Microsoft Essentials of Norton360?

Hello.
Three questions please.

(1) my Norton360 subscription runs out quickly. If I download Microsoft Essentials, it will protect my computer as effectively as has Norton360?

Quick scans about 2) and analysis of the entire system... Is there a difference between the scans I get if I download msert.exe (Microsoft Security Scanner) and the scans that I get when I use Windows Defender?

(3) can you recommend any safe and effective Computer/FREE registry cleaners?

Thank you all.
David.

On Saturday, March 30, 2013 18:45:02 + 0000, david e c wrote:

(1) my Norton360 subscription runs out quickly. If I download Microsoft Essentials, it will protect my computer as effectively as has Norton360?

Not 'as effective', but much more effectively. In my opinion, and
many others of us here, Norton, despite its popularity, is
Among the * more * possible choice.

If I were you, I wouldn't wait your Norton subscription
at the end. Replace with Microsoft Security Essentials now.

Quick scans about 2) and analysis of the entire system... Is there a difference between the scans I get if I download msert.exe (Microsoft Security Scanner) and the scans that I get when I use Windows Defender?

Read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Safety_Scanner

(3) can you recommend any safe and effective Computer/FREE registry cleaners?

N ° none of them are safe, and none are effective. I would highly recommend
that avoid you them like the plague.

Registry cleaning programs are all snake oil. Cleaning of the
registration is not necessary and is dangerous. Let alone register and
do not use any registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and
What software record cleaning suppliers are trying to convince you,
have unused registry entries is not really make you hurt.

The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner by mistake
delete an entry you need is much greater than any potential benefit
It can have.

Read http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000643.html
and http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=28099
and also
http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/Archive/2005/10/02/registry-junk-a-Windows-fact-of-life.aspx

Let me stress that neither me nor anyone else who warns the
use of registry cleaners never said that they always cause
problems. If they have always caused problems, they would disappear from
the market almost immediately. Many people have used a registry
cleaner and never had a problem with it.

The problem with a registry cleaner is that it carries with it
the risk of a significant problem. And since there is no
benefits of using a registry cleaner, running that risk is a very bad
good deal.

Ken Blake

Tags: Windows

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