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Microsoft confirms Security Essentials to be released 9/29

It seems to be live now

»www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

reply to CovMac
Downloaded and installed, thanks for the update!

I had been using McAfee and hope this runs a little faster. I am trying it on my laptop for a few days and if everything works OK, I'll put it on my desktop.

reply to CovMac
I installed it on my desktop.
Seems like it doesn't slow the computer down any.

reply to CovMac
I realize there have been a few threads around here during the Beta phase.
It seems from what I've read, in general, a lot of people liked it.

I take it this is intended to be some sort of "all in one suite", that replaces your current AV, antispyware, etc?

Sorry, I realize I could do a little more searching, but the opinions around here are generally more informative to me.

Who's going to go for it...and more importantly, why?
Thanks in advance for any helpful comments.
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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, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple.

Microsoft Security Essentials runs quietly and efficiently in the background so that you are free to use your Windows-based PC the way you want—without interruptions or long computer wait times.

Hope this helps.

Thank you Ronnie...I actually did read that much about it.

Sounds like some pretty impressive advertising.

However, I'm more interested in what people who are actually using it have to say, rather than what Microsoft has to say about it.

(And of course, how effective it really is, comparatively speaking).
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reply to CovMac
Doesn't seem to be available via the updater in the beta version.

reply to CovMac
Ok...well I just watched some videos about it, which explained a bit more. (I suppose I should have done that before I posted).

One thing I noticed, is you have to "validate Windows" (again), in order to install it.
No biggie, but that sure is getting old.

According to the videos, they also recommend removing ALL AV, antyspyware programs, etc, before installing Security Essentials. Hmmm...I wonder if that also includes Windows Defender.

At any rate, if it really works as advertised, I guess we have nothing to worry about anymore...right?

Clear sailing from here on out! Heheh
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jabarnut , I've been running the beta for a while now and i have really grown to like that I don't even notice it being there. It has stopped malicious sites in their tracks that I have gone to. It has caught some files that I have had on my PC for a while that others have missed.

Do, I think it's a cure-all? Absolutely not. I still use a layered approach with a few different programs running side-by-side. But I think this is a step in the right direction.

Thanks CJ...I'm sure when all is said and done, I'll probably give it a shot just for the heck of it.
And as I've often stated before, with an imaging program, I've got nothing at all to lose.

Thanks again for the comments.
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The other thing I like about it is that the interface is really simplistic by design.

You don't have 10 million different little option to choose from. I have actually steered clear of a few free AV's due to that very reason. They didn't "Just work" out of the box. MSE does.

I have actually had it installed on 5 different PC's for quite sometime now, and I have encountered no problems what so ever.

reply to CovMac
Looks like a good free AV option, installed on my eval version of win7 (which was whining about no AV anyway) on a VM, and performance is good - AVs tend to really hurt performance when running in a virtual machine, so that's a good thing.
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reply to CovMac

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You should *never* run more than one antivirus product that provides real time protection as they will conflict, causing performance issues, system instability, and may even cause protection to be compromised.
MSE should not be installed on a system that includes any other antivirus program.
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Stephen Boots
MVP-Windows Live

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For those that visit these threads at DSLR, CJ obviously, I just thought I would get the official word out for those that are not aware.

reply to CJ
"real time protection" usually means they've wormed their way into the bowels of the OS, installed packet filter drivers, etc. So, if you have two or more trying to patch themselves in, they might see the other as an attacker, or just plain stomp all over each other, or "best" worse case everything that you try to do gets filtered twice over. Usually not good.

Its safe to use a scanner-type thing along with one of those real-time protection systems (for example malwarebytes works fine) because they're not installing anything deep in the system.

Kinda reminds me of the good old days of TSR programs under CP/M. OMG, I am totally, like, old. »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminate_···Resident
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reply to siljaline
No worries. I just didn't follow. Seemed like it came out of nowhere.

JohnInSJ ,WOW!!! you are old.

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