{"id":6363,"date":"2013-10-20T19:38:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T23:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=6363"},"modified":"2013-10-20T19:38:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T23:38:57","slug":"a-reader-says-guru-tells-readers-to-keep-on-keeping-on-with-microsoft-security-essentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/a-reader-says-guru-tells-readers-to-keep-on-keeping-on-with-microsoft-security-essentials\/","title":{"rendered":"A reader says a computer &#8220;guru&#8221; tells readers to keep on keeping on with Microsoft Security Essentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A reader cites Leo who tells readers to keep on keeping on with MSE<br \/>\n<\/strong>Hi TC and EB , Reference your recent articles slamming Microsoft Security Essentials &#8212; you might like to comment on the attached from Leo Notenboom who ,I am sure you know ,is well respected in the computer industry and write\u2019s a weekly newsletter which I and am sure lots of your readers subscribe to .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/askleo.com\/do-i-need-to-stop-using-microsoft-security-essentials\/?awt_l=BBgO_&amp;awt_m=IhEkJ1wtdJdfbL\">http:\/\/askleo.com\/do-i-need-to-stop-using-microsoft-security-essentials\/?awt_l=BBgO_&amp;awt_m=IhEkJ1wtdJdfbL<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Our answer<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>(EB had to restrain TC here because he was about ready to boil over \ud83d\ude42 So Darcy answered this diplomatically:<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nHere is how I responded. Never will we recommend something we know does not work! Hope this helps everyone understand better:<\/p>\n<p>For years we recommended MSE but we no longer recommend it. We base this mainly on the fact we started seeing many computers running MSE\/Defender showing up with trojans and viruses the past few weeks; something we had not seen the past couple of years since we started our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/direct\/\">Cloudeight Direct Care Service.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, Microsoft has completely dropped down so far it is no longer listed as passing performance testing by the most popular independent AV testing company, AV-Comparatives:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.av-test.org\/no_cache\/en\/tests\/test-reports\/?tx_avtestreports_pi1%5Breport_no%5D=133162\">http:\/\/www.av-test.org\/no_cache\/en\/tests\/test-reports\/?tx_avtestreports_pi1%5Breport_no%5D=133162<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chart.av-comparatives.org\/awards_by_vendor.php?venID=11\">http:\/\/chart.av-comparatives.org\/awards_by_vendor.php?venID=11<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other independent tests showing very low ratings or showing it does not meet industry averages:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.av-test.org\/no_cache\/en\/tests\/test-reports\/?tx_avtestreports_pi1%5Breport_no%5D=133162\">http:\/\/www.av-test.org\/no_cache\/en\/tests\/test-reports\/?tx_avtestreports_pi1%5Breport_no%5D=133162<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those two are the largest and most reliable as far as AV testing but you can do searches and find others (make sure it is independent av testing, not av testing that lists according to commission\/affiliation).<\/p>\n<p>We no longer recommend MSE or Defender. We have written several articles the past few weeks on our findings.<\/p>\n<p><em>(TC adds: Anyone who tells you to keep using MSE is either a MS fanboy or doesn&#8217;t have a clue what he or she is talking about. Sorry folks, I just had to say this. EB please don&#8217;t hurt me! )<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader cites Leo who tells readers to keep on keeping on with MSE Hi TC and EB , Reference your recent articles slamming Microsoft Security Essentials &#8212; you might like to comment on the attached from Leo Notenboom who ,I am sure you know ,is well respected in the computer industry and write\u2019s a weekly newsletter which\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/a-reader-says-guru-tells-readers-to-keep-on-keeping-on-with-microsoft-security-essentials\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1655,1656,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6365,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363\/revisions\/6365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}