Yes, on installing MSE (abandoning AVG after 3-4 years) I did a quick scan as recommended, but soon after (next night?) I scanned a few Tb of stuff and it located a couple of things. Since then it has been unobtrusive and I assume is keeping me safe. I'm happy with it. Noonie's explanation sounds reasonable. ________________________________ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of noonie Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 12:50 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] MS security essentials Bec, It could be a timing issue. When you got the files, in the first place, the threat was not known to your AV but later updates added the signature to the scanner. If you haven't touched the files in the intervening period then your AV wouldn't necessarily be prompted to scan them again. >From memory, Microsoft Security Essentials defaults to a Quick Scan, for your daily or weekly scan, and this type of scan "...scans the folders where malware is most commonly found." I suspect that the Desktop is one of those folders and moving the files prompted MSE to have another look at them. -- Regards, noonie On 12 July 2011 13:49, Bec Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > So I installed this a few months ago on Vista and everything looked > fine. Then over the weekend I moved some folders from > C:\Users\Bec\Folder1 and onto my desktop and suddenly ms security > essentials found all these infected files. The files were things I > didn't need anyway so I just had it kill them. > Can anyone explain why this would happen? Why would security > essentials not detect problem in the old location? > > Cheers > Bec >
