Neowin News Feed for: Security essentials

Microsoft Security Essentials loses AV-Test certificate

Rob Schorman — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:18:41 +0000

German IT-security institute AV-Test regularly tests popular antivirus software. In their latest test, Microsoft's free antivirus solution was the only program which failed to receive certification Read more...

Microsoft Security Essentials 4.1.0522.0

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 06:28:07 +0100

Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home or small business PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. Read more...

Microsoft Security Essentials beta available now

Tim Schiesser — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:53:57 +0000

For everyone that accepted the invitation to the Microsoft Security Essentials beta program, your download is now ready, with new improvements to the protection engine and UI Read more...

New Microsoft Security Essentials beta inbound

Tim Schiesser — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:11:04 +0000

Microsoft has just sent out invites via Microsoft Connect inviting people to join a new Microsoft Security Essentials beta program. This is possibly for version 3 of the free antivirus program Read more...

Microsoft Security Essentials 2.1.1116

Steven Parker — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:43:55 +0100

Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. Microsoft Security Essentials is a free download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use,... Read more...

Microsoft Security Essentials ranked second last in AV-Test's protection rating

Denis Wong — Thu, 05 May 2011 08:38:54 +0100

Microsoft's free antivirus solution for all Windows users may be good in terms of usability - in particular, its impact on system performance - but when it comes to actual malware protection, it came almost... Read more...

Microsoft Security Essentials to be available for Small Businesses in October

Tom Warren — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:24:48 +0100

Microsoft said on Wednesday that it will make Security Essentials, its free anti-virus software, available to small businesses in October. The announcement is a u-turn in licensing from earlier this year. Microsoft originally insisted that the... Read more...

Microsoft Security Essentials gets certified

Brandon Boyce — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:08:00 +0100

AV-Test.org, a group with more than 15 years of experience in the area of anti-virus research and data security, has given Microsoft Security Essentials their certificate of approval. They tested 19 anti-virus and security applications... Read more...

Microsoft releases beta for next version of Security Essentials

Tom Warren — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:22:38 +0100

Microsoft announced a beta for the next generation of Microsoft Security Essentials today. Available immediately, the new version includes a new protection engine and inspection system. The beta version includes the following features: Windows Firewall integration –... Read more...

Microsoft warns of fake "Security Essentials 2010" anti-virus software

Tom Warren — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:30:58 +0000

Microsoft is warning users about a fake anti virus product named "Security Essentials 2010", near identical to the naming of the company's own protection software. The fake software is actually the trojan Win32/Fakeinit. If... Read more...

Microsoft Security Essentials Beta released

Tom Warren — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:47:55 +0100

Microsoft is offering it's free anti-virus product, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) to 75,000 lucky people today. The company is offering the product via a beta program and will likely extend the cap of 75,000 downloads... Read more...

Microsoft set to beta Microsoft Security Essentials June 23

Tom Warren — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:20:13 +0100

Microsoft confirmed today that they plan to release a public beta of Microsoft Security Essentials (formerly codenamed Morro) on June 23. The free anti-virus product will begin with a beta program next week and an... Read more...

Morro to be named Microsoft Security Essentials, build leaks

Tom Warren — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:37:39 +0100

Yesterday Neowin exclusively revealed Microsoft Morro to the world, today we can unveil that Microsoft's new and free Anti-Virus will be named Microsoft Security Essentials. The software product, codenamed "Morro" after a beach in Sao... Read more...