Microsoft will block users running counterfeit copies of Windows from installing the free Security Essentials antivirus software, the head of the company’s anti-piracy group said yesterday. Security ...

Microsoft Security Essentials, which until now was known by its code name Morro, is Microsoft's second stab at a comprehensive antivirus, antimalware product. The new free Microsoft Security ...

Windows only: We took a first look at Microsoft Security Essentials, the free antivirus application from Microsoft, back in June, but today Microsoft Security Essentials has left beta and is ready for ...

Microsoft’s latest addition to its fleet of free applications, Security Essentials, is smaller, fast and efficient, but doesn’t offer the wider range of features that security suites do. The ...

Microsoft will make its Security Essentials PC security pack, which costs nothing to consumers, free of charge to small businesses as well. The package, which is the successor to the ill-fated OneCare ...

Microsoft today released a limited beta version of Microsoft Security Essentials, a free antivirus application for users of Windows XP, Vista, or 7. The new app ...

Less than 24 hours after it launched MSE, Microsoft has reached the maximum 75,000 downloads for its MSE free antivirus product, released Tuesday. Users who now try to download MSE will be treated to ...

Businesses with more than 10 computers under management will be pushed to use Microsoft’s paid Forefront security product/service. “In an about-face, Microsoft is now planning to offer its free ...

There’s an expression that when you get something for free, you get what you pay for, but that admonition doesn’t seem to phase users of the free Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) antivirus software ...

Microsoft Security Essentials is fake. Well, it is and it isn’t. Microsoft Security Essentials is a free antimalware protection program from Microsoft, but a new malware threat identified by security ...

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The just-released beta of Microsoft Security Essentials is a solid, free tool that protects against malware while taking up few system resources and staying out of your way as much as possible. This ...