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Stories about: Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 |
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While Microsoft is busy improving the built-in antivirus capabilities of Windows 8, Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 continues to be an excellent choice for customers looking for a free and basic security solution. MSE 2.0 was certified by AV-Test.org in the latest series of benchmarks which involved Windows 7 Serv... |
30 September 2011
11:06 GMT |
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Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 is far from the top spot in a latest round of antivirus testing performed by AV-Test, but the free security solution for Windows faired rather well, even on par with paid products. According to statistics shared by AV-Test, MSE 2.0 scored a total of 12 points, 2.5 for Protection, 4.... |
20 July 2011
11:46 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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A new Microsoft Security Essentials Antimalware Engine release is now available to customers leveraging version 2.0 of the free security solution. The software giant announced as early as the past week that it was going to kick up a notch the antimalware technologies under the hood of Microsoft Security Essentials 2... |
19 May 2011
10:08 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 Security Essentials 2.0 delivered a less than stellar performance in the latest round of testing from AV-Test. Despite being one of the products that was certified by the German antivirus testing firm, MSE 2.0 barely did so, with one of the lowest scores among the security products tested. Microsoft Secur... |
5 May 2011
08:36 GMT |
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Users of Microsoft’s free security solution for genuine copies of Windows received an update for the antimalware engine powering the product earlier this week.The antimalware engine refresh is part of the software giant’s normal updating process of Microsoft Security Essentials. According to the Redmond ... |
22 April 2011
06:20 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 new Antimalware Engine release from Microsoft is designed to patch a vulnerability impacting Microsoft Security Essentials, among other security products from the Redmond company. The software giant published Security Advisory (2491888) on February 23rd, 2011, providing details of a vulnerability affecting the Mic... |
24 February 2011
10:16 GMT |
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Users that attempt to deploy Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 might come across an issue where the installation process hands, especially if they have been running the first version of the company’s free security solution for Windows. Essentially, the deployment process would not reach completion and customer... |
3 February 2011
10:10 GMT |
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Microsoft’s free security solution for Windows manages to hold its own against paid antivirus products. At least this is the conclusion that can be drawn from the recently published AV-Test Product Review and Certification Report - 2010/Q4. AV-Test tested a range of paid and free security solutions running on... |
27 January 2011
10:00 GMT |
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As previously announced, Microsoft shipped the first update to the free security solutions it’s offering to users running genuine copies of Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. After being postponed for just a single day, Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 received a new antimalware engine last week. When i... |
24 January 2011
09:34 GMT |
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Customers running the latest iteration of Microsoft’s free security solution for Windows will get the first update for the antimalware engine powering the product today, January 20th, 2011. Microsoft was initially planning to release a refresh for the Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 on January 19th. However... |
20 January 2011
07:50 GMT |
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Seeing as 2011 is just four days away, I thought I’d have a look back at 2010 and make a selection of the most important products that Microsoft launched over the past year. You’ll be able to find the list below, but I just want to say a few words before you start reading. The product enumeration is not ... |
28 December 2010
03:12 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 has wrapped up the next generation of the free security solution it's offering users of Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. In this regard, Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 is now available for download from the Redmond company. According to the information offered with the downloads, the Build ... |
17 December 2010
05:00 GMT |
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Cybercriminals were bound to take notice of the increase in popularity of Microsoft Security Essentials, and fact is that at just one year since release there are various fake AV masquerading as MSE. Some users might have already have been unfortunate enough to come across rogue antivirus labeled Security Essentials... |
26 November 2010
03:52 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 currently gearing up to release Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0, the successor to version 1.0, which was developed under the Morro codename. But the Redmond company is not looking to rebrand the free security solution that it’s offering for genuine Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP, no mat... |
16 November 2010
10:44 GMT |
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Whether they’re running Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0 or 2.0, users that are currently leveraging the free security solution for genuine Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP will be able to update their current version this week. The software giant had planned to release a refresh to Microsoft Security ... |
15 November 2010
11:06 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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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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Microsoft Security Essentials Alert has made an unwanted comeback, but the revival changes nothing and users should continue to steer clear of this piece of malicious code masqueraded as Microsoft’s free security solution for genuine Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. The Redmond company is currently offe... |
26 October 2010
03:34 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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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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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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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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Microsoft Security Essentials, a free security offering designed for genuine versions of Windows platforms, has received an accolade from AV-Test recently, after it managed to pass the same range of tests as commercial antivirus products. AV-Test.org evaluated no less than 19 security solutions in the second quarter ... |
21 August 2010
07:31 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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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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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 Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 continues to be available for download, even at this point in time. The Redmond company announced the debut of the Beta testing process for the next generation of Microsoft Security Essentials almost a week ago. At that time, the software giant... |
26 July 2010
07:41 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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