I was slightly concerned yesterday morning when I saw that I had to manually log in to Facebook. I normally keep my browsers set to automatically log me in, so any situation where I would need to log back in would be cause for some kind of alarm. I figured maybe someone got ticked by …
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Software in Action: Microsoft Security Essentials
So, yesterday, I had to fix a friends laptop. The machine in question had your now classic situation of malware that behaved like normal antivirus software. This type of malware is beyond annoying for the simple fact that it tends to restore itself after a cleaning. Indeed, just being able to even gain access to …
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Living With Microsoft Security Essentials: Day 4
Again, another uneventful day. Just the way I would like them to be, as far as antivirus software is concerned. I have preformed a quick scan on Lilith, which only took about 4 minutes, or less, with nice results: So, according to quick scan, my system is clean, and it took under 4 minutes to …
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Living With Microsoft Security Essentials: Day 3
Well, day 3 has gone well enough. Still no alerts or any odd behavours: MSE simply plays well with everything. I decided to preform a definition database upgrade: That took about 5 minutes to download. Nowhere near as long as the original database download, but still long considering the short time Avira took to do …
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Living With Microsoft Security Essentials: Day 2
Day two has been pretty uneventful. MSE has not detected any threats (Neither did Avira, as I avoid the nastier parts of the internet), and has been VERY unobtrusive. I have yet to have any virus definition updates, but will try an update tonight. I would imagine the definition update would be rather small in …
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Living With Microsoft Security Essentials: Day 1
Well, I decided to document a week living with MSE, after removing Avira from my systems. All 3 of my machines (2 Windows 7 machines, one Windows XP) used Avira, and all of them suffered the odd boot sequences caused by the software. Avira uninstalled smoothly on all 3 machines, and, after the absurd time …
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