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MS Free antivirus now out of beta and available to all...
« on: September 29, 2009, 19:44:32 PM »
...I've been using the closed beta for a while, it's small and fast... doesn't have too many bells and whistles but it does the job and it's free

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

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Re: MS Free antivirus now out of beta and available to all...
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2009, 11:46:13 AM »
Just a quick note to say I've been using this since release and couldn't be happier with it.

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Re: MS Free antivirus now out of beta and available to all...
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2009, 12:08:22 PM »
Just a quick note to say I've been using this since release and couldn't be happier with it.

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Re: MS Free antivirus now out of beta and available to all...
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2010, 03:41:14 AM »
Interesting, will note this incase I go broke and need something free again, atm I'm using kaspersky, seems to be a nice all round package.

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Re: MS Free antivirus now out of beta and available to all...
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2010, 20:43:32 PM »
Well it had to happen - but AVG just failed to stop a Trojan first time on wife PC. It wasn't even aware there was one with a full scan but Vista reported it.

So Installed MS free AV and it stopped it and removed it

Nice one MS  O0

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Re: MS Free antivirus now out of beta and available to all...
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2010, 09:06:34 AM »
maybe I could try this, I am getting tired of avasts constant updates & annoying little messages

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Re: MS Free antivirus now out of beta and available to all...
« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2010, 13:37:12 PM »
* LooseCannon downloads Microsoft Security Essentials

Avast ... annoying little messages
Yes, they're are very annoying.  However, you can turn them all off. ;)

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Re: MS Free antivirus now out of beta and available to all...
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2010, 13:55:03 PM »
* LooseCannon downloads Microsoft Security Essentials

Avast ... annoying little messages
Yes, they're are very annoying.  However, you can turn them all off. ;)

Yep its easy to turn them off - install MS AV and uninstall AVG ;)

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Re: MS Free antivirus now out of beta and available to all...
« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2010, 14:22:49 PM »
Just a quick note to point that if any one does download this, you must uninstall and remove your previous anti-virus first. You can usually find tools to run to do this. Otherwise you tend to have problems.

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Re: MS Free antivirus now out of beta and available to all...
« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2010, 15:31:08 PM »
Especially Norton/Symantec!  Search for 'Norton Removal Tool', which Symantec themselves provide.