Microsoft’s latest addition to its fleet of free applications, Security Essentials, is smaller, fast and efficient, but doesn’t offer the wider range of features that security suites do. The ...

I’ve put the final version of Microsoft Security Essentials through its paces, and have found it a solid, simple-to-use anti-malware tool that takes up little RAM and system resources. Less clear, ...

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Microsoft registered more than 1.5 million downloads of its free antivirus software in the week after it shipped. Microsoft registered more than 1.5 million downloads of its free antivirus software in ...