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From: pacca on 30 Jul 2010 11:46
Any body using MS security essentials? Why so many updates is it necessary
to down load that many, using a lot of disk space!

From: R. C. White on 30 Jul 2010 13:08
Hi, pacca.

Yes! MSE is doing a fine job for me and has ever since it first appeared
last year.

I have Windows Update set to download the updates and ask me when to install
them. Then I set MSE to check for the latest definitions before running its
weekly scan.

Each downloaded Definition Update apparently overwrites the previous one, so
they do not continuously gobble up more disk space. At least, my entire
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Essentials folder tree uses only 17 MB
(not GB) of space after several months of continually-updated use. For
today's large hard drives, that is not much space.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc(a)grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2010 (15.3.2804.0607) in Win7 Ultimate x64)


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Any body using MS security essentials? Why so many updates is it necessary
to down load that many, using a lot of disk space!

From: Bobby Johnson on 30 Jul 2010 15:36
To add to R.C.'s comments, it is usual for any antivirus to update at
least once a day because of the number of new or altered virus released
into the wild everyday.


On 2010-07-30 13:08, R. C. White wrote:
> Hi, pacca.
>
> Yes! MSE is doing a fine job for me and has ever since it first appeared
> last year.
>
> I have Windows Update set to download the updates and ask me when to
> install them. Then I set MSE to check for the latest definitions before
> running its weekly scan.
>
> Each downloaded Definition Update apparently overwrites the previous
> one, so they do not continuously gobble up more disk space. At least, my
> entire C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Essentials folder tree uses
> only 17 MB (not GB) of space after several months of continually-updated
> use. For today's large hard drives, that is not much space.
>
> RC
From: mikeyhsd on 30 Jul 2010 18:46
once a day is not too many.
some do more than that.

be glad it is keeping up with the nasties in the wild.

mikeyshd



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From: Charlie Russel-MVP on 31 Jul 2010 12:01
Agreed with all. I really like MSE. It's the lowest impact AV I've used, and
seems to be doing its job. Unfortunately, it's not available for XP x64, but
is for Vista and Win7 64-bit versions.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/Russel


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