It's sad. However instead of ditching it entirely I have moved to a combination of MSE for real-time protection and Malwarebytes as backup, which I run every month or so to get anything that might manage to slip through.
I've been doing exactly that, but by the time Malwarebytes catches the virus, the damage might already be done. So even if you use Malwarebytes for occasional scans, there is legitimate need for better realtime protection.
Maybe I should get the paid version of Malwarebytes that can also do realtime scans?
The support team was unwilling to acknowledge and escalate my report that it failed to install the correct msvcrt, it just hopes it is already present.
(Which usually isn't a big deal, but it's not a way end user software should ever fail either)
