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Microsoft Security Essentials RAM Usage

I got into a little discussion on our Microsoft Security Essentials forum about MSE’s RAM consumption. It seems that most people really focus on RAM usage as being “a problem” for almost all Anti-virus applications; however IMO CPU is what everyone should be concerned about. If your AV is spiking your CPU too [...]

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Moving To MSE – My Microsoft Security Essentials Settings

I was busy last night moving all six of our family PC’s from Avira to MSE (gotta go take care of mom tonight ). I have to admit it’s much faster on quick scans (as compared to the beta), so fast in fact I decided to do them every night.
I’m guessing this [...]

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Security Essentials Final Release Due Tomorrow…

So, will the face of Anti-virus change? Ehhh…maybe a little. I sorta feel like it’s way too late for signature based AV. With about 2,000 new pieces of malware being generated everyday Sandboxing and Virtualization are really the only way to stay malware free.
I’m not saying Security Essentials is a bad app, [...]

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New Infection Targets Explorer.exe

This is just an FYI to everybody. I’ve had 6 clients in the past 2 weeks that had their explorer.exe patched with something malicious. This piece of malware only patches explorer.exe and the symptoms are an explorer.exe that takes 5-10 minutes to load the desktop and is not loadable via a command prompt. [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2009-09-26

Preventing Drive-By Downloads, http://hubpages.com/t/ced6f #

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Forum Trouble

The latest upgrade to the forum didn’t go so well. I’m working on it.

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Rogue AntiVirus is Going Green ;P

Now this one is funny. I stopped by Ann’s house last night (one of my clients) and was greeted with a rogue that just made me laugh…Green AV!!! Obviously “going green” is a huge trend right now, so why not have a rogue AV that rides on that green trend. Personally that [...]

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