So I installed MS Security Essentials and, so far, I'm not too impressed but it's still early yet. Keep in mind that I'm running on a PIII 850 with 256M RAM so nothing I've run so far seems to perform any better but I'm having tons of performance issues creeping up now. Some apps start dreadfully slow and it can take upwards of 3 minutes to load a heavy web page with a lot of animated gif's (for example a long forum thread with a bunch of avatar's). This in and of itself isn't as much of a big deal typically because I can tweak settings howevermost virus/malware packages traditionally come very configurable whereby there are very few settings that can be teaked with MS Security Essentials. Furthermore, I like to be able to watch the realtime scanner progress to see what file is being scanned at any given moment, this does not seem to be available.
So I can tweak file type and folder exclusions pretty easily so I've added *.gif and *.jpg as well as my UO client path. I'll keep twiddling with this for the next couple of weeks and see if I can make things improve. Otherwise it would be a wonderful asset. The full version is FREE and is pretty easy to use. I'll keep at it.
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