Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0.657.0 Final

I don't see why you see it a poor decision. For you, it can be annoying, but for so many other people it's a way of keeping them alert to updates, and not only for MSE.

I understand that you may find it annoying, but you also need to have in consideration the needs of other people, who don't even realize that need such needs. (sorry if it sound redundant. )

 

Well, yes, I'm just one person with one opinion and one way of doing things. I understand that

My point was that MSE updates itself with or without Windows Update, so making it tie into windows update this way is a little redundant, adds frustration for those who do things a little different than Microsoft default, and takes away from MSE's "quiet" operation a little bit: I've had to interact with it more in the last week than I have in the last year.

So, it's my opinion and I'm sticking to it

 

Yes, that is kind of stupid, bound the updates to Windows Update as well... but, thinking better... maybe their purpose is precisely to make people more aware of the need to update their system...

You could create a task to update MSE from X in X time; I think it would reduce the amount of warnings you'd be getting from Windows Update.

 

I set up a planned task to have it look for an update every two hours and I don't get the little yellow shield icon for updates. You might want to try that out. The updates do seem to be available quite often, so I don't understand why the default is once every 24 hours.

 

You need to download 60 MB of definitions ...every 1 hour, 2 hours, etc.
Is heavy traffic on the connection.

 

Doesn't that only happen when you first update it, upon installation? The 60MB definitions, that is.

 

I personally don't see that much traffic during a def update.

 

Only the first time, and after every time there's an engine update, which is once every 40-50 days or so.

Daily updates are tiny and download in about 2 seconds.

 

Good question,
Unfortunately, I have not seen support for incremental updates in MSE..

 

I just told you otherwise.

 

Same here. If they were 60 MB that would be even worse than the old Antivir that downloaded the whole app at each update.

 

lol yeah i remember that

 

Just incase there was any doubt:



edit: clearly shows the size is very small.

 

Just hide the KB2310138 update. MSE will auto-update fine and silently on its own. I heard people saying v2 updates definitions more often (>1)?

 

What? I was proving the size wasn't 60mb. Why would I care about hiding it.

 

@elapsed
Sorry about that. My reply was directed to @ShaneR34. I meant if he hid that update, AU won't bother him about it, no AU pop-up for it.

 

Actually, I need to take back everything I said.

Somehow, either by mistake or windows getting funky, I had "Give me recommended updates the same way I receive important updates" option checked within Windows Update settings.

Once I cleared that check everything was back to normal.

 

Seems I have this ticked also, maybe an oversight in MSEv2? Don't recall this being ticked whilst using v2 beta.

 

I'm inclined to believe that it was actually me. I did a fresh install of W7 about two months ago, but just got around to doing the post-install optimization I normally do last week. I know I was in there checking my settings, so I wouldn't be surprised that I ticked it in error.

But...who's to say.

 

What does Network Traffic Inspection do? This works only with IE or works with Google Chrome too?

 

That's unrelated to IE. The feature that was related to IE.... was something like Malicious Scripting Protection... It has been removed from MSE, due to some users complaining about issues. At least, it has been removed in the beta stage. Not sure if it was added again, if issues have been solved.

Network Traffic Inspection is related to exploit attempts to known security vulnerabilities.

-http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/12/mse-20-arrives-with-heuristic-scanning-network-traffic-inspection.ars

-edit-

Websites seem to be mentioning that MSE v2 has the IE integration feature, but according to some relatives of mine, to whom I installed it, it does not.

Microsoft killed it in version 2. Version 1 had it, though.

 

Do you guys use MSE 'only' as protection or any other software like Spyshelter, Zemana and other software along with it (I have a key for Zemana but too afraid to try with MSE) ...i am just curious ? Happy New Year.

 

No, it was introduced in the first v2 beta, then killed off later as far as I can see.

 

I use MSE together with Prevx and have no problems.

 

On one machine, MSE, AppGuard and KeyScrambler; very light and no problems.