Microsoft Security Essentials vs. AVG

breakfast roll

I have AVG on my computer and thinking of removing it and downloading Microsoft Security Essentials instead. Is this a good move?

bhickey

breakfast roll wrote: »

I have AVG on my computer and thinking of removing it and downloading Microsoft Security Essentials instead. Is this a good move?

100% yes. Do it. Now!

Biggins

Yes.
I agree. Move to MSE.

chin_grin

+1 for MSE. I also switched from AVG to it a few months ago and haven't had any problems (virus or app related) since!

Alanstrainor

+1 for MSE.

It doesn't bother you at all, it just does it's job in the background and it works perfectly for me.

TheQ47

+1 from me too. Changed over about 5/6 months ago, haven't looked back. AVG was fine, but seemed to be a drain on resources. Now I don't even know that MSE is running.

Gadgetman496

+1 for MSE from here too.

PogMoThoin

Only if You have a legit copy of Windows

rhonin

I switched to MSE from Kaspersky and have found it works really well. It doesn't hog my system either which is a bonus.

MarcotheGoat

Hey I recently instaled AVG 9 and think it is the best Anti virus, firewall, spyware software out there, my opinion

Outkast_IRE

i have had a few things slip past the MSE but its pretty damn good far better than some of the free antivirus programs out there.

DublinWriter

Funnily enough, I'm installing MSE as I'm typing this.

Removed AVG 8.5 last week after noticing that as soon as I connected to the Internet that my upload rate started going through the roof - within 5 minutes there would be 10Meg of data gone upstream without even opening a browser, equally there was quite a substantial about of data going downstream too.

I thought I had a virus and finally using TCPVIEW I tracked it down to the AVG Link Scanner process, a component of the AVG suite. Lots of people have had this issue.

This is a particularly dangerous thing for people on metered connections and it also borks your bandwidth.

I used to like AVG around V.7, but it's become so much bloatware and a real resource hogger now.

Cryos

MarcotheGoat wrote: »

Hey I recently instaled AVG 9 and think it is the best Anti virus, firewall, spyware software out there, my opinion

MSE 2.0 will have the above features, im currently running it as apart of connect testing:

https://connect.microsoft.com/securityessentials

ciano1

What about switching from Avira antivir to MSE??

userfriendly

ciano1 wrote: »

What about switching from Avira antivir to MSE??

You won't get the annoying pop up from Avira anymore!

+1 for MSE

BostonB

Another AVG to MSE switcher here. AVG was killing all the old machines I support, so I tried MSE and so far no problems, much lighter it seems.

youcancallmeal

Does anyone know if MSE comes with Windows 7 or do you have to download it separately from here?

Gadgetman496

youcancallme>al wrote: »

Does anyone know if MSE comes with Windows 7 or do you have to download it separately from here?

You have to down it separately.

maccer666

I find that having both avg and mse installed works great.

Gadgetman496

maccer666 wrote: »

I find that having both avg and mse installed works great.

Absolute madness IMO :eek:

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userfriendly

maccer666 wrote: »

I find that having both avg and mse installed works great.

Yeah that's not recommended, having 2 or more anti-virus products on a system will cause them to conflict with each other and cause problems.

trellheim

MSE ftw, beats AVG, sophos and Trend Micro.

only sophos wins for me on emergency recoveries always.

nice1franko

mse > avg

maccer666

gadgetman496 wrote: »

Absolute madness IMO :eek:

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no issues here,had them running side by side on my second machine just to test them together and i was quite surprised considering all the talk of not running two anti-virus at the same time.

Gadgetman496

maccer666 wrote: »

no issues here,had them running side by side on my second machine just to test them together and i was quite surprised considering all the talk of not running two anti-virus at the same time.

Whatever floats your boat I guess

corpo3030

I have Comodo firewall and MSE on my computer, so far so good.