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Re: XP and MS security essentials?

From "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au>
Newsgroups comp.sys.laptops
Subject Re: XP and MS security essentials?
Date 2011-05-18 19:49 +1200
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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Somewhere on teh intarwebs Count de Monet wrote:
>> If you can put up with the MsMpEng.exe malware protection program
>> grabbing almost 100% of CPU time every so often.
>
>
> This got so bad on an old XP laptop of mine I un-installed it.

Same with me. It would use 100% CPU for hours (or until I stopped it with 
Task Manager).

I'm quite happy with the free version of Avast! It's light on resources and 
bandwidth when it updates and it hasn't let me down yet.
-- 
Shaun.

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a
monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also
into you." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 

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XP and MS security essentials? mwagner2@twcny.rr.com - 2011-05-15 15:37 -0400
  Re: XP and MS security essentials? Pen <nospam@spam.none> - 2011-05-15 16:57 -0400
    Re: XP and MS security essentials? "Cameo" <cameo@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-15 14:50 -0700
      Re: XP and MS security essentials? Count de Monet <me2@privacy.net> - 2011-05-16 09:12 +0100
        Re: XP and MS security essentials? "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au> - 2011-05-18 19:49 +1200
  Re: XP and MS security essentials? Bob Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2011-05-16 03:38 -0700
  Re: XP and MS security essentials? AJL <45nomail@none.com> - 2011-05-17 01:33 +0000

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