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Stoic Joker:
In my experience and in the experience of many other people I know who have had to work on many computers that are 'protected' with MSE that has the green icon, no pop ups, and even doing a full scan on the PC tells you that your computer is safe, all the while malware is causing popup ads and other evilness to prosper on the computer.-Innuendo (September 23, 2015, 05:29 PM)
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How many of the people in that test group were running with administrative rights?
x16wda:
MSE is the consumer version of Microsoft Forefront Security, which BTW, is a discontinued product. We're saddled with it at work & at least once every couple weeks the desktop IT team has to spring into action to go cleanse a virus off someone's workstation. I rarely have extremely strong opinions about something preferring to each person to have their own tastes, but MSE is garbage and I'll defend my position to the bitter end.
-Innuendo (September 23, 2015, 05:29 PM)
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I'll toss my two cents in. Same situation here, in fact SCEP (same stuff but tied to SCCM) allowed a bunch of boxes to pick up Conficker just this week. (Not even anything interesting - Conficker for gosh sakes!!)
Innuendo:
How many of the people in that test group were running with administrative rights?-Stoic Joker (September 24, 2015, 06:34 AM)
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That I couldn't say, but are you taking the position that making sure administrative rights are not granted in order for AV to be effective is a valid requirement?
Innuendo:
So we have different experiences. That's cool. But I have it installed along with winpatrol and malwarebytes on 9 computers. That combination along with an aware user has stopped everything that has tried to infect. With an unaware user, not so much. So each person to their own experiences and preferences. You can argue the point, but I won't argue along with you on this. :-\-wraith808 (September 23, 2015, 05:47 PM)
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Oh, we're not arguing...just a friendly discussion. Honest. :)
However, you are running complementary programs alongside MSE in order to provide accurate security. WinPatrol and MalwareBytes are both awesome products. Have you ever seen MSE stop anything from installing other than a keygen/crack, though?
Innuendo:
I'll toss my two cents in. Same situation here, in fact SCEP (same stuff but tied to SCCM) allowed a bunch of boxes to pick up Conficker just this week. (Not even anything interesting - Conficker for gosh sakes!!)-x16wda (September 24, 2015, 06:50 AM)
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Thank you, x16wda. Yes, SCEP basically is the same as Forefront which is the same as MSE (I say this for the benefit of those who do not know). I am not sure where the communication breakdown is, though. If one's anti-malware solution can not prevent infection by something that was released in 2008 it's time to re-evaluate one's choice of protection.
People use MSE because it comes with Windows and it's free. If one must use something free, I suggest checking out BitDefender Free. It's very light on resources, has won many awards, and comes in either at the top or near the top of all independent AV tests.
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