I agree with your initial observation. As for the XP x64, I would only find that problematic if it didn't install on Vista x64 and later, but it does.
-*ASB*: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker <http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker> Providing Competitive Advantage through Effective IT Leadership On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr < [email protected]> wrote: > *Getting the product installed on all my test systems took hours and >> hours, but the fault was mine, not Microsoft's: I've been doing back-to-back >> suite reviews for months, and I let my test systems get behind on their >> Windows updates, so I had to bring them all up to speed before installing >> Security Essentials.* > > > I really wonder what the purpose of this statement is. If it was a forced > patching prior to the install, kudos to Microsoft, and Mr. Rubenking should > have giving them recognition for that. If not, why bother to convolute his > install notes with his own inadequacies that muddle the actual installation > time? > > What truly disappoints me is that this is yet another application that wont > install on 64-bit XP. > > -- > ME2 > > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Alex Eckelberry < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> PC Mag review fwiw >> >> >> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2353447,00.asp >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 2:13 AM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Re: MSE is released... >> >> On 29 Sep 2009 at 17:42, Stu Sjouwerman wrote: >> >> > Just bear in mind that MSE does -not- filter incoming email. >> >> I disable inbound mail filtering as I figure the real-time scanner will >> catch anything malicious as it's extracted from the email and written to >> disk. It's the same engine and signatures, so it isn't going to catch >> anything different. >> Inbound filters (especially Norton/Symantec AV) have caused some of my >> clients some serious support nightmares when they can't get email and I >> have to figure out why. >> >> I use Pegasus Mail which has two different HTML display modes (neither >> depends on IE), doesn't support scripting and doesn't download external >> images until I tell it to, so I'm safe from the normal Outlook and >> Outlook Express/IE problems there. My POPfile spamfilter and Pegasus >> Mail's built-in SpamHalter (another trainable bayesian filter) filter >> most crap into the spam folder, which gets purged once it hits whatever >> age I've set (I think I've set 10 days), so I have 10 days to review the >> "Probably Spam" folder if someone complains that I haven't responded to >> an email. >> >> -- >> Angus Scott-Fleming >> GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona >> 1-520-290-5038 >> +-----------------------------------+ >> >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
