Comments on: Can Microsoft Security Essentials beat Norton?

By: Gary M Fraklin Sr

Gary M Fraklin Sr — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:06:10 +0000

Sorry for the mispelling of PROTECTION

By: Gary M Fraklin Sr

Gary M Fraklin Sr — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:03:45 +0000

Effectiveness of Microsft Security Essentials COMPARED TO PROYECTION of Norton 360.2

By: geek12

geek12 — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 19:19:37 +0000

mse better than nrton and avast

By: PLsteez

PLsteez — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:22:33 +0000

Had nav 360 that crashed a pc because of a boot virus and corrupted the os. reinstalled on another hdd and when i tried to format it mse found the hidden boot virus even though I had only one half of a striped raid. To make a story short mse stepped up and removed it now problem free and bloat free.

By: Wholesale Laser

Wholesale Laser — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:05:49 +0000

Start up Word and the CPU usage actually goes down to 80-90%. MSE probably throttles down so much when it notices system usage that it overcompensates.
Looks nice!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:33:09 +0000

MS Security Essentuals is absolutely awesome! By far the best free solution on the market, as well as the best mid-range solution on the market!

Norton and AVG are horrible!

I hope all the premium Virus companies go the way of the Dodo! Why? Becuase, they are responsible for most of the virus on the market today!

5 Stars for Microsoft creating are free and reliable option!

By: Mick

Mick — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:05:57 +0000

Dumped Norton 360 after running for less than a week. The usual stuff, memory hog, annoying pop ups you can’t turn off. The new Norton looks like the old Norton to me. Switched to MSE and haven’t looked back. First scan picked up two trojans that Norton and the previous McAfee install had missed. Come up with an intergrated firewall for MSE and the “pay” AV programs may be in trouble. Just my opinion.

By: MSE

MSE — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:42:05 +0000

Peter Norton may not like what SYMC is producing, but he loves the millions that he collects from the use of his name. SYMC has tried for years to drop his name but his name has higher recognition and value to the public than SYMC so they continue to use it. I had Norton on my box, old install but new sigs, and got infected. Dumped it, got Forefront and it cleaned up what SYMC missed.

By: passingby

passingby — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:39:11 +0000

i consider Norton as a virus by the way it use my computer memory, and how hard to completely remove it from my system.

it was the main reason of slowing down my computer. that why i remove it for good an go for smaller, faster one like what windows offer.

By: Philip Tattershall

Philip Tattershall — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:40:05 +0000

I have fond memories of the excellent original Norton Utilities DOS product and wonder what Peter Norton must think of his name being attached to some of Symantec’s offerings in recent years.

I’ve recently been asked to fix a laptop that was ‘protected’ by Norton 360. It was unusably slow due to 100% CPU utilisation and I found it riddled with trojans and root-kits. Thanks to a combination of Microsoft Security Essentials, SuperAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes AntiMalware, the machine now works beautifully again.

I leave you to draw your own conclusions as to the value of certain paid-for security products.