to me like Avira Free which lacks web protection.

 

it has it and a whole lot more.

 

No, it doesn't as far as I have seen or read. It scans memory and the PC file system for write and/or access of files.
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/msescan/thread/3958fddb-0b8e-4883-be73-bc350024541a

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/msescan/thread/52cd5711-6fb1-4bcd-9d07-000f1f65fe21

 

MSE has HTTP scanning, I can't understand why I need to prove these things over and over again? Search the original main thread and you will see the HTML/Exploit detections that shows it scans HTTP traffic.

As to your 2nd link about emails, MSE doesn't have marketing gimmicks, people fooled into thinking these are needed amuse me. MSE is more than capable of standing it's ground without these and that's what makes it so light. It doesn't need to compete with other AV's and so the dev's don't feel the need to "sell" it with more and more useless features.

 

Exploit detections can be achieved by heuritics and memory or write scanning of MSE. I have yet to see someone 'prove' (as you put it) that the http stream itself is intercepted and parsed to detect these. Showing detection is not the same as http stream scanning.

Edit: I'm a little surprised by your defensive nature. The second link I included was to show the email stream was not being scanned. Not a problem to me at all but it also explains why http scanning may not be included - it is redunant and not necessary by the same logic if heuristics is capable of handling js/drive-by download problems.

 

Does this video help? I am not sure- but it looks like MSE stops I-frames.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD1WfImw97E

 

I turned on the PC yesterday and MSE was eating up my CPU. Anyone else experiencing this? I did report it.

 

I'm annoyed I have to take a defensive stance when I shouldn't because people should stop asking the same questions! Just one of my pet peeves.

 

On x64 it is the fastest freeware AV, as fast as Bitdefender x64 paid

When you are a gamer and are on x64 and have an AV, check this out before your lisence expires (renewals are cheaper than new ones) and decide to go freeware or pay for a top performer on the CPU/Security aixle.

 

On Win 32,it is very slow.Scanning,updating and cleaning all are slow.

 

I am sure that on the x64 platform the developers had much more insight information than the competing AV's, have no idea why performance is reported so differently (x64 vs x32)

 

On xp pro i find it to be a cpu hog, on vista it works fine and on Windows 7 it works very well too.

I just do not like it for xp, but with microsoft pushing windows 7 I would bet it was made for windows 7 and vista and not really for xp since in Microsoft's opinion xp will be date once windows 7 comes out except for those who purchase the pro or ultimate versions and need xp for older apps.

robin

 

wer can i download MSE?

 

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Microsoft-Security-Essentials.shtml

 

thx for the link

 

It worked fine on my XP machine for a few weeks and then, one day- 100% CPU usage.

 

It is beta...

 

As far as I know, this is the final beta before release, ofcourse nothing will be fixed when people just say "100% CPU usage uninstalling" and don't file bug reports.

 

Strange. I never had those 100% cpu usage problems. I have the latest beta running on WinXP (sp3) and Vista Home(sp1) machine. No problems at all. The only issue I had was the signature updates. It took about 3 days before the software started updating on a daily basis. Not sure why, but it's updating regularly now. Very good job M$.

Ice

 

Been running MSE alongside Prevx and PC Tools firewall without issue for a week or so.

Question- IIRC- Windows Defender had the options of choosing the basic membership or advanced membership w/ Spynet. With the Spynet option WD incorporated a HIPS-like feature. Is that the same case with MSE? I believe MSE incorporates WD so would choosing the Spynet option enable the HIPS-like feature?

 

Running Forefront CS here right now on XP 32 bit w/1GB RAM. It is taking about 1750kb of memory. CPU cycles are negligible.

 

No everyone of the post/info I have read, supposes that MSE has/uses the same intrusion detection agents as WindowsDefender, also with lowest spynet membership. Only difference with WD is that you can't configure them individually.

 

I just started using MSE and quite like it. My computer seems somewhat quicker. My MsMpEng.exe (Antimalware Service Executable) is using 55,300K of private working set memory and msseces.exe is using 3690K as I type this.

 

We've experinced the 100% cpu problem on 5 test machines, so you're not alone.

 

I've also had the high CPU usage. I found out through using process monitoring tools that it was quietly scanning large zip files on my hard drive. The interface gave no indication that it was doing anything. If I excluded the file the CPU usage went back to normal. I don't like programs that don't tell me what they are doing.