Wouldn't update; PC was left on for over 24hrs, came and checked to find it still had the original update on it.
It just looked like a rip off of AVIRA's Free AV.

updating fine here.....


microsoft also seam to be releasing updates at more than once a day........


as soon as they have new update definations there released right away.....

apart from a slight lag it seams to be ok...........

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/freechat/t/3712744-...

my post in another thread on this.

they proabbly sorted it.

I'm jolly pleased with Microsoft's offering. I installed it on the ageing P4 2.8Ghz 1Gb RAM XP SP3 'family' computer previously running the latest from AVG. If anything it has significantly improved boot times as well as picking out and eliminating a Winfixer threat on its first scan, something clearly missed by AVG.

The initial updating process was somewhat lengthy but not noticeably different from clean installs of Norton, Sophos or McAfee, we run alsorts in this house.

The interface is basic and it is lacking some of the bells and whistles of the paid-for suites but I'm confident in its performance to guard the downstairs machine. The question is now do I renew my 360 subscription in January.

No.

Because no matter what norton is still a pig of an AV.

Tried this for a couple of days, and really liked it... apart from the random cpu usage spikes.
Right clicking on files would sometimes hang for what seemed like ages and cpu usage would shoot up to between 50- 100%.
Then sometimes even while not doing anything MSMPENG.exe would be eating 100% cpu for ages.

Microsofts pat answer for the cpu usage problems seems to be "well yeah, something running on your pc is clashing with our software". Fair enough. But i'm not about to go through the process of uninstalling stuff on my pc trying to find out what it might be.

Was using Avira free but the increasing number of fp's and update problems made me look elsewhere.

Using Avast now, which i'm not mad keen on but it seems to do the job.

If the cpu usage get's sorted in a future update i would switch to it without hesitation.

I can't help thinking that Microsoft are quite right!

Trevor Adcock

Have replaced AVG with Microsoft's offering on three machines and it's running well. Picked up some viruses that AVG failed to so I'm happy. Have just installed on my Windows 7 machine and its working fine. Something that you set and forget.

Ok I have re-tried it on a fully patched XP SP3 (with all updates installed) and there were no problems. Nice and fast and fairly light. Maybe it didn't like a virtual machine without all the updates applied although SP3 was applied.