Recently Been running it along with Windows Defender but Windows Defender won't turn on automaticly So should I assume I don't need Defender anymore and they contain the same protection on spyware etc? thanks
Yup, essentially a replacement. I love it, works great, low resource demand, fast, easy, auto everything. Goodby avg, mcaffee, synaptics. Every computer I fix gets this. Microsoft scored good with this one.
Have it loaded on my Dad's new HP pavilion p6680t core i5 quad with 6gb ram and windows 7 home premium 64 bit edition, and a 10 year old HP pavilion 7955 intel p4 with 1.25 gb ram and xp home...both work flawlessly with it.
I switched the 7955 to MSE from McAfee security suite and the difference is night and day . W/ McAfee it took over 4 minutes for the computer to have a browser usable for the internet. Now it takes just a minute.
If you have an older PC you should get rid of bloated security like Norton and McAfee and use MSE.
I also think the MSE complete scan is amazing at catching almost any malware or virus issue.
Used it for a while, worked good. Switched to Avira, and since I got a free year of Trend Micro, that's what I'm using now, and I like it. Of course having a solid state drive helps too, but I have it on my laptop as well and it works decently. Better than Norton, McAfee, etc.
i use microsoft and about once a month i'll run something like eset's online scanner.
its found 5 things so far that microsoft missed but 3 of the 5's were false positives
and of the other 2 one was "spyware" that got installed because i didnt uncheck a box.
and one was on a keygen that i ran sandboxed(and it didnt do anything)
this was over a several year period