Comments on: Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 beta

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:20:10 +0000

Believe me, I agree with everything said. In the end, I simply use that HP box as a backup server for the computers in my small office so I figured even if something did go wrong, there was nothing mission critical.

By: Andrew Edney

Andrew Edney — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:15:41 +0000

Thanks Matthew

Just wanted to reiterate what you were saying about being careful

unfortunately a lot of people assume that because its Microsoft it will work, and work flawlessly.

I love your last comment And couldnt agree more!

Andrew

By: Matthew Glover

Matthew Glover — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:53:38 +0000

Thanks for your comments Andrew as I mentioned in the article MSE installs without any issue on WHS, it just hasn’t gone through final ratification from the WHS team. The reason why people are getting problems is because this is beta software which means it will have bugs. I have clearly stated in my article that using this software on anything other than a test environment is nothing short of stupid.

Andrew you are right when you say *”Just because it does install, doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to install it!”* the only thing I would add to that is this software is in beta, Microsoft need real world feedback in order for the product to have most bugs removed before launch, I say install this software but be careful with your data, install only in a test environment.

If you do install on a production machine and it does go horribly wrong, you only have yourself to blame.

By: Andrew Edney

Andrew Edney — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:33:28 +0000

MSE is not only not supported on WHS, but if you dont add exceptions paths once you install it then you may have problems like Dave had.

Best thing with this sort of software (ie antyhing that is security related or antivirus/antispyware) is to wait until a fully supported version is available.

Just because it does install, doesnt mean its a good idea to install it!

Andrew

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:58:29 +0000

Sadly, MSE beta is NOT stable for WHS yet. I have 2 WHS machines. One is an HP MSS (Celeron D) and the other is a home built using an Athlon 64 box I had.

I installed on both machines at the same time. Installed fine on both and operated smoothly for 5 days on both. Day 6, the HPMSS became unresponsive. Home built WHS is still going fine with MSE on it.

The HP box would boot fine and I know would get into WHS as it would register through my Hamachi network. However, it would not allow ANY access either through Hamachi, RDP, or through the Network locally.

Troubleshooted with HP’s WHS support (which was phenomenal BTW) and end conclussion was that something with MSE and the firewall must not have been cooperating. Had to do an image restore of the OS in order to resolve.

MSE is still working fine on my home built WHS box so far.