Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0.0375.0 Beta
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.
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New beta version of free Antivirus from Microsoft has arrived. Compatible with Windows 7, Vista and XP, Microsoft Security Essentials is a complete Antivirus that protects your computer in real time from various threats including malware, rootkits, spyware and trojans.
Updates can be made through Windows update or independently by Microsoft Security Essentials update feature. Microsoft Security Essentials also offers multiple configurations. You can schedule scans, standardize actions and alerts, configure real-time protection, and exempt specific files and folders from scans and other possibilities.
Keeps Getting Better
Microsoft Security Essentials is a new and improved protective mechanism, because now it has advanced detection and cleaning capabilities with better performance. Now, it is integrated with Windows Firewall. Installation of Antivirus allows you to enable the firewall, as you shall confer on the image below.
It also works in conjunction with Internet Explorer. Advanced integration between the two helps prevent unsafe scripts for you to surf more safely.
Always Simple Interface
The interface of Microsoft Security Essentials is marked by simplicity. The home tab tells the protection status, i.e., if real-time protection is enabled and if the virus and spyware definitions are up to date.
You can also find different options to scan the computer, which can be quick, full or custom. Quick Scan checks the most important areas of the machine, while the Full Scan does not leave any file. Custom scan only scans those folders that you define.
Settings
You can customize Microsoft Security Essentials according to your needs. You can schedule scan, set default action when a threat is found, turn on or turn off real-time protection, exclude files, folders and processes, exclude by extensions and join Microsoft SpyNet community.
Registration and Download
To download Microsoft Security Essentials Beta 2, you must have registered on Microsoft Connect. After you click Download Now above, you are directed to the page where you must log in with your Windows Live ID. If you don’t have an ID, you can sign-up and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the registration.
With successful login, select the download link in accordance with your operating system (32-bit or 64-bit) and download.