TreyRandom
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- Jun 29, 2001
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It just ticks me off when someone comes asking for an AV recommendation and people tell him to install MSE! That's the worst AV out of the lot and it doesn't even classify as an AV. I have an COMPTIA Security+ Certificate and know better than to use MSE.
I have a couple of minor certifications that you might have heard of (see sig) and have absolutely no problems using MSE.
Another MSE thread going... precisely as expected 'round these parts. Personal threats and overstated AV statistics abound! We even got our daily dose of someone throwing around an entry level cert like it holds some sort of god-given weight
But jokes aside, MSE still holds above a 90% detection rate. It's free, it's low profile, it's easy on resources, and there's no daily *CLICK HERE TO BUY THE FULL VERSION* advertisement. In my book, it does precisely what an AV program is supposed to, act as a mostly reliable LAST line of defense for someone with risky computing habits. If you want to argue about zero day threats and all that, it's just a round robin of which AVs are going to miss which new threats on any given day. And if I have a specific file i'm extra concerned about, I scan it with any number of online on-demand scanners that pass it through dozens of AV engines.
If this were Facebook, I'd like this post so hard, so fast.