Microsoft Security Essentials updates itself very quietly in the background. In fact, we were never once bothered by its updating system; the only prompts we received were when the application ...

Microsoft Security Essentials is well designed and easy to use. Installation is simple and straightforward, although it will verify whether your copy of Windows is legit along the way.

Microsoft has released its free antivirus software, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE). As the name implies, Microsoft’s new security software removes the bloated bells and whistles found in ...

AV-Test actually uses Microsoft Security Essentials as the baseline in their scoring system; Security Essentials gets a score of 1.0 and all the others are relative to that.

Microsoft made available to testers this week a new beta build (2.0.522.0) of its next release of Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE), the company's free anti-virus/anti-malware product for Windows.

The open beta for Microsoft's Security Essentials came and went like a thief in the night. Which is too bad, because it's hard to find an article that didn't like the program; every review I&#039 ...

Windows: We've learned to stop worrying about antivirus software since Microsoft released their great Microsoft Security Essentials suite, but today it gets even better, improving Windows Firewall ...

Microsoft Security Essentials is a reflection on that. The software is capable, it keeps users safe and, most importantly, it’s free. Microsoft isn’t trying to make a buck on security.

Personally, I didn’t like Microsoft’s Live OneCare security software; every time I worked with it on someone’s computer, there was a problem of some sort. Windows Defender, however, as an ...

While testing access to Microsoft’s website, I finally got warned by Security Essentials about the modifications I had made to the hosts file. The warning, however, came quite a while after the ...

Microsoft Security Essentials, which is free for both individual use and small businesses, is superb. But like all good things, there's a deadly dark side.