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Microsoft has just released a new version of its in-house anti-virus software that can be deployed on both x64 and x86 Windows computers.
Still compatible with Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP, Microsoft Security Essentials 4.2.223.0 is available at absolutely no cost, so users can download and use it for fre... |
20 February 2013
02:30 GMT |
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Approximately one month ago, AV-Test rolled out the results of its latest anti-virus test, revealing that Microsoft’s very own Security Essentials had failed to receive the certification. The Redmond-based technology firm reacted quickly and contested the results, saying that they were not completely accurate ... |
7 February 2013
09:01 GMT |
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The title may sound a bit weird given the fact that the anti-virus market was believed to be dominated by world-renowned companies such as Kaspersky and ESET, but that’s exactly what a new study published by research group Opswat claims.
Microsoft is the number one anti-virus vendor in the world, with a market... |
13 December 2012
05:08 GMT |
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avast! Free Antivirus (reviewed here) has been certified as being compatible with the new operating system from Microsoft, Windows 8. Although there are other security products enjoying this approval, Avast’s is the first free of charge to receive it.
As such, it is also the first free security product that ma... |
6 November 2012
05:57 GMT |
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On Tuesday, Redmond-based software giant Microsoft made available for download a new flavor of its Microsoft Security Essentials application, namely 4.1.522.0.
The app sports the same version as the pre-release iteration, but it is available as a separate, stable package and can be downloaded from Softpedia via thi... |
26 September 2012
05:13 GMT |
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Last week, Microsoft announced the availability of a new flavor of its Antimalware Engine, namely version 1.1.8704.0.
The new iteration was released as part of the Redmond-based company’s monthly update for the technology. As usual, the new Antimalware Engine was made available for all Microsoft Security Esse... |
3 September 2012
05:23 GMT |
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Microsoft has just made available for download a new pre-release flavor of its Microsoft Security Essentials tool, namely version 4.0.1540.0. This app version is available as part of Microsoft’s Security Essentials Prerelease program, which provides users with the possibility to grab the latest app iterations... |
2 June 2012
03:25 GMT |
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The final flavor of the latest version of Microsoft’s popular Security Essentials antivirus was made available for download last week. The software was made available in a beta version in the fourth quarter of the last year, when Microsoft also launched the beta testing program for it. The final flavor of M... |
30 April 2012
05:12 GMT |
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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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Just as announced several days back, Microsoft’s Antimalware Engine 1.1.8304.0 has been made available on April 18th, 2012.
Fresh out of the Redmond-based software giant’s laboratories, the new release was pushed to all of the company’s Microsoft Security Essentials customers.
Additionally, the... |
20 April 2012
05:28 GMT |
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A new flavor of the Antimalware Engine is expected to become available tomorrow, Microsoft has announced. The update will arrive as part of the software company’s regular updates for the antimalware technology, and is meant to address the latest in the threat landscape. The Microsoft Malware Protection Cent... |
17 April 2012
08:19 GMT |
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On March 20th, Microsoft made available for download a new iteration of its Antimalware Engine, currently at version 1.1.8202.0.
The new release is targeted at all of the company’s Microsoft Security Essentials and Forefront Client Security, Forefront Endpoint Protection, Windows Intune Endpoint Protection cus... |
21 March 2012
11:59 GMT |
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The new Windows 8 Consumer Preview comes with a new version of the Windows Defender, which is, in fact, the re-branded Microsoft Security Essentials. The new platform release came along with a wide range of enhancements, ranging from graphical changes to new applications and access to new services. Apparently, it al... |
3 March 2012
07:01 GMT |
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A new beta release of Microsoft Security Essentials is now available for download as part of a new public program aimed at bringing improvements to the application to get it ready for a general release.
The new application release comes with Security Essentials and Antimalware Client version 4.0.1111.0, and brings... |
30 November 2011
05:59 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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If Microsoft Security Essentials just picked on your Google Chrome and labeled it as malware (PWS:Win32/Zbot), don’t trust it, it’s a fluke. Google just released a new, unplanned, minor build for Chrome and Microsoft issued a new set of definitions to correct the problem and apology.Those affected by the ... |
1 October 2011
03:50 GMT |
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Old versions of Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) can block the installation of Service Pack 1 on top of Windows 7. It should be common knowledge by now that major operating system upgrades from Microsoft fail to play nice with security solutions already installed on the platform. Microsoft confirmed officially t... |
25 July 2011
08:46 GMT |
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At just a month since the previous update shipped to Microsoft Security Essentials 2.1, a new refresh is now available. As I told you earlier this week, the Redmond company was planning to update MSE with a new antimalware engine release. The software giant certainly managed to live up to its promise, and Microsoft... |
21 July 2011
11:51 GMT |
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Microsoft Security Essentials 2.1.1116.0 is now available through the Microsoft Download Center. According to information from the Redmond company, the latest update to MSE 2.0 went live on the Download Center on June 27th, 2011. As was the case with previous MSE releases, the software giant is keeping mum on versi... |
28 June 2011
09:51 GMT |
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Microsoft Security Essentials is the most popular security solution worldwide according to a report by OPSWAT covering the second quarter of 2011, March 23 to May 15, 2011.Microsoft’s free antivirus offered to users of genuine Windows operating systems including Windows 7 RTM and SP1, has been found to run on ... |
11 June 2011
05:00 GMT |
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After Microsoft Security Essentials, a new free security solution from the Redmond company is apparently enjoying its fair share of success. Microsoft Safety Scanner was downloaded in excess of 420,000 times in the first week after launch, some 60,000 downloads per day, the software giant revealed. Of course, downl... |
26 May 2011
12:11 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 is planning to update version 2.0 of the free security solution offered to Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP customers.Come May 18th, 2011, the Redmond company will introduce an updated antimalware engine release to Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0. The software giant has made it somewhat of a trad... |
12 May 2011
10:35 GMT |
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Microsoft has overhauled the website it uses to serve its free security solution to Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows Vista customers.The redesign of the Microsoft Security Essentials websites comes a bit out of the blue, but then again, so did the actual release of the latest version of MSE 2.0. Just head over to t... |
4 April 2011
09:16 GMT |
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A privilege escalation vulnerability has been identified in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine used in many Microsoft anti-malware products, including the free Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) antivirus.Microsoft announced the vulnerability, which is identified as CVE-2011-0037, in a newly published security ... |
24 February 2011
09:56 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to be mute on the release of version 2.0 of its free security solution for users with genuine copies of Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP even at almost a week after the first v2.0 downloads went live. There are various company employees that blogged about the release of Microsoft Security ... |
22 December 2010
09:52 GMT |
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Microsoft Security Essentials Alert is a nasty piece of malicious code that masquerades as the legitimate Microsoft Security Essentials in order to scare victims into thinking that their computers are infected to get them to pay money for the removal of inexistent malware. The Redmond company first warned of Microso... |
26 November 2010
09:59 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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Microsoft is fighting Microsoft Security Essentials Alert on multiple fronts, and has even started distributing automatically to Windows users a free security tool designed to tackle the threat. Since August 2010, the Redmond company has warned customers of the danger posed by Microsoft Security Essentials Alert, a ... |
15 November 2010
03:45 GMT |
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A new development milestone of Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 has been made available for download, with Microsoft encouraging existing members of the Beta testing program to upgrade to the latest Build. Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0.522.0 Beta continues to be served through Microsoft Connect, which means tha... |
12 November 2010
02:45 GMT |
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A new and aggressive rogue antivirus program, which gets installed through a fake Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) alert, forces computers to reboot and prevents the Desktop from loading.Called ThinkPoint, the program is dropped by a downloader-type application mimicking Microsoft Security Essentials.The downloade... |
30 October 2010
06:33 GMT |
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Microsoft has started serving its free security solution for genuine Windows automatically to customers via Windows Update. Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0 is being offered through WU to all supported versions of the Windows client, namely Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. However, the Redmond company is no... |
28 October 2010
10:50 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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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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With version 2.0 of Microsoft Security Essentials in the oven (available in Beta), Microsoft recently celebrated the one year anniversary of version 1.0 of its free security solution for Windows. One year after the advent of MSE, the software giant is making a series of moves designed to bring the antivirus to more ... |
4 October 2010
08:51 GMT |
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One year after launch, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) has an install base of over 31 million, which is good for a start, but still three or four times less than that of other free AV products.The 31 million number was revealed yesterday on the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) blog in a post celebrating... |
1 October 2010
02:05 GMT |
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Beginning next month, Microsoft plans to offer its Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) anti-malware solution for free to small businesses with up to ten computers.Microsoft released MSE one year ago as an answer to what the company said was a very concerning number of unprotected computers.The product was generally ... |
23 September 2010
03:35 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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There are downsides to market success, and in the case of Microsoft Security Essentials is that attackers build malware designed to piggy-back ride the free security solution from Microsoft. Of course, this phenomenon is not limited to MSE, as it affects additional security products which have been in one way or ano... |
2 September 2010
09:42 GMT |
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Microsoft’s free security offering designed for customers running genuine versions of Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP has received the VB100 award for the August 2010 Edition of Virus Bulletin. Microsoft Security Essentials has managed to successfully pass through the tests from VB, noted Microsoft&rsqu... |
13 August 2010
10:42 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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The first Beta development milestone of the next generation of Microsoft Security Essentials is now available for download. Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 Beta is offered to early adopters through Microsoft Connect. For the time being, the Beta Build, version 2.0.0375.0, is only offered to testers in the United St... |
20 July 2010
12:32 GMT |
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Microsoft is working to kill a rogue antivirus solution that is spread under a label that’s simply too close for comfort to the company’s own free and legitimate security solution: Microsoft Security Essentials. The software giant first warned of a fake antivirus solution being distributed as Security Ess... |
10 June 2010
11:00 GMT |
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When it came out last September, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) was received with both enthusiasm and scepticism by the antivirus industry. Some traditional vendors dismissed the product as being inferior, while developers of freeware anti-malware solutions have generally welcomed Microsoft products amongst thei... |
22 May 2010
16:51 GMT |
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Microsoft has worked to make updates for its free antivirus more accessible to business customers. In this regard, the Redmond giant informed that companies leveraging both Windows Server Update Services and Microsoft Security Essentials would be able to turn to the automated update management solution for delivering... |
1 April 2010
07:35 GMT |
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