> When (approx. date) did you install Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE)
> and was the computer fully-patched at Windows Update at the time?
I installed it about 6 months ago and the computer was fully-patched at the
time
> What anti-virus application was installed before you installed MSE, was
> your subscription still current, and did you uninstall it before you
> installed
I was using McAfee downloaded from Comcast before I installed MSE. The
subscription was current and I used the complete uninstall instructions and
tool supplied by McAfee via Comcast before installing MSE.
> Has a(nother) Norton or McAfee application ever been installed on the
> computer?
Norton was installed, but I used the uninstall instructions and tool from
Norton via Comcast before installing McAfee. See above regarding the McAfee
uninstall before moving to MSE.
> Did a Norton or McAfee free-trial come preinstalled on the computer when
> you bought it? (Doesn't matter if you never used or Activated it.)
Norton was installed and I later upgraded it to the full version. Norton
then ran on the computer for several years before installing McAfee.
Thanks for your help
"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> When (approx. date) did you install Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE)
> and was the computer fully-patched at Windows Update at the time?
>
> What anti-virus application was installed before you installed MSE, was
> your subscription still current, and did you uninstall it before you
> installed MSE?
>
> Has a(nother) Norton or McAfee application ever been installed on the
> computer?
>
> Did a Norton or McAfee free-trial come preinstalled on the computer when
> you bought it? (Doesn't matter if you never used or Activated it.)
>
> => Microsoft Security Essentials Support Forums <=
> http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/mse
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002
>
>
> Bill W wrote:
>> Thank you. Defender is not installed, so it's MSE. Since my initial
>> post,
>> I found that it also runs on my other XP computer after rebooting, but
>> it's
>> not as noticeable because that PC has faster, multiple processors and
>> msmpeng is consuming a little more than 20%. The PC in question has a
>> single, slower processor and msmpeng is consuming around 90%. Thanks
>> again
>> for your response. I feel better and will assume that msmpeng.exe isn't
>> anything I need to be concerned about.
>>
>>> It is also part of MSE (one reason why MS says not to have both MSE and
>>> Defender).
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> Recently I have noticed after rebooting my computer msmpeng.exe will
>>> run
>>> using over 90% of the processor. This will continue for several minutes
>>> and I'm not able to do anything. Research shows that this is related to
>>> Defender, but I'm running MS Security Essentials and Defender is not
>>> installed on my PC. Is it related to Security Essentials and is it
>>> anything I need to be concerned about. I also ready that it could be a
>>> well disguised virus, but I ran several virus scans and they all came up
>>> clean. Thank you for your help.
>