Security Suites

[Jordy]

Hmm, out of MS Security Essentials and ESET SS, which uses less resources?

I think they're both pretty low on resources hence they're so popular. MSE is an anti-virus, ESET SS is a security suite so chances are MSE is lower on resources. But the bottom line is you can't compare the two and they're both low on resources

[Luke]

Fair doos, think i'll just go with MS then.

Cheers everyone
+rep to all *if i can*
EDIT: Sorry Tom and Jordy, gotta spread (N)

[Apolva]

Hmm, out of MS Security Essentials and ESET SS, which uses less resources?

I'd rather trust a different company, other than the one with the security holes in the first place.

[Stephen]

I'd rather trust a different company, other than the one with the security holes in the first place.

Errrrr what?

[Apolva]

Errrrr what?

I'd rather ESSET/Kasp. over Microsoft.

[GommeInc]

I'd rather ESSET/Kasp. over Microsoft.

That's pretty naive :/ Security holes vary with software, you do realise? The OS is just one part of a problem. An OS company cannot insure software companies can protect their software to use with their operating system. Take Firefox for example, users pick up viruses all the time and Microsoft hear of these attacks, so it's quite wise of them to create an anti-virus of their own because they understand where the vulnerabilities are. Firefox, or more clearly, Mozilla are to blame for any vulnerabilities that may harm the user, which is why Mozilla also release patches and security updates. It's probably why Windows 7 is quite a secure OS compared to older operating systems or the competition, seeing as Microsoft are now looking into vulnerabilities and understand how they work. I think they may also keep in close contact with other anti-virus companies, sharing information with them and vice versa.

[Recursion]

I'd rather trust a different company, other than the one with the security holes in the first place.

You do realise, Linux, MacOS, FreeBSD, Windows, DOS, whatever, you name it, it'll have security flaws.

Everything humans make has a flaw somewhere.

[Apolva]

I'm not talking about vulnerabilities in other software, clearly it is the fault of the software vendor for these.

No software's perfect, but seeing as Microsoft don't exactly have a clean record for addressing bugs as they are found (IE for example), I would think twice about using their security software.

[Stephen]

Your thoughts are quite funny. Glad you aren't a software reviewer.

"This software is going to be buggy as hell because they made this other software which was buggy
1/10"

[Recursion]

I'm not talking about vulnerabilities in other software, clearly it is the fault of the software vendor for these.

No software's perfect, but seeing as Microsoft don't exactly have a clean record for addressing bugs as they are found (IE for example), I would think twice about using their security software.

Unfortunatly Apple are the same, so the two major software vendors are as bad as each other.

Apple left an issue where using the guest account would wipe your other user account files for months on end, they also had the first machine to go down at the Pwn2Own hacking competition