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.

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 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 ...

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 now available. Formerly codenamed Morro, this replacement for OneCare is free and sounds like it could be a genuine threat to commercial anti-malware.

Microsoft Security Essentials in action. Most of the time, you’ll only know that Microsoft Security Essentials is running because you see its icon in the System Tray.

We love to rip on Microsoft as much as the next blog, but let's face it: The company has been making all the right moves of late. (Okay, maybe not so much with the hilariously awful Windows 7 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Worse, Microsoft Security Essentials is going away as well. And we don't just mean that Microsoft won't be updating the app with any new virus definitions or signatures.