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After a short three-month beta system, Microsoft is formally releasing Microsoft Safety Essentials (MSE), its totally free, real-time customer antimalware remedy for fighting viruses, spyware, rootkits, and Trojans. MSE is one more layer of defense the business is offering to aid its consumers combat the threats that plague Windows PCs.
Microsoft Safety Essentials is accessible for Windows XP 32-bit (eight.61MB), Windows Vista/7 32-bit (four.28MB), and Windows Vista/7 64-bit (4.71MB). The last build amount is 1.0.1611.0. Microsoft warns that MSE shouldn't be put in alongside every other antimalware software. Certainly, MSE's installer disables Windows Defender completely, which can make feeling because it is really a type of superset to Windows Defender. It builds upon Windows Defender by offering both real-time protection and on-demand scanning for all types of malware.
Although you won't be asked for personal information or to register for anything,Windows 7 Ultimate Product Key, you'll need to pass the Windows Genuine Advantage validation to install MSE. In quick, while Microsoft's protection updates are accessible for free to pirates, active protection from Redmond isn't.
One might notice the "Essentials" branding that Microsoft is clearly pulling from Windows Live Essentials. MSE won't be included in WLE,Microsoft Office 2010, however, even though non-Windows Live applications like Silverlight are included in the suite. Furthermore, there is no download link for MSE included in the final release of Windows seven,Windows 7 Key, but there is for Windows Live Essentials. This is a curious decision given that Redmond wants to push MSE out to all those who currently do not have a protection solution (between 50 and 60 percent of Windows users, according to the business). Nevertheless, it can be quite easily explained: Microsoft wants to avoid antitrust issues from competing protection giants.
Now that you've got the necessary background information, let's take a closer at the different features of MSE.
The GUI
Microsoft Protection Essentials has one of the simplest and clearest GUIs we've seen for an antimalware resolution. This is not something we would call "obtrusive" or "bloated" like many of the safety products currently on the market. It may not be the most elegant design,Office Standard 2007, but that's not what one should be looking for in a protection solution anyway. An antimalware remedy needs to clearly communicate important information when you're using it; barring a need for user response,Windows 7, it ought to make itself scarce.
When everything is running because it really should, MSE can make sure users know all is well, with a green-colored highlighting across the UI and via a green taskbar icon.

When something is amiss, MSE can make sure users know they'll need to take action, with red-color highlighting across the UI and via a red taskbar icon.

Microsoft Protection 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 actually needed our attention, like when it detected a threat that needed to be cleaned. Signatures are updated more or less daily through Microsoft Update, though new signatures can be published as often as 3 times a day. The core antimalware engine is scheduled to update itself with new features and bug fixes on a monthly basis.

The History tab is useful for reviewing how well the program is working, and tweaking decisions you've already made on previous detections. It gives a great overview of what the method has found and also gives more information on each potential threat.

MSE has a surprising amount of settings to work with. Considering the simplicity of the product, it's still very customizable. Power users enjoy having tons of features to tweak, and we think they'll be satisfied with the settings that can be changed in MSE. It doesn't offer as many options as some other protection suites, but given its features, the settings that can be adjusted are exactly what one would expect.