Advice on new laptop I have bought please.

waddler_8

AndysDad wrote: »

Would never recommend MSE even microsoft admit its rubbish!

Where?

http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2013/10/09/our-commitment-to-microsoft-antimalware.aspx

We are proud of the protection capabilities we provide for well over 150 million computers worldwide with our real-time antimalware products. We believe in Microsoft antimalware products and strongly recommend them to our customers, to our friends, and to our families.

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here?

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/384394/microsoft-security-essentials-is-designed-to-be-bottom-of-the-antivirus-rankings

waddler_8

If you read the article it's full of misconstrued quotes taken out of context. This was then fuelled to be other by other sites adding their own interpretations of the "report".

http://askleo.com/do-i-need-to-stop-using-microsoft-security-essentials/

As it turns out, the majority of the “journalism” on the topic over the past couple of weeks has simply been repeating a single source of information. Worse, the repetition included not only a couple of quotes without full context from a Microsoft spokesperson and also additional speculation by the author of that original piece. As the story was repeated, even more speculation was added and assumptions were made.

The source of the article is a testing house - Dennis Technology Labs - PcPro is owned by Dennis Publishing.

After the article was originally published this update was added:

Microsoft has issued the following statement in response to the publication of this article:

"We are committed to protecting our customers, and our Microsoft antimalware solutions provide strong, comprehensive defence against malicious code and attacks. We believe in these products and are proud of the protection capabilities we provide to well over 150 million computers worldwide."

MS long since stopped trying to predict test samples.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2013/01/06/customer-focused-prioritization.aspx

We realize that the way we prioritize our protection may not always align with how the independent anti-virus product testers measure our effectiveness. We believe that adhering to a customer-focused prioritization process allows us to protect and keep our customers safe.

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I read them, it's journalism, spin, backpedalling, more spin.

Bottom line, mse interface is a little wanting, it relies on windows update, not the most robust/informative update method, and it's relatively heavy on ram compared to some others. Add in the fact that it scores poorly in whatever independent tests are thrown at it (they may or may not be prevalent real world problems yet, but so what), and there's not much to recommend it really, when other free ones are better - as you would expect, as their business relies heavily on their product being better than the one rolled out with the OS for free.

But, it's better than nowt.