Comments on: Our Look at Microsoft Security Essentials Beta

By: Mysticgeek

Mysticgeek — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:19:18 +0000

For those who didn’t get it before the 75k cutoff you can download is from Softpedia:

http://www.softpedia.com/progD.....31683.html

By: whiplash55

whiplash55 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:16:38 +0000

Its running at about 53MBs for all users which is 1/4 what FF 3.5 is using running 6 tabs. While running a Full Scan option.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:29:19 +0000

Again, check out “processes from all users” in task manager:
The underlying “MsMpEng.exe” uses about 55 MB!

By: whiplash55

whiplash55 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:27:18 +0000

I’ve been pleasantly surprised with it so far, it uses only 4080K running a scan which was about 25% less than Avira did. I’ll keep using it until something annoys me about it then I’ll move on to the next one.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:30:33 +0000

Wow Geek! those beta copies went fast!

By: Mysticgeek

Mysticgeek — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:15:17 +0000

@Stacy:

You definitely don’t want to have 2 Antivirus apps running at the same time.

By: HugoHilter

HugoHilter — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:37:09 +0000

No one needs this software – is this friendly enough?

By: stacy

stacy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:43:33 +0000

Do you need to uninstall your current version of McAfee Security Center before downloading? I have been very unhappy with MSC for the +2 years I’ve used it.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:59:15 +0000

Well it froze up the computer and would not install. Did I try to install it again. I think not. Should have known better than to try a Microsoft product. Thought this time it would be okay. oops I was wrong again.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:37:56 +0000

About the system resources:
There is also a process “MsMpEng.exe” running (AntiMalware Service Executable), which needs about 50 MB on my W7 x64 … So it is not that “light” (but my former Sophos AV also needs 60 MB).