Who uses Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus?

[Burnadell]

I ran a QUICK scan on my laptop recently after installing Microsoft Security Essentials. It took over 3 hours and removed a couple of trojans. I thought 3 hours was a long time for a scan !

Last weekend, MSE alerted me that it detected another threat and removed it. My computer was still acting funny so I contacted Microsoft Sunday. Fajar in India (See pic below), took control of my computer, cleaned the harddrive, etc and ran a scan with some other Microsoft product. He said it would run much better...not!

So...I started a FULL scan with MSE at 11:49pm Monday night. It is still scannining 32 hours later and has scanned over 2.3 million items and still counting. Can this be???

I am afraid to cancel the scan because I don't want to have to start over if this is normal. Anyone else have any experience with MSE? Likes? Dislikes?

Fajar:

[stinkbelly]

I have been useing MSE for about 6 months. It has been great for me. A normal scan is usually around 3 hours on my old small computer. A quick scan isn't very long.

When mine went bad a while back, I used Adaware and spybot to remove a bunch of junk.

[chongo]

I use it on all 4 of my computers - a qucik scan usually take 2-4 hours depending on the computer if I remember correctly the full scans take quite a while - I know my laptop was close to 28 hours. I am happy with MSE especially being free.

[Fargus]

I have been using MSE and never had an issue with scan times. However, either do to operator error or MSE foul up I caught a bad bug last weekend.

[Blake8504]

It's probably an ID10 T error, sorry...

[Burnadell]

It's probably an ID10 T error, sorry...

What does that mean?

My progress bar finally advanced one more green bar (in the last 18 hours) but is still only 90%. Approaching 33 hour scan .

Are there that many "items" (2.4 million) on a computer to be scanned?

[Pistol]

ID10 T is code for 'idiot'

I think your scan is taking waaaay too long, but I don't know what to do about it.

[Loneaggie]

What does that mean?

My progress bar finally advanced one more green bar (in the last 18 hours) but is still only 90%. Approaching 33 hour scan .

Are there that many "items" (2.4 million) on a computer to be scanned?

Yep there are millions of files on some machines. At this point I'd cancel the scan and run malwarebytes or spybot. Them install AVG or Avast.

[Burnadell]

ID10 T Oh, I get it...doh! You are right, there!!!

[cw3jperry5]

I have been useing MSE for about 6 months. It has been great for me. A normal scan is usually around 3 hours on my old small computer. A quick scan isn't very long.

When mine went bad a while back, I used Adaware and spybot to remove a bunch of junk.

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[bigtuna]

My windows live one care subsription ran out and I recently switched to MSE, its been fine so far. 32 hour scan doesn't sound right. Great pic BTW

[Burnadell]

Got home today, and the scan was completed , but it did not record the total elapsed time; I'm guessing around 40 hours . Fajar, the wonder tech at Microsoft India said it could possibly take that long...at least I think that's what he said.

Anyway, MSE seems to have fixed it, and it's lightning fast now!

Scanned 2,472,383 items; I ned to delete some emails .

[Signel]

Go get Ccleaner and clean out all the temp files as they take forever to scan through. Install Malwarebytes as your system is likely not clean, and run a complete scan. I'd dump the MSE, and buy a copy of Eset's Nod32. IF you must go free, avast, or ClamAV are both reputable. AVG was once considered good, but is often circumvented by virus writers. Honestly though, a reinstall of windows would most likely make the computer run like new again.

[Burnadell]

Go get Ccleaner and clean out all the temp files as they take forever to scan through. Install Malwarebytes as your system is likely not clean, and run a complete scan. I'd dump the MSE, and buy a copy of Eset's Nod32. IF you must go free, avast, or ClamAV are both reputable. AVG was once considered good, but is often circumvented by virus writers. Honestly though, a reinstall of windows would most likely make the computer run like new again.

Thanks Signel. It's working fine now. I may try that next time.

Anyway, MSE seems to have fixed it, and it's lightning fast now!