Microsoft Security Essentials Available For Download

QuackPot said:

I've downloaded this and it's been doing a scan for over an hour and it's only at 10% or so. :|

A full scan will take a while, especially if you have a lot of stuff on your system. You might want to stop the scan and then do an on-line scan with Kapersky - Free Virus Scan - Kaspersky Lab or ESET - Free ESET Online Antivirus Scanner. I did that, and then set MSE to do quick scans daily.

ratePV said:

What will other security companies say to this?

MS has released a secure, reliable, fast and FREE AV software?

Can we expect Kaspersky AV Free edition , NOD32 Free...etc...

That should be interesting. I suspect that they will continue to tout their excellent programs, without going the free route.

I don't see Microsoft killing them, just winging them a bit. :)

Quick scans generally take no longer then 15 minutes for me, full maybe an hour? Never paid to much attention.

It took about an hour to do a full scan with about 700,000 files.

MSE did not even detect the famous mywebsearch toolbar.

Dinesh said:

MSE did not even detect the famous mywebsearch toolbar.

Whats that?

Hi Dinesh,

Although I and a lot of other people class this item as undesirable, including some antispyware companies - the actual status is open to dispute as it is actually supplied by some major OEM's such as HP and Dell

MyWay Searchbar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Edit Hi DNG Too

DarkNovaGamer said:

Dinesh said:

MSE did not even detect the famous mywebsearch toolbar.

Whats that?

Let me google that for you