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The Microsoft Malware Protection Center has announced that Microsoft Security Essentials is celebrating its first birthday today. That in itself isn’t so interesting but a lot of the information and links to data reports are.

It’s been a busy year for Microsoft Security Essentials. As we observed right after the first week of release, Microsoft Security Essentials had already detected threats on over half a million computers. As Microsoft Security Essentials enters into its second year with over 31 million installations, 27 million of those computers have reported infections to the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC).
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Been using it since way before the public release, no infections or problems yet, and v2 should be available relatively soon. The rankings for MSE with AV Comparitives have steadily been improving as well so it's getting better all time, and some competition that stomped it at the beginning have now fallen to the wayside in those same ratings.
 
Yeah, plus can't beat the price. Free. Been using it since it was OneCare and honestly haven't had much to complain about.
 
One of the best products Microsoft has put out. Small footprint, effective and it's free. What's not to like?
 
I agree with all above. It is great. I can't believe it's only a year old. I feel like I've been using it forever.
 
+1 to all comments. I haven't had a complaint since I installed it. I've recommended it everyone, even those who had wasted money on other security products. Uninstall those, install these, and be worry-free.
 
I think it sucks that Microsoft can't bundle MSSE with Windows. That would do alot to mitigate the 'Windows is virus fodder' image that people and companies tend to perpetuate. Unfortunately the speed dial lawyers virus makers have on retainer will never allow that.
 
King of Heroes said:
I think it sucks that Microsoft can't bundle MSSE with Windows. That would do alot to mitigate the 'Windows is virus fodder' image that people and companies tend to perpetuate. Unfortunately the speed dial lawyers virus makers have on retainer will never allow that.
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Yeah, that wouldn't work. Especially with the EU antitrust cases, can you imagine what would happen if MS bundled it?
 
TheWeazmeister said:
Yeah, that wouldn't work. Especially with the EU antitrust cases, can you imagine what would happen if MS bundled it?
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Sad too cause it would help a lot of people. If windows came with MSSE pre-installed and configured for people, I wouldn't have to field calls from family friends about what is good anti-virus. I'd just stay it's already installed! Of course you'll still get all the other bloat ware installed on a PC purchased from the store.
 
MajorDomo said:
One of the best products Microsoft has put out. Small footprint, effective and it's free. What's not to like?
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this. while it lacks a lot of the features of other software I find that I really don't miss it, esp when working with customers. for myself even I think I am going to use it. Avast has proven very worthwhile but even on my machine it adds a good 25 seconds to the boot time (or the time it finishes loading that is). For my next install I will probably go to MSSE, there just isn't a reason not to. MS hit this dead on here, does just what its suppose to with no junk. Def added value to their platform.
 
DudeItsMe said:
+1 to all comments. I haven't had a complaint since I installed it. I've recommended it everyone, even those who had wasted money on other security products. Uninstall those, install these, and be worry-free.
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Same here. Some people don't understand that even though it's free, it's still better than the junk they are paying for.
 
I've experienced similar. A friend of mines called asking which AV would I choose, 360 or Mcafee and thought I was blowing her off when I suggested security essentials, even after I pointed out that I've had it running on her mom's PC for months and it's been spotless. After trying to explain that free does not always mean it sucks I ended up just telling her to download nod32 to get her to shut up.
 
Ryokurin said:
I've experienced similar. A friend of mines called asking which AV would I choose, 360 or Mcafee and thought I was blowing her off when I suggested security essentials, even after I pointed out that I've had it running on her mom's PC for months and it's been spotless. After trying to explain that free does not always mean it sucks I ended up just telling her to download nod32 to get her to shut up.
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You should just have had her hand you $50 and download it for her. Then she can fell like it's worth something because she spent more! :D
 
MSSE is a great av program, if only it would protect against the green shield Antivirus malware - oh well, MBytes takes care of that.
 
I installed this thing (removed avast first) and my Win7 is running like crap now. Maybe it just needs a little bit to get it's bearings, but if it keeps it up, it's coming off. :\
 
ViperGrendal said:
I installed this thing (removed avast first) and my Win7 is running like crap now. Maybe it just needs a little bit to get it's bearings, but if it keeps it up, it's coming off. :\
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From my experience with MSE, when you first install it it will do a deep scan that will somewhat tax a mediocre system but after that you will hardly notice it at all.

I've had 4 of my close friends switch over to MSE from the free version of AVG, so far they love it.
 
It's crap. It's great at stopping ten year old trojans and maybe it will tell you something's wrong but a free version of mawarebytes makes it look sick.

If you think it's great, fine but somebody had to pop the balloon on this love fest. I'd love to have a great AV program for free but for me this one is worth less than it's price.
 
According to AV Comparatives and several other tests it's pretty effective. Up until the August refresh on the AV Comparatives score it was listed as Advance+ along side the usual favorites (nod32, Kapersky, Bit Defender) and a lot of the areas it lacked in for the August tests such as intrusion protection are addressed in the 2.0 beta. Is it perfect? No, but no Antivirus is and despite being free it usually meets or exceeds the usuals in performance and detection.

http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews/main-tests
 
Another +1 to all of the good complements. I have been running the 2.0 version and it runs like a champ.
 
Put me down as another person who loves it. I push it pretty hard to all out students.
 
I mad all my family and friends use it.

but I must say, after it detects something it’s removal process is relatively slow.
That was (and still) never an issue for me but I have an archive file that contained few thousands of viruses, Trojans and backdoors (just search security-exchange.net 6000 Viruses) after disabling MSE, extracting the file and enabling it again, it took ages to finish. it kept popping up dozens of suppurate alert messages each contained just few of the infected files though all where in the same place, and each message took a lot of time since it takes a long time to clean the infected files though it was just removing the file and not trying to disinfect it.
The first thing I tried after installing version 2 beta is to try that again but it did the same.
 
Holy crap, a few thousand viruses? I've never even encountered that on friend or family's computer who have no idea what they are doing. That's crazy.
 
You guys wanna hear something funny? I'm an IT tech for a company, and I deal with viruses all the time. I don't use MSE because we have a corp. antivirus license....mcafee which sucks. Anyway, I got notified that this person's computer is infected, I looked at it, and it was a window that popped up that looked exactly like the MSE threat detection window! I know I didn't install it for this person, so I ran malwarebytes, and it caught it, and deleted it. but just to think....this actually looked totally legitimate, exactly like MSE....because I recognize the window. So I figured it was a totally fake....and it was....but its weird to find that on a computer out in the wild, and it looks legit unlike others that I can tell are fakes.....
 
I think there is room for lots of AV companies, but I am glad that MS has released a version, for free, which really sets a benchmark worth competing against. Personally, if all AV programs were compared directly against it....I would consider it fair.
 
natos said:
You guys wanna hear something funny? I'm an IT tech for a company, and I deal with viruses all the time. I don't use MSE because we have a corp. antivirus license....mcafee which sucks. Anyway, I got notified that this person's computer is infected, I looked at it, and it was a window that popped up that looked exactly like the MSE threat detection window! I know I didn't install it for this person, so I ran malwarebytes, and it caught it, and deleted it. but just to think....this actually looked totally legitimate, exactly like MSE....because I recognize the window. So I figured it was a totally fake....and it was....but its weird to find that on a computer out in the wild, and it looks legit unlike others that I can tell are fakes.....
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My psychic debugging skills say you had:

https://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?Name=Rogue:Win32/FakePAV

This post is made "AS IS" without warranties, and confers no rights.
 
natos said:
You guys wanna hear something funny? I'm an IT tech for a company, and I deal with viruses all the time. I don't use MSE because we have a corp. antivirus license....mcafee which sucks. Anyway, I got notified that this person's computer is infected, I looked at it, and it was a window that popped up that looked exactly like the MSE threat detection window! I know I didn't install it for this person, so I ran malwarebytes, and it caught it, and deleted it. but just to think....this actually looked totally legitimate, exactly like MSE....because I recognize the window. So I figured it was a totally fake....and it was....but its weird to find that on a computer out in the wild, and it looks legit unlike others that I can tell are fakes.....
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Ah yes, know that one...

Trojan Fake\AV BUP.

Screen looks exactly like MSE too even down to the little icon in the top left corner.

:cool:
 
mekkanic said:
quite possibly the best software product of the year...
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I can't believe that we are cheering microsoft. Microsoft was an evil empire until
1) Apple took over in terms of market cap $
2) MSE was free and worked well
3) Win 7 was and is an amazing OS but under appreciated
4) Win Phone 7 ...will be... launched

If its Phone launch is successful, look for zune to start to get at least better noticed.
 
chrispycrunch said:
I can't believe that we are cheering microsoft. Microsoft was an evil empire until
1) Apple took over in terms of market cap $
2) MSE was free and worked well
3) Win 7 was and is an amazing OS but under appreciated
4) Win Phone 7 ...will be... launched

If its Phone launch is successful, look for zune to start to get at least better noticed.
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1) Umm, Microsoft doesn't make PC's (unless you count zune and Xbox) So not really fair when Apple makes most of its money on Hardware and ITUNES.

2) THat's your opinion and it counters mine so moot point :D
3) Amazing compared to Vista, yeh, Compared to anything else, meh.
4) ...So what

Zune? Who cares, cept you maybe then ok, yay you.

It's still an evil empire if you have to deal with their crap and work in IT every day.
But Apple still sucks in the enterprise and Linux on the desktop will be lucky to ever
see 10% penetration because it's supporters STILL think that everyday tasks should somehow involve a Command line or confusing directory structure.

But that's just an opinon...
;)
 
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