Microsoft Security Essentials has an option to control how much CPU it uses during a scan - 50% is the default IIRR. I've used security essentials on several machines for the last 2 years and have never seen this problem. It could be some interaction between Thunderbird and Security Essentials.
Joseph On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Unicorn.Consulting < unicorn.consult...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18/03/2011 9:03 AM, Chris Walsh wrote: > > Microsoft Security Essentials works fine. > > Like using 50% of processor when Thunderbird is open. YMMV, but I dumped > this junk fast. > Matt > > > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [ > mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com <ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com>] *On > Behalf Of *Greg Keogh > *Sent:* Friday, 18 March 2011 9:29 AM > *To:* 'ozDotNet' > *Subject:* [OT] Anti-Virus replacement for AVG > > > > Folks, after much web browsing, discussion and head-scratching about a year > ago I picked AVG free edition over the dozens of choices. It seemed to have > a good reputation and it didn't seem too intrusive. > > > > Since then, one friend with AVG free has had a machine infected 3 times, > another friend had 2 infections, and my wife's work machine got one hit. In > most cases I could go into safe mode, disable the infection registry entries > and then AVG would detect and clean the virus. One machine was so utterly > screwed twice that it had to be formatted each time. In all cases AVG was > disabled or deleted by the infection. > > > > AVG seems to be worse than useless, so I'm wondering what AV product people > here recommend for home PC use and satisfies the following specs: > > > > 1. It actually stops viruses (no kidding?!?) > > 2. It's not too intrusive in the UI (banners, popups, tray icons, context > menus, etc) > > 3. It doesn't have side-effects (degrades performance, conflicts with other > apps, etc) > > > > I reckon that asking for all of these things together is too much, but I > might find a compromise. > > > > Cheers, > > Greg > > > > -- > “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary > Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Benjamin Franklin > > -- w: http://jcooney.net t: @josephcooney
