Download Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) Free Antivirus
Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) helps enhance the security and performance of your computer. It contains functionality that may identify certain files as suspicious. Microsoft is continuously updated with new features and services.
Viruses, rootkits, and malware are dangerous files that are used to identify PUP or malicious software on your Windows PC. MSE antivirus scan for unwanted applications from system hard drive, USB pen drive, etc. To make sure your PC stays protected.
Microsoft Security Essentials runs silently and effectively in the background, allowing you to use your computer without interruptions or lengthy booting times. If you have other antivirus or anti-spyware programs installed on your Windows PC, they may conflict with security essentials and prevent it from working properly.
Having multiple antivirus programs may also cause severe performance issues on your computer. Therefore, it is recommended that you remove other antivirus programs before continuing with this wizard.
Once you download and install the Security Essentials you must restart your Windows PC, this may affect the performance of MS windows security essentials and other programs currently running on your computer.
Microsoft Security Essentials Key Features:
• Real-Time Protection: Turn on real-time protection alerts you when a virus, spyware, or other potentially unwanted software attempts to install itself or run your computer. Select real-time protection options by monitoring file and program activity on your computer and scanning all downloaded files and attachments.
• Turn on Firewall: In order to optimize your Windows PC protection, you should use a firewall. If you do not have a firewall turned on, MSE antivirus can turn on Windows Firewall during this installation. Quarantined files remain disabled until you manually allow them or remove them.
• Scan Archive and Removable Drives: Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus also scans for viruses, spyware, and rootkits in archive files such as ZIP, RAR, or CAB files.
• Create a System Restore Point: When you select this option, Microsoft Windows security essentials will create a system restore point on your computer on a daily basis before removing, running, and cleaning your MS Windows PC.
• View the Full History Results: When you select this option, MS Essentials will allow non-administrator users on this computer to view all the detected items in the history tab. You can view the item that was detected as potentially harmful and the actions that you took on them.
• Send Files Samples Automatically: Automatically send samples to help Microsoft determine whether certain detected items are malicious. If a file is likely to contain personal information, you will be prompted before it is sent.
• Scheduled Scan: With MSE you can run a scheduled scan on your PC. It will start the scheduled scan only when your PC is on but not in use. It will also check for the latest virus and spyware definitions before running a scheduled scan.
• Excluded Files and Locations: Excluding certain files and locations can help speed up a scan, but may leave your computer less protected. To add multiple files and locations, use a semicolon to separate the entries in the text box.
• Excluded File Types: You can exclude specific file types from a scan. Excluding items can make scans faster, but your PC might be less protected against the latest malware. To exclude multiple file extensions, separate the items with a semicolon (;).
• Excluded Processes: When you add a process, any file that the process reads from or writes to will be excluded from a scan. This can make a scan faster, but your computer might be less protected against viruses and malware. You should only add processes with the extension .exe, .com, .dmg, or .scr.
• MAPS: If you use the Microsoft Active Protection Service (MAPS) to automatically report malware and other forms of potentially unwanted software to Microsoft, MAPS can provide better protection for your PC.
Note: Microsoft Security Essentials works great on Windows Vista, and 7 (32-bit and 64-bit). If you are using Windows XP operating system you will get a PC status “Support for this operating system is ending. When this occurs MS Windows security essentials will no longer be supported and your PC might be unprotected.
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