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Microsoft Security Essentials is Microsoft's free anti-virus offering.It runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, but not on Windows 8, which has a built-in AV component.

Microsoft Security Essentials is an antivirus software product, it is free for home and small business (up to 10 PCs) users, as long as you have a genuine copy of Windows you can install Microsoft Security Essentials. It runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, but not on Windows 8, which has a built-in AV component .

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How do I allow programs that generate "high" or "severe" alerts in MS Security Essentials?

Microsoft Security Essentials seems to allow only quarantine or delete actions for program that it deems to have "high" or "severe" risk. However, it also assigns these levels to what it considers to be "hacking tools". Is there a way to override…
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Does Microsoft Security Essentials work with any browser?

Will the The Microsoft Security Essentials work with Firefox? (I only use IE for WinXP updates.)
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How do I set Microsoft Security Essentials language to English?

Because right now it's in Bulgarian. Yeah I got a trojan :S.
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Does Microsoft Essentials work with AVG?

Do I have to get rid of AVG if I want to install Essentials on the new Windows 7 OS?
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microsoft security layer

I have been informed by iYogi (Dell "support" in India) that the "microsoft security layer" has expired on my Windows Vista Home Premium which was installed in Jan 2008 when I bought my Inspiron 1420 from Dell. Is this possible ? I have automatic…
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Will Microsoft Security Essentials x64 catch x86 viruses and malwares

I have windows 7 ultimate 64 bit installed on my PC and i have been using Security Essentials for a while. it worked very good for me. but i noticed that some times when i connect my flash to my some of my friends notebooks which had the 32 bit…
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microsft security essentials last update definition time is messed up

It's been a while since my laptop lost track of time. I've been living with it so far, and I've developed a simple script to update computer time using an script every minute. But the problem is MSE somehow managed to update it's definition when my…
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Forcing cleanup in Microsoft Security Essentials

I did a full scan recently. It went on and on and on. So I cancelled it. It said that some malware had been found. But when I cancelled the scan, it simply skipped cleaning up. Is there some way to force it to clean up malware as it gets found?
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Microsoft Security Essentials - Log indicates it keeps crashing

I started up my PC/Windows 7 64-bit tonight and since then Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) seems to keep crashing. I uninstalled MSE then re-installed it, but still the same issue. Each time MSE stops/crashes I try to restart it, but still…
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How do you exclude a file from MSE?

Microsoft Security Essentials has decided that a vbs script I wrote is a vbs/genmalone virus. How can I exclude that file from MSE without excluding everything in its folder or excluding all vbs files?
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Can I download anti-virus update signatures separately?

I recently installed Microsoft's Security Essentials on a family members PC, having previously downloaded the installer over broadband, as their PC is limited to 46K dial-up. Once installed, we set MSE away updating and after 4 hours (and 62MB!) it…
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Security essentials error code: 0x80501001

Using Microsoft Security Essentials, I am getting an error code 0x80501001. How do I get rid of it? What does the error actually mean?
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