![]() ![]() ![]() It provides real-time protection against different types of harmful software, including computer viruses, spyware, rootkits, and trojan horses. The computer giant also offers its own free protection for the users of its operating systems. I've used some other AVs, best left un-named, but their sig update process was so unstable I had to ditch them. Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is a free antivirus program from Microsoft. Microsoft, as the world leader in the distribution of software, has developed Microsoft Security Essentials, a free antivirus for Windows platforms, which are the most widespread on the market. I still have Norton on one system (the one I paid for automatically) but when that runs out - I'd done with Norton. These days I use Ubuntu about 90% of the time but for the 10% that's spent on Windows 7 MSE seems to be working (no hits yet so hard to verify that) and the resource use is much less intrusive (so far). Now the default is "we charge you automatically". Used to be when a subscription ran out they nagged repeatedly and pushed you to their website where you had to acknowledge that you wanted to buy another year's sub. They called it "enhanced customer service", I called it "you just lost a customer". Second, Norton charged my credit card for a subscription update without me initiating the transaction. Not so much a problem on Win7 but on my older XP systems with limited CPU and RAM it's a killer. I switched from Norton (5 licenses) to MSE for a couple of reasons.įirst, Norton was slowing down the system and consuming huge amounts of memory.
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