It's a problem with Chuck, not with Microsoft Security Essentials. For
some reason I have never tried the custom configuration... nor even
wondered about what it does. But it does exactly as you say. I feel
pretty stupid.
Chuck Norcutt
On 8/31/2013 12:22 PM, Jez Cunningham wrote:
> 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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