On 7 Oct 2011 at 9:34, John Hornbuckle wrote: > I just use Microsoft Security Essentials. Seems to work well enough for me. Or > am I naïve?
I don't trust MSE, as it requires Automatic Updates to update itself and I don't let AU run on my systems. Microsoft has slipped to many things like "Windows Genuine Advantage Notification" in as part of "critical Windows security updates" for me to trust AU to run automatically. I use AVG (the free home license) on one home system, and a home license of VIPRE (from a client with 100 home licenses to spare) for another. On 7 Oct 2011 at 10:23, Ben Scott wrote: > On any platform, the regular user account I use is non-admin. I have > filesystem permissions set-up to lock things down for non-admin users. The > admin account I only use for software updates and system changes. Absolutely! This is the perfect way to run. When I run like this, I can always use MakeMeAdmin.cmd [1] to run things that need "admin" rights to do their work (e.g CCleaner, Spybot Search and Destroy, and WinPatrol). In addition, on those XP systems where I have to run with "Admin" rights for various reason I use DropMyRights [2] to run my email client, Firefox, and my explorer-replacement (Total Commander [3]) so I really have to work to run things with admin rights. A [1] MakeMeAdmin http://blogs.msdn.com/b/aaron_margosis/archive/2005/03/11/394244.aspx [2] Non Admin - Drop My Rights http://nonadmin.editme.com/DropMyRights [3] Total Commander http://www.ghisler.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 [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
