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    Two great security tools get free updates[/size][/size]

    By Fred Langa
    Two outstanding security apps, Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 and Secunia Personal Software Inspector 2.0, are now available.

    The original versions of these programs were great, but the new versions are even better; they’re must-have software — and they’re still free![/size]


    The full text of this column is posted atWindowsSecrets.com/2011/01/13/01(opens in a new window/tab).
    Columnists typically cannot reply to comments here, but do incorporate the best tips into future columns.[/td]

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    • #1262791

      The segment on Secunia 2.0 mentioned having it perform the updates rather than having individual updates running. However unless one goes though each and every installed application on a computer and discover how to turn off the automatic update option, you wind up with having Secunia running in the background all the time duplicating the update checking. The update process is still not automatic and requires end user intervention just like the normal update method for flash and java for example.

    • #1262792

      Re the Secunia PSI version 2: Fred’s article says “Like the original, PSI 2.0 scans your installed software and builds a database of application version numbers. It then compares what it found on your system to Secunia’s central database of latest-available version numbers.” This implies that he database contains the most up to date version numbers, but in my experience this is not exactly true. The database contains the latest available version numbers which do not have security vulnerabilities, which is not quite the same thing. I recently ran the FileHippo update checker, which told me that version 2 of a particular program was available, where I had version 1 installed. On running the PSI, it said that version 1 of the same program was “up to date”, and did not offer the new version. On querying this through the forums, I was told that the PSI is a “vulnerability checker” and not an update checker. It does not check for “updates that are made by vendors for bug fixes or cosmetic changes”, and I take this to mean that if an installed version is not seen as insecure then the PSI will say it is up to date. Fred goes on to say that “PSI detects that you’re running an out-of-date version”, but that is not strictly true; seems like it really only detects if you are running an insecure version. Here’s the thread reference: http://secunia.com/community/forum/thread/show/6928 .

    • #1262817

      The latest version also does not work on many XP systems – a known problem on the forums. In those cases we cannot update beyond v1.5.0.1 (although I have the latest edition quite happily running on my Vista machine).

    • #1262823

      I would be concerned about using the autoupdate feature. There are too many application updates out there that do not work correctly such as Adobe Flash Player. Secunia has a section for that app stating the update does not always remove the previous version and you wind up with multiple versions. It even has the path from Adobe where you can get a uninstaller designed for Flash. The normal add/remove from windows does not always remove previous versions cleanly.

      This is no fault with secunia but rather vendors that do not seem too concerned with people being able to uninstall their product. Many times I have had to use other uninstallers such as revo to remove the apps before installing the update.

      Autoupdate will probably work fine with about 90% of your installed apps but can really cause headaches if you blindly depend on the upgrade to take care of itself.

      I would like to see Secunia develop an autoupdate feature that allows users to pick certain apps they do not want to autoupdate.

      I love secunia as a tool to let me know when an application has been patched for security reasons. I will handle the actual update myself. I am not sure what other “enhancements” have been made but I will probably try it since I can turn off the autoupdate “feature”.

    • #1262826

      I don’t like the auto-update feature either. I ran Secunia’s beta version that featured this auto-update feature and ended up having problems with flash. Not sure if it was stricly secunia’s fault, most likely it wasn’t, but whenever there was a new flash version, I had to provide permission to install and that created issues with the UAC. Somehow the dialog to request permission never showed, even if sometimes I managed to see consent.exe on the list of running processes. The dialog not showing while consent.exe running always ended up in a totally unresponsive Windows 7, which always required a hard reset to get out of it. Once I disabled the auto-update feature, this stopped occurring.

      Overall I like the features of the new version, even if I find in interface quite flaky and unresponsive, at times. On my Win7 x64, the graphs never show up. It’s a small thing, compared to the benefits of getting reliable information on the security status of the apps I run.

    • #1262863

      I can’t agree on MSE 2.0 being the best free AV out there. I have a 6 yr old XP laptop. Around Christmas I heard about the MSE 2.0 version and I switched that machine from AntiVir to MSE. That was a big mistake. This machine is light on RAM (512M) but it has functioned acceptably. After installing MSE physical memory utilization had risen to over 400M with no other applications running and the machine was sluggish to the point of seem completely unresponsive at times. I rebooted it a couple times and gave it a couple days with no improvement. Using Process Explorer I discovered that MSE was using around 200M. (about 140M in private bytes.) I downloaded the latest version of AntiVir, uninstalled MSE and installed AntiVir and immediately the machine performed much better. And physical memory usage dropped to under 300M. Since then I have talked with a couple other people and their experience has been that under XP, it puts a significant load on the machine.

      • #1262976

        I can’t agree on MSE 2.0 being the best free AV out there. I have a 6 yr old XP laptop. Around Christmas I heard about the MSE 2.0 version and I switched that machine from AntiVir to MSE. That was a big mistake. This machine is light on RAM (512M) but it has functioned acceptably. After installing MSE physical memory utilization had risen to over 400M with no other applications running and the machine was sluggish to the point of seem completely unresponsive at times. I rebooted it a couple times and gave it a couple days with no improvement. Using Process Explorer I discovered that MSE was using around 200M. (about 140M in private bytes.) I downloaded the latest version of AntiVir, uninstalled MSE and installed AntiVir and immediately the machine performed much better. And physical memory usage dropped to under 300M. Since then I have talked with a couple other people and their experience has been that under XP, it puts a significant load on the machine.

        ]That’s weird because I have it running on 2 Win 7 computers and it is using 157k (on x64 machine) and 166k (on a 32-bit machine). It suggests that there was some sort of conflict with your laptop.

        I should have said that I’m running v2.

      • #1262981

        I can’t agree on MSE 2.0 being the best free AV out there. I have a 6 yr old XP laptop. Around Christmas I heard about the MSE 2.0 version and I switched that machine from AntiVir to MSE. That was a big mistake. This machine is light on RAM (512M) but it has functioned acceptably. After installing MSE physical memory utilization had risen to over 400M with no other applications running and the machine was sluggish to the point of seem completely unresponsive at times. I rebooted it a couple times and gave it a couple days with no improvement. Using Process Explorer I discovered that MSE was using around 200M. (about 140M in private bytes.) I downloaded the latest version of AntiVir, uninstalled MSE and installed AntiVir and immediately the machine performed much better. And physical memory usage dropped to under 300M. Since then I have talked with a couple other people and their experience has been that under XP, it puts a significant load on the machine.

        I agree with Kelly on using MSE 2.0 with XP, even with double the amount of RAM that Kelly has. MSE is a memory hog and an even worse CPU hog. It often uses 80-90% of CPU even with the CPU usage limit set to max of 40%. Has anyone tested whether the CPU limit setting in MSE is actually working? My experience is the CPU limiter does not work during a scan.The problems are similar whether running a scan or just having real time protection turned on. Even with real time protection turned off, MSE still uses large amounts of memory. Not sure what MSE needs that memory for if MSE is doing nothing!!!

    • #1262873

      Hi Fred.

      I’ve been a follower of yours as a paid subscriber for longer than I can remember. I’m glad you’re on board at Windows Secrets.

      I have been using AVG Free for quite some time and have found it to work very well especially the latest version. I also use Malware Bytes free which I update every morning and Super AntiSpyware paid edition. I also use Spybot and Adaware from time to time plus Ccleaner and three or four other similar programs occasionally.

      If I remove AVG and install Essentials will I get better protection than staying where I am now? I have been tempted in the past but wasn’t sure if there would be any advantage.

      In regard to Secunia, I have used it for a long time first the free version and then the paid version. I agree that the new version is pretty slick. It has worked well for me so far.

    • #1262922

      I’ve been running Security Essentials version 1 on Vista Home Premium with no problems. Vista came installed on my Dell Inspiron 530. I downloaded version 2 from the Security Essentials website. Installed it. It said Windows was not genuine. Clicked the button it had to resolve the problem. A webpage appeared for a couple of seconds, then redirected to a search page. Security Essentials still claimed Windows was not genuine. Searched the Microsoft forums. Found some suggestions for changing permissions on the file data.dat, but my data.dat was in a different location and changing its permissions didn’t help. Used System Restore to remove the update. System Restore is very slow, but it succeeded, and now I’m back to a working version 1.

    • #1263013

      Fred Langa has again, as always, presented an excellent, easily understood, current article.
      Thank You
      Ron

    • #1263016

      You did a story on Microsoft Security Essentials In my opinion they all all the same except the name that is involved in the app, Anyway, Your readers are more that likely running to get theirs from MS, But the BAD thing about it is that it uses ALOT of memory in order to function. Microsoft is trying to find a way to LIMIT ones speed, Thats why there are other who if you run Microsoft’s Security Essentials you will have a virus just for having another ANTI-Virus program on file, even if its not being used.Its funny how AVG does not see Microsoft Security Essentials as a threat, but Microsoft Security Essentials sees AVG as a virus. WHY??? Its not because it shouldn’t be used its because Microsoft is trying to corner the market in O.S.
      So the next time you talk about a product as being pretty good take another GOOD look on its approach to not bogging down ones PC

    • #1263036

      I don’t think MonopolySoft fixed it, but my biggest problem with MSE was the fact it didn’t auto-update. If you shut your computer off for two or more days and then reboot, MSE was out of date. Now the interesting part. MSE would not try to update itself nor would it notify you it was out of date. You had to wait for Security Center to pop up and tell you MSE was out of date. Then you had to manually update MSE. I’m willing to bet MonopolySoft isn’t smart enough to fix that bug.

    • #1263062

      If Microsoft Security Essentials is being offered as updates, this concerns me! I run Norton Internet Security 2011 in my Windows 7 laptop and Symantec Endpoint Protection on my XP Professional desktop. Both are exquisite and very complete security suites! I am concerned that these Security Essentials updates will begin to interfere with the proper operation of these security suites. It has been my experience that these Microsoft updates have a nasty habit of messing with other peoples stuff, especially if it is better than theirs! Sorry but I pay for my security, I don’t trust anything that’s free. There is just to much stuff that the free stuff misses. I don’t know how many times I’ve had to reinstall an entire computer because they were running free software which just couldn’t cut it!I do not want one of these updates to overwrite the firewall I’ve paid good money for and unfortunately every security item I’ve gotten by accident from Microsoft has mucked with my installed security suite and I’m not about to go through all that again! I’m hoping that the Security Essentials is an optional update so I can chose not to download it! I’d rather stick with what I have, it’s clearly way better!

      • #1263064

        If Microsoft Security Essentials is being offered as updates, this concerns me! I run Norton Internet Security 2011 in my Windows 7 laptop and Symantec Endpoint Protection on my XP Professional desktop. Both are exquisite and very complete security suites! I am concerned that these Security Essentials updates will begin to interfere with the proper operation of these security suites. It has been my experience that these Microsoft updates have a nasty habit of messing with other peoples stuff, especially if it is better than theirs! Sorry but I pay for my security, I don’t trust anything that’s free. There is just to much stuff that the free stuff misses. I don’t know how many times I’ve had to reinstall an entire computer because they were running free software which just couldn’t cut it!I do not want one of these updates to overwrite the firewall I’ve paid good money for and unfortunately every security item I’ve gotten by accident from Microsoft has mucked with my installed security suite and I’m not about to go through all that again! I’m hoping that the Security Essentials is an optional update so I can chose not to download it! I’d rather stick with what I have, it’s clearly way better!

        You have to download Security Essentials if you want it, so there is nothing for you to worry about.

      • #1263091

        If Microsoft Security Essentials is being offered as updates, this concerns me! I run Norton Internet Security 2011 in my Windows 7 laptop and Symantec Endpoint Protection on my XP Professional desktop. Both are exquisite and very complete security suites! I am concerned that these Security Essentials updates will begin to interfere with the proper operation of these security suites. It has been my experience that these Microsoft updates have a nasty habit of messing with other peoples stuff, especially if it is better than theirs! Sorry but I pay for my security, I don’t trust anything that’s free. There is just to much stuff that the free stuff misses. I don’t know how many times I’ve had to reinstall an entire computer because they were running free software which just couldn’t cut it!I do not want one of these updates to overwrite the firewall I’ve paid good money for and unfortunately every security item I’ve gotten by accident from Microsoft has mucked with my installed security suite and I’m not about to go through all that again! I’m hoping that the Security Essentials is an optional update so I can chose not to download it! I’d rather stick with what I have, it’s clearly way better!

        As Rui said, you have to install MSE yourself in order to have it on your system. MSE is not pushed through Windows Update. Windows Update is one of the channels through which MSE definition updates come to a PC after MSE has been installed on that PC.

      • #1264313

        If Microsoft Security Essentials is being offered as updates, this concerns me! I run Norton Internet Security 2011 in my Windows 7 laptop and Symantec Endpoint Protection on my XP Professional desktop. Both are exquisite and very complete security suites! I am concerned that these Security Essentials updates will begin to interfere with the proper operation of these security suites. It has been my experience that these Microsoft updates have a nasty habit of messing with other peoples stuff, especially if it is better than theirs! Sorry but I pay for my security, I don’t trust anything that’s free. There is just to much stuff that the free stuff misses. I don’t know how many times I’ve had to reinstall an entire computer because they were running free software which just couldn’t cut it!I do not want one of these updates to overwrite the firewall I’ve paid good money for and unfortunately every security item I’ve gotten by accident from Microsoft has mucked with my installed security suite and I’m not about to go through all that again! I’m hoping that the Security Essentials is an optional update so I can chose not to download it! I’d rather stick with what I have, it’s clearly way better!

        Good afternoon to you all,

        I feel compelled to reply regarding comments made by a couple of your fine readers. I have installed MSE on at least 20 different PC’s over the last year or so. And I have to say that I have not been confronted with one single issue, however I will say that I haven’t installed it on any Laptops with only 512mb ram as I feel that by today standards your asking a lot of any coder to create security type software in today marketplace which sits on top of the OS with such a small amount of ram. I would also like to comment on “I don’t trust anything that’s free” comment. Anybody who has been in computing as long as some of the readers on Woody’s knows only too well that there is some fantastic FREE software out there! Irfanview – Systemexplorer – OpenOffice – Gimp – CCleaner – Handbrake to name just a few and these are just som of the Windows ones, there are countless others for Linux, Mac etc. Imagine the hundreds of hours these people have tirelessly spent in front of a screen making this fine software, for persons with a poor fund of knowledge to engage in negative comments. Remember not everybody has the funds to pay for the likes of ‘Symantec’ etc. who imho charge ridiculous amounts of money for their software, and then you have to update it AND pay for this service. This one is a shout out for the little people who put the hours in for the sake of philanphropy. And as for MSE, it’s free at the moment so don’t surrender your hard earned cash when this does the job just as well.


        Hopefully I haven’t offended anybody on this one, if I have I apologise…


        Kind regards

        Steve
        Woodys Office Watch is the best….. :rolleyes:

    • #1263072

      This is a quick note to let people know that there is a problem with the Secunia PSI which I reported to them last November, before the PSI version 2.0 was released.
      —–
      I have since tested PSI 2.0 and it still overwrites the Explorer Start Navigation sound definition.

      As far as I know, this is the only system problem with PSI. It is otherwise a great tool.

      ============= This is my email to Secunia ===============

      Running PSI 1.5.0.2 under Win XP SP3

      I have been looking for the process that destroys the definition of my Explorer Start Navigation sound definition. I have that sound defined as “Start.wav” and after each reboot it gets set to “Sta”.

      If I disable PSI at startup, the sound definition remains as I set it.

      I ran the Sysinternals ProcessMonitor program filtered for registry accesses to
      HKCUAppEventsSchemesAppsExplorerNavigating.current(Default)
      and I found when starting PSI manually that PSI executes a RegSetValue on that registry Key 4 times during startup. The data is garbage and the type is changed from REG_SZ to REG_EXPAND_SZ.

      So my question is why does PSI have to change my sound definitions at all?

      I would also like to submit this as a bug report.

      ============= Response from Secunia ======================

      Subject: PSI Overwrites Sound Definition
      From: Secunia Support
      Date: Thu, December 2, 2010 3:14:37 AM

      Hi

      Thank you for contacting Secunia Support.

      We are aware of the issue and are currently working to fix it.

      If you have any further questions, please let me know.


      Kind regards,

      Emil Jeppesen
      Secunia PSI Support

      Secunia PSI
      http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal

    • #1263087

      Fred writes “Also, you can now limit how much CPU time MSE consumes during a scheduled scan. The default is a maximum of 50% CPU utilization. But you can set it as low as 10% (should you want the scan to have minimal impact on other tasks) or as high as 100% (if you want the scan to complete as quickly as possible)”

      This suggests that one can continue using the PC whilst MSE performs a scan, and presumably also other applications such as Malware bytes. Is this correct? Once a scan starts I have always stopped using the PC until it completes, under the impression that doing something else would corrupt the scan, rather than just prolong it..

      • #1263093

        Fred writes “Also, you can now limit how much CPU time MSE consumes during a scheduled scan. The default is a maximum of 50% CPU utilization. But you can set it as low as 10% (should you want the scan to have minimal impact on other tasks) or as high as 100% (if you want the scan to complete as quickly as possible)”

        This suggests that one can continue using the PC whilst MSE performs a scan, and presumably also other applications such as Malware bytes. Is this correct? Once a scan starts I have always stopped using the PC until it completes, under the impression that doing something else would corrupt the scan, rather than just prolong it..

        George, in my opinion, I would allow MSE to complete its scan before running a scan with MalwareBytes or any other malware scanner. Two malware scanners running simultaneously might cause some potential problems. Productivity apps and such should pose no difficulties.

        • #1264258

          George, in my opinion, I would allow MSE to complete its scan before running a scan with MalwareBytes or any other malware scanner. Two malware scanners running simultaneously might cause some potential problems. Productivity apps and such should pose no difficulties.

          Thanks for the reply. I’m sorry about the delay in getting back to you, but have been pretty busy lately and have only just seen your posting.

          It’s obvious that I didn’t express myself very well. What I was asking was whether it is advisable to continue using a PC whilst a scan is in progress, whether it be MSE, Malware bytes, Secunia or any other scan. I have never even considered running two scans at the same time.

          Anyway, I get the impression from your reply that using a PC during a scan will not corrupt the scan. I have no idea what productivity apps are – Office, Excel, etc or something far more technical.

          George

          • #1264309

            It’s obvious that I didn’t express myself very well. What I was asking was whether it is advisable to continue using a PC whilst a scan is in progress, whether it be MSE, Malware bytes, Secunia or any other scan. I have never even considered running two scans at the same time.

            Anyway, I get the impression from your reply that using a PC during a scan will not corrupt the scan. I have no idea what productivity apps are – Office, Excel, etc or something far more technical.

            George

            You should have no difficulty in running other applications (such as Word, Excel, etc. – productivity apps) while running a scan. That is one of the reasons Microsoft added the ability to change the processor usage setting in MSE 2.0. It installs with a 50% default setting so users can continue to work on things without getting bogged down. I have continued work while scanning for malware, and have encountered no real problems. Depending on what you are running at the time (for example, huge Excel spreadsheets that do an enormous amount of calculations or video editing), you could see some slowdown simply from the fact that your CPU is already running at 50% while scanning with MSE. So your mileage may vary.

    • #1263213

      I have to say, that after seeing it from Fred, as well as other sources, I have both my desktop and laptop running MSE(2.0.xxx) and I am hopeful that MS will keep up.
      That said, I have been also using Secunia’s PSI for a long time and that is also at version 2. This is on a desktop (XP/32bit) and a laptop (now Win7/64bit).
      I have not seen any issues at all so far. Granted, I am now also behind a FiOS router. I removed Comcast Symatec/McAfee stuff during the switch.
      Also, I updated (crocodile-wrestled) the Vista laptop to get it to be Win7 – it wasn’t having any of that ‘Win7-Upgrade’ nonsense.
      Sure, PSI complains about things in places like my copies of thumb drives or the recycle bin. Hey, I’m ok with that.

      Could PSI be better? Sure
      Could MSE be better? Sure
      But they work well for me!

      Now if only my really old Averatec 3225 would run SOME version of Linux….

      I still put all Windows Secrets newsletters into my “Langa” folder.

      Thanks!

      R

    • #1263254

      I have been using MSSE for some time now and having read Fred Langas recent suggestion to get Version 2 I have just spent quite some time trying to get it. First, Microsofts site does not clearly indicate which download is for 32 or 64bits. I guessed and downloaded what looked appropriate. When I tried to install it said I must first uninstall my version????? I did . Then I was told the version I had downloaded was not appropriate for my 32 bit computer and to get the correct version????? I have now done this but find I am back with version 1. This is all contrary to Freds column in this weeks Windows Secrets. Obviously, I am being stupid but I am about to return to Avast which has never caused me the slightest problem.

    • #1263260

      Hi John,

      If you are still interested in downloading MSE 2.0, then you can find it here. Once on the site, click the blue Download Now button, and a pop-up will prompt you for the language you need as well as three options for the download. They are Windows XP 32-bit, Windows Vista/Windows 7 32-bit, and Windows Vista/Windows 7 64-bit. Click the correct one for your OS and bitness, then proceed to download.

    • #1263266

      About MSE – I’m never able to allow updates or to manually download and install them, and MSE is no exception. MS refuses to recognize my system and every time I try, the first screen I get is that it’s checking for the latest Windows Update software, then it offers a download and installation, then it says: The website has encountered a problem and cannot display the page you are trying to view. The options provided below might help you solve the problem.

      I have gone through the troubleshooting, spent hours on the phone with MS free tech help for security issues, all to no avail. About 1.5 – 2 years ago, Susan Bradley, the excellent columnist who writes about updates and patches, sent me suggestions, one of which worked. Once. I couldn’t replicate the working patch/update fix, and have been unable to update since then.

      I’m using XP SP3.

      Has anyone had similar problems and overcome them? I’d like to try MSE since Fred Langa so highly recommends it.

    • #1263279

      I add my voice to those of others who are uncomfortable with letting Secunia PSI automatically update their software. I can’t recommend strongly enough against it for iTunes users who have an iPod. Twice now Apple has released iTunes updates that have been unable to work with one or another species of iPod. The Apple forums indicate that many users have needlessly spent money on a new iPod, mistakenly having concluded that their old one had gone bad, when all that had in fact gone bad was Apple’s software QC.

      Reverting to the prior version IS possible, but Apple does not provide an easy way to do it, and the process is not only quite time-consuming, but beyond the capacity of the casual user.

      A suggestion for a future Secunia PSI revision might be to also inform users of THESE kinds of issues, in the same way that Windows Secrets’ invaluable Patch Watch column does for Microsoft’s updates.

    • #1263304

      On the subject of Secunia PSI 2 not working on Windows XP SP3, I participated in at least two Threads at the Secunia Support Forums, as well as a few e-mail exchanges. These Threads are HERE and HERE . There are some very technical suggestions to try in these Threads. Some of these workarounds worked for some users, others worked for other users, and I had to come up with yet another avenue to investigate. My computer turned out to have its Client For Microsoft Networks misconfigured, and there was a Registry error, and a Windows Service was missing or mislabeled. So be prepared to do some real digging if you are having these sorts of issues between Secunia PSI 2 and Windows XP.

      Secunia is not an updater. It is a security program. Only insecure program versions will be detected. Flash Player can be removed by using Adobe’s own removal tool, described and linked HERE (Adobe official site) . Then the new version can be applied safely.

      if you want a very comprehensive Update Checker, consider SUMo . Be SURE to download the “No RK” version, to avoid spyware being included in the download. Otherwise, this program is clean. This program knows the latest versions of thousands of programs. Any programs they do not track should be few enough to check manually.

      I have not had any problems with MSE 2 on my Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Toshiba Satellite laptop. And the program, in combination with Super Antispyware Free, has caught numerous attempts to infect that laptop, often stopping intrusions before they could download and install. Both of these programs are Native 64-bit, which I like for 64-bit Windows. Otherwise, I only have the Windows 7 Firewall, in its original configuration. For me, this is enough. For added protections, some folks have added either Zone Alarm or the Comodo Firewall, but I think these HIPS Firewalls are a bit of overkill under Windows 7.

      Whatever you use, if you use any protections and try to keep your system up to date, you are miles ahead of the crowd of most Home Users and even many small businesses. So pat yourselves on the back and get on with just using your computers. You have done well enough.

      -- rc primak

    • #1263477

      Ref: Secunia PSI

      Installed the program on two separate computers. WinXP SP3 and Win7 Ultimate. Both systems installed and ran as per the program.
      Have both computers set to sleep after 15 minutes. Win XP went nighty-night OK. Turn system on and popped right back up. Has been working fine for two days.

      How ever, Win 7 is a different story, installed and ran program. When Win7 went to go to sleep BAM- Got You BSOD

      DRIVER POWER STATE FAILURE

      STOP x0000009F

      (0x00000000000000003, 0xfffffA800759E060, 0xFFFFF800044D0518, 0xFFFFFA80097DB2A0)

      After many hours at Win7 forums, reading all the different solutions for this stop and the hardware/software configuration and running two memory test for six hours
      I came to the conclusion there had to be a problem with program. I un-installed the program, cleaned up the registry, reset the computer to go to sleep and it now works great.

      I re-downloaded the program, re-installed and ran the program, fixed a cup of coffee and waited 15 minutes for the system to go night-night.
      Right on the money…BSOD same stop. Un-installed, cleaned up registry, rebooted system and Win7 now works fine.

      Going to contact Secunia and let them know of problem.

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