On 05/26/10 03:56 pm, SC Tom wrote:
>> On WinXP I was using the CA Internet Security Suite Plus, and I don't
>> think there was a day went by without at least one update becoming
>> available -- and sometimes two or more.
>>
>> On Win7 I have installed Microsoft Security Essentials, and often the
>> updates are days apart. Isn't my machine more vulnerable with MSE than
>> with the CA product?
> I installed MSE on my Win7 notebook and found, like Dave, that it
> updated very day. I felt it worked well while I had it ( I didn't catch
> anything nasty), but I uninstalled it and went back to ZAISS.
> It always seemed to take forever to start up, and would give errors
> about no protection until it finally did. More than half the time, I
> would have to go in and start it up manually since it seemed to hang on
> not starting. I had tried it earlier on my step-daughter's XP machine,
> and it reacted the same way, but I thought maybe it was just an MSE-XP
> thing.
> Other than the start-up issue, I was pleased enough with it. But I would
> rather have protection when Windows starts and I'm ready to go online or
> do other things, not have to wait for the protection to start or have to
> start it manually.
Win7+MSE starts faster than WinXP+CA_ISSP on the same hardware here, but
I have no idea whether that's because Win7 is faster or because MSE is
much "slimmer" than CA_ISSP -- maybe a bit of both.
Perce