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To: ILCUL8R who wrote (72204)	9/22/2010 11:40:15 AM
From: Breccia	Respond to of 110652

I do not think so...I am keeping Avast but in a new computer I would likely try the microsoft solution. I currently run older Xp with AVG, current W7 machines with avast.

To: ILCUL8R who wrote (72204)	9/22/2010 12:08:00 PM
From: thecow	1 Recommendation Respond to of 110652

I replaced it with MSE several months ago after seeing the initial Windows Secrets newsletter. It has worked perfectly so far. I'm quite happy with it.

To: ILCUL8R who wrote (72204)	9/22/2010 2:02:03 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

YES! >Should I remove AVAST and replace it with Microsoft Security Essentials?< MSE is so unobtrusive, only the systray icon tells me it's there and working

To: ILCUL8R who wrote (72204)	9/22/2010 6:04:30 PM
From: padoc	Respond to of 110652

Avast works fine for me. It works in the background and I have it set to check for updates every 4 hours. A small box comes up in the lower right to let you know it has updated. Two days ago it caught a trojan on Free Realtime. I feel it is a great program and very unobtrusive.

To: ILCUL8R who wrote (72204)	9/23/2010 12:17:09 PM
From: ILCUL8R	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

Should I remove AVAST and replace it with Microsoft Security Essentials? Yesterday PM I removed AVAST and installed MSE. I did this on the 2nd drive just after it received a clone of C:, so it runs just like the main drive. I find MSE to be a memory hog that uses more resources than AVAST, to the point I am considering staying with AVAST. Here are the comparisons of AVAST vs: MSE: My machine has 2 GB of RAM and runs XP Pro with SP3. Physical memory available with MSE 1.6 GB vs: 1.71 with AVAST Page File usage 379 MB with MSE vs: 204 MB with AVAST Memory usage of Firefox with MSE 97 MB vs: 64 MB with AVAST The MSE process has MsMpEng.exe of 97 MB, AVAST has its process loaded with only 24 MB. As I load a 2nd or 3rd instance of FF the disparity between the two only grows. BTW, I am running Memory Fox, which seems to be less active with MSE. Is MSE worth using as it requires an extra 170 MB of Page File and 34 MB more RAM just to run FF? We know that the page file reads/writes are much slower than those using RAM and why the extra RAM to load and run FF? I will experiment more today but I am very much considering dumping MSE. Any comments/criticisms of my arithmetic (data are from Task Manager)? Thanks...........

To: ILCUL8R who wrote (72204)	5/22/2011 10:40:15 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

I use both MSE and Avast. I have MSE set to turn off real time protection (generally not a good idea to have two anti-virus programs with real time protection at the same time, you'll at least use more CPU time and memory, and at worst make your system unstable). I have Avast run its scheduled scans in the middle of the night, so I don't find it intrusive. I also have a scheduled daily quick scan from MSE at a different time but also really late. I like the way Avast can set up customized scans. With MSE its just quick scan or full. (You can run a customized scan but not schedule one, or save one for later manual runs as far as I can tell.) If I had to use just one I'd go with Avast. I formerly used ESET and Kaspersky but decided that I didn't want to pay for anti-virus any more (at least not if it wasn't clearly better). I've also used AVG, and Commodo. Commodo anti-virus isn't that good IMO. It runs slower than most of the others, and when I click on cancel it takes a long time to stop, and sometimes doesn't stop at all. I also tried out Clamwin. Its doesn't automatically scan files as they are opened, so its not a good choice for a primary anti-virus program. I thought it would be good as a backup manual scan only program, but I did have a glitch or two, and also the scans where slow, and it reportedly has a poor detection rate, so I eventually uninstalled it.