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After spending about five months in beta, Microsoft Security Essentials 4.0 rolled out as a stable release. It is currently available for download for all users, but existing customers should receive the latest version automatically through the Microsoft Update service. The current update is nothing out of the ordin... |
25 April 2012
07:07 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is gearing up for the release of a new flavor of their Microsoft Security Essentials application, and the company is currently getting ready to kick a new public beta testing period for it.
Apparently, the company has already started to send out invites to existing Security E... |
18 November 2011
05:16 GMT |
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It’s not uncommon for security solutions to have issues with products offering functionality that overlaps or conflicts theirs, and Microsoft Security Essentials is no exception. Apparently, Microsoft Security Essentials 2.1 fails to play nice with antivirus products and with some solutions designed to let user... |
8 November 2011
10:54 GMT |
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When they first start a new Windows 7 computer pre-installed with Microsoft Security Essentials, users can get a warning message informing them that MSE failed to update.
Microsoft confirmed this issue and revealed that customers simply need to connect the new machine to the Internet, and the problem will be resolv... |
31 October 2011
10:59 GMT |
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Microsoft Security Essentials 2.1 now has a new home, under Windows.com, and is no longer hosted under Microsoft.com/security_essentials.
The software giant was completely mute on moving MSE, but then again, the company did not announce the release of v2.0, so silence was somewhat to be expected.
Users navigating... |
27 October 2011
05:12 GMT |
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Microsoft Security Essentials, the Redmond company’s free security solution for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP, has evolved with behavior monitoring capabilities designed to let it identify malicious code that attempts to switch off User Account Control.And this is the case not only for Microsoft Secu... |
6 August 2011
02:30 GMT |
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Microsoft is planning to kick up the antimalware engine powering a number of its security products up a notch in the week of June 20, 2011. According to the Redmond company, an update to the antimalware engine of such products as Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 is scheduled to drop at the start of next week. Howe... |
16 June 2011
07:08 GMT |
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Not only is the real Microsoft Security Essentials quite successful with well over 30 million downloads by the end of 2010, but fake Microsoft Security Essentials is also enjoying its fair share of success, albeit at the expense of unsuspecting users. The rogue security solution was the second most prevalent piece o... |
14 May 2011
02:45 GMT |
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Microsoft was initially planning to release an update to the Microsoft Security Essentials antimalware engine the start of this week. However, on Monday, the Redmond company announced that the refresh had been postponed. Still, users did not get to wait all that long for the update, as the delay was only a single da... |
17 November 2010
10:47 GMT |
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A recent test performed by an AV testing firm suggests that customers are better off running Microsoft’s free security solution for Windows instead of wasting the money on paid antivirus which Microsoft Security Essentials end up outperforming. NSS Labs tested no less than 10 security products including: AVG I... |
20 October 2010
11:30 GMT |
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Although Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 continues to be in development, a new release of MSE is now live and available to customers worldwide. As announced the past week, Microsoft has pushed an update to Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0, yesterday, October 18th, 2010. Essentially, Microsoft has updated the anti... |
19 October 2010
11:03 GMT |
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Even if this is not included among Microsoft Security Essentials’ scheduling plans, there is a way to trigger the application to update its virus definitions and perform a system check whenever the computer is idle.Security Essentials Screensaver can help you with this. It is designed to trigger Microsoft Secur... |
14 October 2010
13:51 GMT |
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At the start of the coming week Microsoft plans to release an update to its free security solution designed for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.According to the Redmond company, a new antimalware engine will be offered to Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0 users come October 18th. Customer currently relying ... |
12 October 2010
10:00 GMT |
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With version 2.0 of Microsoft Security Essentials still in development, Microsoft is cutting limitations associated with version 1.0 of its free security offering in order to open up the product to more and more customers. As of today, October 7th, 2010, end users and home businesses are not the only ones that can t... |
7 October 2010
03:13 GMT |
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Microsoft Security Essentials doesn’t need a “wing man” AV, and it should not act as a wing man to another antivirus product. Microsoft is telling users that its free security solutions offered for customers with genuine Windows platforms needs to fly solo on their computers. Essentially, the Redmo... |
10 September 2010
12:45 GMT |
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Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0 and MSE 2.0 will disable the free security solution that ships by default with every Windows operating system. This means that customers running Microsoft Security Essentials have no need for Windows Defender. In fact, Windows Defender is pushed to the background and switched off by... |
30 August 2010
12:34 GMT |
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The beta development milestone of Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 continues to be available for download, the company indicated, noting that the initial version of its free security solution for Windows received a new certification attesting the quality of the AV product. Earlier this week, antivirus test firm AV-T... |
19 August 2010
03:54 GMT |
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Microsoft has postponed the release of an update to the antimalware engine behind its free security solution offered to users of genuine Windows. Initially, the Redmond company was planning to introduce a refresh to Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0 today, August 16th, 2010. This is no longer the case, the software g... |
16 August 2010
06:28 GMT |
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While building Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0, Microsoft is also preparing to kick up a notch the antimalware engine of its free security solution offered to users of Windows.In this regard, the Redmond company revealed that it is planning to deliver new Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) and Forefront Client Sec... |
10 August 2010
11:14 GMT |
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Security outfit AVAST is downplaying the relevance of Microsoft Security Essentials on the antivirus market. In a recent interview with Softpedia, Vincent Steckler, CEO of AVAST Software, revealed that the free security solution from Microsoft, formerly codenamed Morro, isn’t exactly stealing AVAST users away. ... |
27 July 2010
08:58 GMT |
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Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0, the Redmond-based company’s free basic offering for customers running genuine Windows platforms is one of the best security solutions available on the market, according to tests performed by AV-Comparatives. The tests, which are designed to assess the proactive detection capab... |
14 June 2010
11:15 GMT |
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Microsoft’s free security solution designed to run on genuine Windows platforms worldwide is truly an international product. At this point in time, the Redmond-based company is offering Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0, formerly codenamed Morro, in no less than 25 localized versions. In total, the basic antivi... |
24 May 2010
11:48 GMT |
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This article is also available in Spanish: Antivirus de pago vs. gratuitosTaking care of your system these days seems to be a less complicated task than it used to be a few years back. Now, protection against malware begins the moment you install your operating system. Windows 7 offers some basic security throug... |
2 April 2010
10:57 GMT |
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Este artículo está también disponible en inglés: Antivirus: Free vs. Paid DetectionEl cuidado de tu sistema parece ser una tarea menos complicada de lo que solía ser hace unos años. Hoy en día la protección contra el malware comienza desde el momento en que ins... |
2 April 2010
08:55 GMT |
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Believe it or not, but the recently introduced, free security solution from Microsoft manages to hold its own against fully-fledged, paid security suites from heavyweight players on the security market, at least when it comes down to generic detection and heuristic techniques. In fact, Microsoft Security Essentials 1... |
1 December 2009
06:22 GMT |
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Customers embracing SOA (service-oriented architecture) can get a breath of fresh air when it comes to ecosystem management courtesy of Microsoft and Pluralsight. The two companies are offering “An Introduction to Service Virtualization on the Microsoft NET Platform,” a whitepaper that is already availabl... |
20 July 2009
06:32 GMT |
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Come June 23rd, 2009, Microsoft will open up codename Morro, its upcoming free security solution designed to replace Windows Live OneCare 2.0, to the public. The Redmond company offered official confirmation that codename Morro had been rebranded as Microsoft Security Essentials, and that the first Beta for version 1... |
19 June 2009
03:20 GMT |
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