Avast! has gone metro

[Guest Keatah]

I never trust anything advertising says. Especially when early-adoption is involved. Truth is stretched too far, or downright abandoned. All in the name of profit.

[Andavari]

Good to know that MSE is working fine for you under XP. I think MSE is being bad-mouthed all the way just because it's Microsoft

 

MSE on XP has two things against it which are common complaints and often have me trying out other AV's:

* Scan times are very slow. The Full Scan speed is just ridiculous!

* File access times are very slow, sometimes opening the smallest of files takes way too long such as several seconds whereas most other AV's would allow the same file to launch in milliseconds, and launching some programs takes a very long time such as SpywareBlaster, etc.

 

Bad mouthing an AV for being slow is nothing new at all, sure they'll all slow down a system to some extent and make a performance impact, however MSE's impact on XP systems I've seen it on including mine are very noticeable regardless of the processor, RAM, etc, performance-wise it reminds me of the old Win98 days running a late 90s version of the performance sloth McAfee VirusScan.

 

With that stated I do however recommend MSE before any other AV, reasons being it's beyond super simple to use with its very straight forward design so anyone can comfortably use it without confusion. Although it causes performance issues that's about the only negative impact it has whereas some other AV's (Avast, etc.,) can make a system unbootable after install.

Edited March 19, 2013 by Andavari