crimp said: THANKS ,MY COMPUTER PICKED UP A VIRUS ,AFTER SCANING WITH MCFEE AND AVG NEITHER FOUND THE VIRUS ,I DECIDED TO REFORMAT THE HD ,FOUND THIS SOFTWARE BY A CHANCE DECIDED TO GIVE IT A TRY AS A LOST HOPE ,WORKED LIKE A CHARM FOUND THREE TRIJANS AND REMOVED THEM Did the trojan automatically turn on the caps lock?
crimp said: THANKS ,MY COMPUTER PICKED UP A VIRUS ,AFTER SCANING WITH MCFEE AND AVG NEITHER FOUND THE VIRUS ,I DECIDED TO REFORMAT THE HD ,FOUND THIS SOFTWARE BY A CHANCE DECIDED TO GIVE IT A TRY AS A LOST HOPE ,WORKED LIKE A CHARM FOUND THREE TRIJANS AND REMOVED THEM
Three trojans? Sounds like the problem is between the keyboard and the chair.
guapo131 said: crimp said: THANKS ,MY COMPUTER PICKED UP A VIRUS ,AFTER SCANING WITH MCFEE AND AVG NEITHER FOUND THE VIRUS ,I DECIDED TO REFORMAT THE HD ,FOUND THIS SOFTWARE BY A CHANCE DECIDED TO GIVE IT A TRY AS A LOST HOPE ,WORKED LIKE A CHARM FOUND THREE TRIJANS AND REMOVED THEM Did the trojan automatically turn on the caps lock?
The funny thing is this one doesn't get along with Windows Firewall. After I installed it, Windows said my system does not have Firewall enable. I have to go manually re-enable the built-in firewall. This is a badly designed software when it just auto disabled Windows built-in firewall.
microkelvin said: The funny thing is this one doesn't get along with Windows Firewall. After I installed it, Windows said my system does not have Firewall enable. I have to go manually re-enable the built-in firewall. This is a badly designed software when it just auto disabled Windows built-in firewall.
Using firefox, the link redirects to a page that say "Not available in your country or region". Open the exact same link from IE without problems. I checked the locale and language settings of both my FF and IE and they are the same.
Altdotweb
Addicted Member
posted: Oct. 9, 2009 @ 12:45p
microkelvin said: The funny thing is this one doesn't get along with Windows Firewall. After I installed it, Windows said my system does not have Firewall enable. I have to go manually re-enable the built-in firewall. This is a badly designed software when it just auto disabled Windows built-in firewall.
That may not be the fault of the program. My firewall on Win 7 is working just fine and I didn't need to reset it after installing the program.
crimp said: THANKS ,MY COMPUTER PICKED UP A VIRUS ,AFTER SCANING WITH MCFEE AND AVG NEITHER FOUND THE VIRUS ,I DECIDED TO REFORMAT THE HD ,FOUND THIS SOFTWARE BY A CHANCE DECIDED TO GIVE IT A TRY AS A LOST HOPE ,WORKED LIKE A CHARM FOUND THREE TRIJANS AND REMOVED THEM
I think u need to buy a new keyboard also. Ur caps lock is broken...!
This is a great software. It is a scaled down MS Onecare. I've been using MS Onecare for over 5yrs now. MS discountinued Onecare and replaced it with this. I intend to switch to this when my subscription to Onecare expires in another 5 months. I am going to miss some features in Onecare that MS took out of this free version.
FastFood said: Using firefox, the link redirects to a page that say "Not available in your country or region". Open the exact same link from IE without problems. I checked the locale and language settings of both my FF and IE and they are the same.
No problems here opening link using Firefox 3.5.3.
FastFood said: Using firefox, the link redirects to a page that say "Not available in your country or region". Open the exact same link from IE without problems. I checked the locale and language settings of both my FF and IE and they are the same.
Obviously MS doesn't like FireFox. Many MS web pages give trouble with FireFox.
About the free part, maybe they give it to you free, but charge you to get rid of it
Stick with Norton IS or 360, which can both be found free from time to time after MIR or spend a little and get ESET and you can't go wrong.
Anyone know of a free antivirus for businesses? I've been using security essentials since Beta, and it's great... but you can't use it for anything but home based business.
BOSTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Security software maker Sophos Inc is introducing free programs that prevent sensitive data from getting outside corporate firewalls, taking on products sold by Symantec Corp (SYMC.O) and McAfee Inc (MFE.N).
Lane03 said: FastFood said: Using firefox, the link redirects to a page that say "Not available in your country or region". No problems here opening link using Firefox 3.5.3. Me neither. Perhaps Lane03's firefox is using a proxy?
crimp said: BOSTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Security software maker Sophos Inc is introducing free programs that prevent sensitive data from getting outside corporate firewalls, taking on products sold by Symantec Corp (SYMC.O) and McAfee Inc (MFE.N).
Sophos provides the antivirus part of Webroot Antivirus and Antispyware software with the antispyware part being Spy Sweeper. Got an Editors Choice Award at PC magazine in October issue. Another solid performer available free after MIR from time to time.
vaylon
Senior Member - 1K
posted: Oct. 9, 2009 @ 1:52p
Thanks op. Just got it and started testing and so far it seems very sublime. It stays on in the background without having a big hit on resources like some of the others.
Will wait for more in-depth and comparitive reviews before installing it on my PC. I'll keep my eye on it. Thanks for the heads up, OP.
Some "cons" based on the beta version from PCMag: Less effective against rootkits and scareware. Requires surprisingly large amount of disk space. Forces Windows Update into full automatic mode.
will it scan archives like zip, iso and bin? AVG doesn't. Avast does, but throws up tons of false positives for "compression bomb".
JohnHaj
New Member
posted: Oct. 9, 2009 @ 2:41p
microkelvin said: The funny thing is this one doesn't get along with Windows Firewall. After I installed it, Windows said my system does not have Firewall enable. I have to go manually re-enable the built-in firewall. This is a badly designed software when it just auto disabled Windows built-in firewall. I have installed MSSE on over 45 machines so far and I have never seen the firewall issue you mention. It may have been an issue with your particular PC.
JohnHaj said: microkelvin said: The funny thing is this one doesn't get along with Windows Firewall. After I installed it, Windows said my system does not have Firewall enable. I have to go manually re-enable the built-in firewall. This is a badly designed software when it just auto disabled Windows built-in firewall. I have installed MSSE on over 45 machines so far and I have never seen the firewall issue you mention. It may have been an issue with your particular PC. I've installed on 3 laptops, and I got the same thing on all 3. So what do you think?
JohnHaj said: microkelvin said: The funny thing is this one doesn't get along with Windows Firewall. After I installed it, Windows said my system does not have Firewall enable. I have to go manually re-enable the built-in firewall. This is a badly designed software when it just auto disabled Windows built-in firewall.I have installed MSSE on over 45 machines so far and I have never seen the firewall issue you mention. It may have been an issue with your particular PC.Installed it on about 12 systems (including the beta releases), haven't seen that issue with the firewall either and I haven't seen that problem mentioned in any reviews either.
Aren't the words Microsoft and "light on resources" mutually exclusive?
Surprisingly it is a pretty solid software and light on resources too. I know, Microsoft is not supposed to do that. No issue with the firewall and it is running smoothly on a few XP, Vista 32-bit and 64-bit machines.
You can say if Microsoft sets its mind to grab a chunk of the anti-virus software market it can come up with a lean and mean piece of software and free too.
No nagging buy the commercial version please message as with the AVG Free one either.
1lossir said: crimp said: Microsoft claims 1.5 million downloads in one week
And 1.45 million uninstalls a week later.
That number is meaningless. Back in the "good old days" record companies pressed and shipped tons of records from "stiff" artists so they could get a "gold " status but in reality practically all were eventually returned to the labels. Thus came the expression "it shipped gold but returned platinum".
that will be true for a junky product,all the reviews are solid ,and itis as good or better than any thing alse even the for pay ones
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