IS MSE good enough?

[AUS14]

Jun 2014
When my PC was infected recently, MSE was unable to clean it up. Reason is when MSE updates it requires a PC shutdown or restart for the latest update to work immediately and clean-up. Ergo, the latest update will work at next online session. "Trojans" use this and will not allow PC to shutdown or restart. Is this issue common only to MSE? Is this assumption correct? Can anyone clarify and how can this MSE issue be solved?

 

[Eduello]

MSE is a very poor antivirus. Download Malwarebytes and run it in safe mode. If the infection prevents this, download it on some other PC, put it on a flash drive and then run it in safe mode. Once you've cleaned the infection install something like Avast or AVG to stop this from happening again.

 

[Hawkeye22]

I've never had MSE request or reuire a shutdown or restart unless the entire application has been updated. Updating virus definitions doesn't require a reboot. That said, no AV program is 100% and should be supplemented with a second program. Just be sure both programs aren't active at the same time. MSE is pretty good, but there have been a few times where I've seen it let stuff through that it shouldn't. I like to use avast as my full time A/V and manually run a scan with malwarebytes once a week.