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Microsoft: Security Essentials provides "baseline" protection

Shreyas Gandhe — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 06:49:41 +0000

Microsoft has admitted that its Security Essentials software does not provide protection against high level threats and users should install anti-virus products for better protection of their systems. Read more...

Microsoft Security Essentials fails another antivirus test

Tim Schiesser — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 02:15:01 +0000

Microsoft Security Essentials has once again performed poorly in an antivirus test, scoring significantly lower than competitors in Dennis Technology Labs testing for Q4 2012 Read more...

Microsoft Security Essentials fails AV-Test certification (again)

Tim Schiesser — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:11:33 +0000

Microsoft's free antivirus suite for Windows 7, Microsoft Security Essentials, has once again failed AV-Test's rigorous antivirus test for December 2012, scoring well below other free AV products 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 anti-virus update identified Google Chrome as a trojan

Paul Ferson — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:08:07 +0000

Microsoft's Security Essentials has been identifying Google Chrome as a virus, and deleting it from computers. Read more...

Microsoft Security Essentials is most used anti-virus

Tim Schiesser — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 03:48:11 +0000

According to the latest reports, Microsoft Security Essentials is the most popular anti-virus application worldwide. Microsoft’s solution, which is free to all genuine Windows users, has taken the top spot in the second quarter of... Read more...

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

Denis Wong — Thu, 05 May 2011 07:38:54 +0000

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...