Fair enough, but there are other "free" products out there that rank better - at for example, AV-Comparatives - that along with performing better, have been in the antivirus game a heck of a lot longer.
-- ME2 On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Ben Schorr <[email protected]> wrote: > It’s not a blank check to just do whatever you want and think you’re > protected, that’s true. But neither are seat belts and yet seat belts are > still a good idea. > > > > I absolutely encourage residential users to install MSE – because 75% of > them won’t install ANYTHING if they don’t. And MSE is an awful lot better > than nothing, and even better than some of the free products out there. > > > > Ben M. Schorr > Chief Executive Officer > ______________________________________________ > *Roland Schorr & Tower > *www.rolandschorr.com > [email protected] > > > > *From:* Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Monday, September 27, 2010 11:35 > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Bink.nu | Free Microsoft Security Essentials Coming for > Small Businesses - Bink.nu > > > > I don't follow what you mean here. My gripe is home-users using MSE with a > sense of assurance of adequate protection. > > > For the record, I don't hate Microsoft. But I have a couple of axes to > grind against a couple of their product groups - just as I do with other > companies. > > -- > ME2 > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Steven Peck <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not sure how it does that unless you just hate Microsoft and all that it > stands for. > > > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Which goes back to my opinion of it for the residential/consumer. Its not > adequate protection for the generally reckless and uninformed behavior of > the general public. > > -- > ME2 > > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Steven Peck <[email protected]> wrote: > > MSE is not currently for Business PCs. Using it on them violates the > license. While they have announced a version for small businesses, it is > not yet licensed for that purpose so it's good that you are a > responsibile engineer and not viloating the ToS and potentially exposing > your company to a liability it shouldn't have. > > > > As for work, that's why Microsoft provides WSUS so you can remain > responsible in testing your environment. > > > > Steven > > > > > > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 23 Sep 2010 at 15:33, Micheal Espinola Jr wrote: > > > Not trying to be terribly anal here, but there are a few things I don't > > trust to free products, and this is at the top of the list. > > > > > MSE doesn't chart well comparatively imho, and from what I see in the > > San Diego area, it doesn't perform well IRL[1]. > > One other thing -- for MSE to work and update, "Automatic Updates" have to > be > completely enabled. I don't do this for work PCs as I don't want an entire > company to go down when MS pushes out a bad update. > > > -- > Angus Scott-Fleming > GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona > 1-520-290-5038 > Security Blog: http://geoapps.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 > > > > ~ 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 > > > > ~ 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 > > > > ~ 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 > > ~ 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 > ~ 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
