MS Security Essentials - plays well with others?

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I am thinking of removing AVG Free and installing MS SE on my wife's laptop. (btw we backed up all important files from it to our new ext HD).

Can MS SE be used with other anti spyware programs?
Her laptop has Malware Bytes, SAS, SpywareBlaster, and CCleaner..and spybot, although it's hardly used anymore...

from those i think only SWB is real-time, but i just wanted to make sure that it's ok to install MS SE while those freeware remain on the laptop.

Thanks..
 
I've put it on a half dozen so far, replacing AVG and Enod. I got rid of everything else except CCleaner and JKDefrag.

I think spybot got too big and slow a year or so ago
 
All that anti-virus and anti-spyware must be slowing your computer down. I've been running Microsoft Security Essentials on Windows 7 since last fall. So far, zero problems. As such, I recommend it.
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Very pleased with MSE on a middle of the road P4 Dell. Hardly know that it is scanning, if it did not hang up a web page or two while scanning. Other than that it is non-obtrusive. Like it a lot.
 
My father-in-law is a network engineer for a university. He says that MS Security Essentials is a great anti-malware program overall. It does Ok with scanning to the point where you wouldn't notice a difference from AVG or others. The thing that sets it apart is how nicely it plays with Windows which makes for a better user experience.
 
so... guess I CAN use it with other anti malware programs?

also: I heard that just uninstalling AVG using windows is not enough? Do I have to use the AVG uninstaller program that AVG wbsite has?
 
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Originally Posted By: barlowc
All that anti-virus and anti-spyware must be slowing your computer down. I've been running Microsoft Security Essentials on Windows 7 since last fall. So far, zero problems. As such, I recommend it.
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Thanks.
but I don't understand the underlined part: AFAIK, None of those anti-spyware freeware I listed (except SWB) are running on real time (they only update and scan when prompted manually, as all of the are free versions), so how can they slow the computer down?
 
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My assumption, which may have been an incorrect one, is that most if not all of those programs have some kind of real-time scanner/service running. If that's the case, the sum of them has a tendency to slow things down. Frankly if you can find one good program (such as Microsoft Security Essentials), there's really no reason to have the others.
 
Originally Posted By: barlowc
My assumption, which may have been an incorrect one, is that most if not all of those programs have some kind of real-time scanner/service running. If that's the case, the sum of them has a tendency to slow things down.


I think you are correct about the PAID versions of those programs - the free versions which i and a lot of people use, offer no real time scanning, AFAIK - hence "free".
 
Originally Posted By: 97tbird
so... guess I CAN use it with other anti malware programs?

also: I heard that just uninstalling AVG using windows is not enough? Do I have to use the AVG uninstaller program that AVG wbsite has?


Below is a link to the AVG web site for the program to make sure that AVG was completely removed.

Link to download site.

Sure would not hurt to run it.
 
Originally Posted By: 97tbird
Originally Posted By: barlowc
My assumption, which may have been an incorrect one, is that most if not all of those programs have some kind of real-time scanner/service running. If that's the case, the sum of them has a tendency to slow things down.


I think you are correct about the PAID versions of those programs - the free versions which i and a lot of people use, offer no real time scanning, AFAIK - hence "free".

Well, I'm 99.9% certain that the free version of AVG anti-virus has real-time scanning. That's what I put on my father's computer which was before Microsoft Security Essentials came out.
 
I've used MSE in conjuction with AVG on the same PC with no issue. It works with malwarebytes, superantispyware, gmer, ccleaner, spybot, with no issues from waht I've tested
 
Originally Posted By: Buffman
I've used MSE in conjuction with AVG on the same PC with no issue. It works with malwarebytes, superantispyware, gmer, ccleaner, spybot, with no issues from waht I've tested

It would be bad to run MSE with AVG. Never run more than one antivirus at a time unless you want trouble. MSE had antispyware built-in.
 
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Originally Posted By: Buffman
I've used MSE in conjuction with AVG on the same PC with no issue. It works with malwarebytes, superantispyware, gmer, ccleaner, spybot, with no issues from waht I've tested

It would be bad to run MSE with AVG. Never run more than one antivirus at a time unless you want trouble. MSE had antispyware built-in.


I was doing it to prove that point. I've run them in conjuction on PCs mainly for testing, but agreed only one per machine when it comes to active running virus scan programs
 
I see. I have been happy with MSE. I have it on all my home PCs and a few that I maintain for friends.
 
You don't need to run anything but MS security essentials. The people that have five anti-malware programs on their computer are slowing it way down.

Windows 7 with MS security essentials is fine, and non invasive.

I love to see those people who bring me a computer running xp that has a bunch of programs loaded up on it, asking me why it is running so slow.

If you are worried so much about antivirus, then install a copy of linux and dual boot.

I'll bet that you will want to run linux more because the thing just runs perfect with no need for bloatware.
 
^^ +1. MB finds things MSE doesnt (not often), and SAS finds things both of them don't. Spybot S&D is nice for locking down the host file. However there's not need as you state to run all of them real time.
 
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