Microsoft Security Essentials

[shai]

 

How much longer is this going to take? Because after this I need to do a 30+ hour back up.

[Nyerguds]

Depends on the size, speed and usage of your hard disks? You can always run defrag first, to speed it up, but that generally takes half a day by itself :P

[shai]

After 14 hours it got to just under a quarter, then it stopped when someone made it go to sleep. I think i'll just use Ubuntu to copy the partitions instead, and it will probably be 10x as fast. 

[THE AQIB]

Well backup is a necessary thing..

Even my mom had the same problem..

I fragment rarely..

Why you using security essentials??

It sucks..

[shai]

Well backup is a necessary thing..

Even my mom had the same problem..

I fragment rarely..

Why you using security essentials??

It sucks..

It was the only one I could find that was free.

[Feda]

I use avast! free and Malwarebytes, it's doing a great job. MS Security Essentials sucks, Microsoft itself said that but in different words obviously.

[Andrew]

I have had no problems with MSE on 2 computers. Used it for around 3-4 years.

 

I shouldn't take an hour to scan 8k files. Must be slow/old hdd, or maybe it is failing?

How big (gigabyte) is the hdd?

[shai]

OK, so now the backup software that comes with Windows isn't even backing up all the files I tell it to. 

[shai]

I have had no problems with MSE on 2 computers. Used it for around 3-4 years.

 

I shouldn't take an hour to scan 8k files. Must be slow/old hdd, or maybe it is failing?

How big (gigabyte) is the hdd?

It is a 250GB laptop hard drive, 268,340 files totaling 128GB on drive C and 14,740 files on drive D totaling 33.9GB. I also have Ubuntu installed. 

[THE AQIB]

I use paragon backup..

1000gb hd..(500 x2harddisk)

7 partitions..

[shai]

I use paragon backup..

1000gb hd..(500 x2harddisk)

7 partitions..

I downloaded that one yesterday as well.