Thanks.
According to info from the internet, MSE installs a second service called "MpFilter".
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/startups/MpFilter.sys-27631.html
According to info from the internet, MSE installs a second service called "MpFilter".
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/startups/MpFilter.sys-27631.html
So its purpose is to protect Malware
Name: Microsoft Malware Protection Driver
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/startups/MpFilter.sys-27631.html
LOL
Questions:
1. Is MS security essentials the same as Windows Defender ?
see below
@Krit86: Back in march 2013 I was confused about the relationship between the two. Please read the entire thread. I also needed the info for helping to develop a program called "Windows Repair".
Windows defender is only the same as microsoft security essentials in windows 8. For the above OS like windows 7 you should use security essentials.
One note though. You should never, and i mean never have more than one antivirus installed on your pc. If you do that, they will eliminate each other, putting your pc at risk.
Windows defender is only the same as microsoft security essentials in windows 8. For the above OS like windows 7 you should use security essentials.
One note though. You should never, and i mean never have more than one antivirus installed on your pc. If you do that, they will eliminate each other, putting your pc at risk.
Your last statement is not entirely true. Immunet 3 is a cloud antivirus meant to coexist with other relevant AV programs out there.
Your last statement is not entirely true. Immunet 3 is a cloud antivirus meant to coexist with other relevant AV programs out there.
Ok. I am sorry. Really i never heard or seen that software. So i guess you right about that.
But what i meant was something like running security essentials and avast for exemple, is really bad. And in that point, do not come tell me that i am wrong because i already had duzens and duzens of clients who made that mistake and they OS whent straigth to garbage.
Usually when 2 antivirus are installed on a machine by someone and they 'fight, ' one of them can always be removed in safe mode and the system recovered successfully.
Usually when 2 antivirus are installed on a machine by someone and they 'fight, ' one of them can always be removed in safe mode and the system recovered successfully.
Yes you are right to. But what i meant was if generally is not good to have 2 antivirus, them why do it at all? Even if it there is a reasonable easy fix. And by the way,
several people,not all of course, but several people, likes to play with system restore and disable it because of some trashy tweak they see on the internet, that tells them it make the pc faster, lighter etc..;
Ok. What i mean is this: you know you can most of the time solve the issue. But if it is simply not right to do it, unless perhaps, the way eL_PuSHeR mentioned, then, why do it at all and have all the hedache? Unless a person wants to be masoquist.
Of course you are right. Regular AV programs have a hard time coexisting. The example I posted is the exception to the rule.
I am sorry to eL_PuSHeR and to hazelnut. i did not intended to create another discussin here, since i was not the original question. It is just sometimes i get carry away. Will try not let that happen again.
Cheers.