On your past statement of; it's not adequate for reckless behavior. Nothing is. If you go looking for trouble, you're going to find it. The arguments here are strange. Some say, you shouldn't use it because MS makes both the OS and the AV. But couldn't that also make them the ideal org to make the AV software? Some say it doesn't compare to top tier AV products. Like what? Norton? McaFee? Seem like every malware infested home computer I get has a "top tier" commercial product protecting it.
AV is voodoo. It's a dark art. No AV out there is 100%. But as the free ones go, for personal or SoHo, MSSE is as good as any. I don't have to deal with a bunch of people calling once a year to update their AVG that only mentions the commercial product when a new version comes out, or the full screen once a day banner ads Avira tosses at you. If none of that matters to you, use Comodo. It's free for personal or commercial use per it's license. -- Mike Gill From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 11:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Bink.nu | Free Microsoft Security Essentials Coming for Small Businesses - Bink.nu I don't follow what you mean here. My gripe is home-users using MSE with a sense of assurance of adequate protection. For the record, I don't hate Microsoft. But I have a couple of axes to grind against a couple of their product groups - just as I do with other companies. -- ME2 On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Steven Peck <sep...@gmail.com> wrote: Not sure how it does that unless you just hate Microsoft and all that it stands for. On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr <michealespin...@gmail.com> wrote: Which goes back to my opinion of it for the residential/consumer. Its not adequate protection for the generally reckless and uninformed behavior of the general public. -- ME2 On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Steven Peck <sep...@gmail.com> wrote: MSE is not currently for Business PCs. Using it on them violates the license. While they have announced a version for small businesses, it is not yet licensed for that purpose so it's good that you are a responsibile engineer and not viloating the ToS and potentially exposing your company to a liability it shouldn't have. As for work, that's why Microsoft provides WSUS so you can remain responsible in testing your environment. Steven On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming <angu...@geoapps.com> wrote: On 23 Sep 2010 at 15:33, Micheal Espinola Jr wrote: > Not trying to be terribly anal here, but there are a few things I don't > trust to free products, and this is at the top of the list. > > MSE doesn't chart well comparatively imho, and from what I see in the > San Diego area, it doesn't perform well IRL[1]. One other thing -- for MSE to work and update, "Automatic Updates" have to be completely enabled. I don't do this for work PCs as I don't want an entire company to go down when MS pushes out a bad update. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
