In Win8, MS Security Essentials has been integrated and renamed as Windows
Defender. The Scan options are Quick, Full and Custom and the latter allows
you to select the drives, folders or files to scan. Is that option not on
MSE?
Jez8
On 31 August 2013 17:15, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I also use MS Security Essentials for exactly the same reason you do.
> The only problem with it is that it's not possible to scan only a single
> drive or particular folder. I almost never have to do that but have
> downloaded (and then unistalled) another virus checker for the rare case
> I want to do that. (only once that I can recall).
>
> I suspect you may also be correct re the current incarnation of Internet
> Exploder but I just can't bring myself to use it and it is the biggest
> target of all thus giving Microsoft a run for their money.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 8/31/2013 11:35 AM, DZDub wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Internet Explorer is awful! Try Google Chrome.
> >>
> >
> > I think that's the conventional wisdom, but I've watched Firefox fall
> from
> > favor and I watch Chrome sort of start humble and then get more junk
> > attached to it. I seem to detect a pattern.
> >
> > I started using IE this summer for a few things and noted that it sort of
> > works OK now. If you can neutralize a few things, it is as fine to use
> as
> > Chrome. I also figure Microsoft is invested in not allowing the OS to be
> > ruined via its own browser, so I would generally feel good if IE worked
> for
> > me, and I continue to try to make it do so (though I'm on Chrome right
> now
> > and pretty comfortable with it). Incidentally, I got rid of third-party
> > virus checkers too and use MS Security Essentials, whose sole purpose I
> > would like to think is to guard my use of the computer, rather than to
> keep
> > trying to get me to buy more protection for this and that blah blah blah.
> >
> > Joel (Fool's Paradise) W.
> >
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