Gregg Keizer has been chatting with Microsoft’s PR bunnies: Microsoft … confirmed that it will launch its free security software suite, which has been in development for almost a year. … “Microsoft ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’ve put the final version of Microsoft Security Essentials through its paces, and have found it a solid, simple-to-use anti-malware tool that takes up little RAM and system resources. Less clear, ...

Note: This review addresses the firstversion of the product. Standalone antivirus product Microsoft Security Essentials hascaused a stir, as might be expected when the words “Microsoft” and”free” are ...

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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A beta of the latest version of Microsoft's antivirus product is now available for any user with a Windows Live account. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...