Advice PLEASE re anti virus protection.

90312,

Sorry to be a nuisance, after your help yesterday I checked a couple more times for updates, also did a FULL scan, no problems.

However now this morning (Aussie time) when I powered up all was okay, checked manually for updates and it did one okay, but then a couple of minutes later it went orange and said I had not done a scan for some time.

Any other thoughts please, apart from just putting up with it or getting rid of it?

Yes, that is what I am thinking too.

I originally had the auto scan set for Sunday mornings full scan, then changed it back to a quick scan, that may have affected it too.

I am still quite happy with it, and I update and do a full scan with Malwarebytes at least every second day..

Thanks again.

[90312]

Maybe it requires a full scan after a certain number of quick scans? I might do one or maybe two quick scans a week and a full scan Sunday night. Never hear from it anymore.

Okay, thank you for the very prompt reply.

I do full scans too, but not every day, it must be looking at when you have done FULL scans, and no amount of quick scans will do.

Thanks again.

[90312]

You have to do a full scan every so often or that will happen.

Okay, it ain't broke, working well, Malwarebytes confirming no nasties been let in.

BUT, it has started doing something the last few days, NOT the end of the World, but I was hoping some of you that have MSE might have an idea?

I still do manual updates several times a day, just to make sure, and although it is set to scan once a week automatically, I ususally do at least a quick scan every day.

Quite a few times lately it turns orange, says computer is NOT safe because I have NOT done a scan for some time, even once or twice when I had done a scan only hours before?

It does seem to be especially IF my server has been lost for a while?

Any ideas PLEASE?

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

Exactly so, I was an Aircraft Engineer all my working life (retired now), and that always served me well with aircraft too.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!


Just did an update and full scan with Malwarebytes, which had perfect results on that site, and no problems, so will stick with MSE for now, but sincerely appreciate all the advice and input.

[maineman]

... I am reluctant to change something that is working so well, think I will stay with MSE for now.

Exactly.
I happen to prefer and use avast myself, but that doesn't make it "better".

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

Okay, thank you, appreciate your advice, just I am reluctant to change something that is working so well, think I will stay with MSE for now.

[craigb]

I believe it was the free version of avast that was tested there and the stucture of that test would have been the same result for avast free or paid, MSE completly flopped on this test as it also did not fair well in the latest av comparatives test and VB 100 tests but the choice is yours, im just trying to steer you in the direction of a more efficient antivirus product.

Appreciate all the feedback and advice.

Just read that, it is comparing the paid version of Avast though (I think) NOT the free version.

I am reluctant to change from MSE now to the free version of Avast, and as I said before I also update and run a full scan of Malwarebytes every couple of days, and it did very well in those tests.

[craigb]

davidh this should be interesting for you to look at http://malwareresearchgroup.com/2011...test-22072011/
Its why i recomended avast to you plus the fact of at least two updates per day, faster scanning speeds and for me MSE was using about 40+ meg of ram compaired to avast using 4-6 meg.

Just another update for all those that kindly helped, and anyone interested.

Been another week now, VERY happy with MSE, I do trust it now but still do manual updates several times a day and a full scan daily, also update and do a full scan with Malwarebytes every couple of days.

As before only times it has activated was for this ''adaware'' trying to instal.

Another thing I like about MSE compared to McAfee, not every time but once or twice a week after McAfee did an automatic update it used to insist you restart your computer right away, very annoying sometimes if you were in the middle of doing something with the computer, MSE does not do this, yet anyway.

Anyway, thanks again..........................

PS. Have not heard from McAfee at all, so that removal tool must have worked too.

Yes I am very pleased with it so far, just I have been checking for updates every couple of hours and when it updates doing a quick scan, just until I get used to it and trust it 100%.

Also been updating and scanning Malwarebytes each day to sort of double check, no problems so far.

[90312]

When you get tired of checking for updates (I did) it will update itself every day and when the tray icon turns orange it's telling you it's time to scan, otherwise I don't even know exists.