3 ms·
a thousand times better I was under the impression that MSE routinely did OK in AV benchmarks and rarely even ever held the top spot. How is it a thousand time
by criley 14y ago
a thousand times better
I was under the impression that MSE routinely did OK in AV benchmarks and rarely even ever held the top spot. How is it a thousand times better?
Or does it's ability to keep you safe not really factor into your analysis of the software?
- nolok 14y agoTo be honest with you, my point of view is that no antivirus is going to protect me 100%, I always have to care about what I open, where it's coming from, ... What I want from my AV then, is to catch the most obvious (and thus numerous) ones, and do so in a way that doesn't bother me. MSE just doesn't get in the way. It updates silently. It scans silently. It detects silently, ask you for something but take the safe course by default. You are in a full screen app ? It doesn't crash everything trying to take control, it just deals with the threat and show a red icon in the tray. It doesn't make my computer safer than the other, but it makes me lose way less time when it does its job.
- criley 14y agoFair enough, I use Lavasoft because its free version is incredibly well featured and it routinely outperforms MSE in AV tests. I'm just confused by all of the mad-love for MSE. It's good, but I never thought it was the best myself, and I've not seen any objective reasoning for calling it the best.