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Anyone seeing problems with MS Security Essentials recently?

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tomos:
what I have seen lately, but forgot to mention, was delays/short-freezes with FARR (typed letters not showing beyond the first one or two), with an associated CPU flurry which turned out to be MSSE - presumably checking out whatever was on the list. Not always, but often.

Stoic Joker:
If it don't start behaving soon, its gonna get executed permanently.
-Stoic Joker (September 21, 2011, 09:00 PM)
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Ah, interesting. I'm not actually seeing any CPU spikes, during the freezes or otherwise. But I've burned through most AVs on the market, and they only go from bad to worse. Not much left to try anymore. MSSE used to be a pretty friendly neighbor before this.-tranglos (September 21, 2011, 09:04 PM)
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I hear ya man, I coined the (derisive) phrase "Baby Sitter Suite" during my quest to find an AV that wasn't more of a hassel than most viruses. MSE really hasn't been that bad overall ... Its just picked some really bad times here lately to act up. I've got it running on close to 100 machines at various (SMB) locations, and there haven't been any major (mass) complaints, or really any minor ones I can attribute to MSE. But it has earned itself some negative attention as of late from me due to the pissing contest usage spikes lagging the machine.

Just out of curiosity, do you have any open/save dialog addons that it could be having a problem with? Its shenanigans are always purposful-ly directed at something specific ... From what I've seen.

tranglos:
Just out of curiosity, do you have any open/save dialog addons that it could be having a problem with? Its shenanigans are always purposful-ly directed at something specific ... From what I've seen.
-Stoic Joker (September 22, 2011, 07:03 AM)
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I've been wrecking my brains trying to recall something I may have installed or find what specific thing could be prodding it. I don't run anything that modifies the dialogs, nothing at all.

I dropped out of the homegroup, because my wife's computer is off more than it is on, so I thought maybe Windows was looking for it, but that didn't help, and in any case the delay should then be at opening the dialog, not at closing it.

I checked Actual Window Manager, which is great but does unspeakable things to all windows. It doesn't touch the open/save dialogs, but it sure detects them and thinks about them when they pop up before it decides what to do. In the end, shutting AWM down didn't change a thing.

daddydave:
You wouldn't happen to have any old network mappings in My Computer that are offline, would you? I've not had the occasion to see this in Win7, but I've seen in Windows XP where the file dialogs take forever to come up for that reason.

tranglos:
You wouldn't happen to have any old network mappings in My Computer that are offline, would you? I've not had the occasion to see this in Win7, but I've seen in Windows XP where the file dialogs take forever to come up for that reason.
-daddydave (September 22, 2011, 10:41 AM)
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No, no stale mappings that I can find.

I do have a mapped network drive and another external drive on FireWire, and often it takes a few seconds before the system can access them, but that's not it. I've also replaced my old ADSL modem + router with a single combo device (Fritz!Box, unlikely name, but the thing is genuinely made in Germany, runs Linux and it rocks!), but the freezing started occurring well after that change.

It's true though that when I changed the routers, Windows created a new LAN and appended '2' to the name. But the old network name isn't shown anywhere I could delete it from. Still, any issues should only slow down the opening, not the closing of the dialogs. I never get a freeze on opening them.

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