Microsoft Security Essentials 4 Released

[Lil' ½ Dead]

"This update to Microsoft Security Essentials is part of the standard product update release cycle. This service update contains product enhancements to improve performance and user experience. We have improved on Microsoft Security Essentials’ Automatic Remediation, which will automatically quarantine highly harmful threats without prompting the user to take action as well as minor bug fixes in set up, malware remediation and other areas.”

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[SamCR3]

Thanks. MSE already updated itself automatically this morning on both my machines.

[criss_glitch666]

What would you prefer? Avast Free Antivirus, or MS Essentials? Which would run lighter?

[realneil]

It made me uninstall the old versions first. The new is on and working. Thanks for the heads up!

[SamCR3]

It made me uninstall the old versions first. The new is on and working. Thanks for the heads up!

Weird. Mine just updated automatically through Windows Update.

[SamCR3]

What would you prefer? Avast Free Antivirus, or MS Essentials? Which would run lighter?

I used to run Avast and MSE together. MSE always caught stuff before Avast even knew something bad was about to happen. Not sure which one is lighter.

[Doctor_Death]

Mine updated without removal also.

[Bob2701]

Same here.

[SamCR3]

Neil's computer must have cooties.

[realneil]

I used to run Avast and MSE together. MSE always caught stuff before Avast even knew something bad was about to happen. Not sure which one is lighter.

It's always been the opposite for me. AVAST always alerts first. MSE beats AVAST maybe 5% of the time. That's good enough to keep it there as far as I'm concerned.