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| 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 |
| Message-ID | <iqvu23$8nc$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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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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