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Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.

Microsoft Security Essentials is a free download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple.

Microsoft Security Essentials runs quietly and efficiently in the background so that you are free to use your Windows-based PC the way you want—without interruptions or long computer wait times.

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Microsoft attacks safety category with its free and simple to use AntiVirus Microsoft Security Essentials. At the time of the installation, the software carries out itself the necessary updates. The principal screen presents an overall picture of the safety of the system (protected or in danger), the activation of protection in real-time and the state of the updates of definitions of dangerous programs (virus and software spies).

It is from here you can launch several types of analyses of the computer: rapid, complete or personalized. The scan is done in background task without mobilizing too many resources, letting you to work without problem.

The Parameters makes it possible to plan automatic scans but also to define the attitude to be adopted in the event of threat or to indicate the exceptions. You can also create a point of system restoration. The program does not comprise real advanced options. In addition, undoubtedly leaving the principle that everyone would use only its Windows firewall, Microsoft Security Essentials does not propose any additional firewall.

With Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft addresses itself initially to the general public with a security software without ornaments and simple of use.