files mysteriously disappear

davehc · davehc's Computer Specs

ok. You got me on the dates. lol
But I aminterested in your source. It gives a very intensive coverage and I have to agree that it points a finger at MSE.- In agreement with the previous posters, though, MSE/(Defender now) has a high reputation in most circles. I have run it for some time. I have not received any malicious viruses during that period. I often run cross checks with other anti virus programs, which also show nothing out of the ordinary.

**Kougar** · Kougar's Computer Specs

Well I'm sorry to hear you've had such trouble with MSE amaltom61! I don't suppose ya remember what viruses it had so much trouble with removing? I'd be curious to look into it.

The link I gave has monthly testing based upon current viruses floating around the wild and MSE does rather well at removing them. Not sure why they don't test it every month yet do with some others, but they do have MSE tested several times this year. The paid results are more comprehensive and go into more detail unfortunately.

I've never had something MSE could not remove, and I've tried quite a number of AV programs. Norton, McAfee, Avast, AVG, Avira, and some others. I vastly prefer MSE for both detection, the lack of false positives, and below average overhead. That's just my own opinion though.

clifford_cooley · clifford_cooley's Computer Specs

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kougar

I've never had something MSE could not remove, and I've tried quite a number of AV programs. Norton, McAfee, Avast, AVG, Avira, and some others. I vastly prefer MSE for both detection, the lack of false positives, and below average overhead. That's just my own opinion though.

Thats my opinion as well. I've used MSE for three year and there was only one incident where I needed to use a System Restore Point from Safe Mode to recover from a virus. Never once have I needed to re-install from an infection.

For the record MSE has detected and removed viruses from my PC on many occasions.

Shintaro · Shintaro's Computer Specs

I have been using MSE, pretty much since it came out. I was tired of the bloat ware of other companies.
I go to some very "not-so-good" site as part of my malware research and have never had a problem.
But then again, anti-virus is only one part of my security.

In regards to BSOD (Blue Screen of Death), there are many occaisions that I have suggested to the user to remove a anti-virus solution and install MSE to resolve a crashing problem.

Also with Kasperkys, if you look, you will see a network option to connect to your network. Then select the update option to update the virus patterns.
The disk not meant to be a "One-stop-shop" for virus removal, they would be updating the disc hourly if that was the case.

Shintaro · Shintaro's Computer Specs

Perhaps if people are getting infected often they should have a look at:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/secur...rotect-pc.aspx

That advice is the very basic things people should be doing.

moltres_rider · moltres_rider's Computer Specs

Quote:

Originally Posted by amaltom61

From Personal Experiance
I used MSE for just 1 month and i had to reinstall windows 7 three times just because of viruses.MSE detected the virus but failed to remove it.

MSE has caused me many problems.literally hundreds.There are many antiviruses better than MSE like Avast, Avira, AVG, COMODO(all of these have free versions)

I said it is the wost free anivirus. There are some paid antiviruses which are even badder than MSE( I don't like to name it. I have tested many antiviruses on some of the newest and the worst viruses and MSE performed better than some of the paid antiviruses but still the lowest in the free section
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To davehc
Check the date of the post. 3 years old http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/secur...re-performance

http://lifehacker.com/5433229/micros...free-antivirus also 3 years old

If i said some thing it is according to the latest information.Since 2009 viruses have improved very much(easy to get,hard to remove).Antiviruses have also improved but MSE is still 1-2 years back

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...s-software.htm
sugests that Avast is better
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http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...s-software.htm
that website ranked MSE #2!!! it is NOT the worst!!!

to I have NEVER had ANY type of issue with it!!! it removed everything ever detected, don't have too many false positives... I like it due to the lack of false positives that happen!!!

AVG SUCKS!!! WAY TOO MANY FALSE POSITIVES!!! a church friend who fixes computers for a living suggested MSE!!!

**TrainableMan** · TrainableMan's Computer Specs

Someone will hate every A/V out there because they had a bad experience. Please don't state your OPINION as if it is FACT. I hate Norton, not because it ever let a virus through, but because they do not offer 64-bit browser protection and because they refuse to let me control what programs I know are not viruses but their software says are; to run them I have to turn off the A/V every time. - those points are FACTS, me hating it is an OPINION.

Back on track please !!!

Any thoughts on why his files may disappear, if it is NOT a virus?

davehc · davehc's Computer Specs

Thanks for the support, fellow members. I had jam on my face and floundered there for a while!! One thing I did note, not to put it down, the av testing site, for which Amaltom61 gave a link, is for sale-

???

Anyway. Back on thread. Molters_rider. I have never heard of a virus, which can give the symptoms you are experiencing, and imo, you can count that out as the problem. In your first post "an explorer link", a thought did occur to me. Have you, by chance, been experimenting with any of the various "cloud" programs now popping up?

**TrainableMan** · TrainableMan's Computer Specs

Dave, there are definitely virus programs out there that change file attributes to +h +s and for default windows explorer settings these files would suddenly "disappear" so I have to disagree that you cannot just rule out a virus but the OP feels sure it is not that in this particular case.

davehc · davehc's Computer Specs

Thanks TM. No Prob.

Appropos getting off the virus comparison diversion, I do have to add one last comment.
I ran Avira on Windows 7. Avira is one of the top rated programs on that link. I have run MSE on Windows 7, almost since its conception, without any supporting anti virus programs. This was the Avira report. The "warnings" were all files in the recycle bin - dunno why they were warnings.

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