Download Microsoft Security Essentials

The new Microsoft Security Essentials software is going to launch today, supporting 8 languages and being released in 19 countries (at the moment, the link still says "beta", but this will switch over in a few hours). This should provide free anti-malware cover to users and is perhaps worth considering for Windows 7.

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

Its great! I just installed it. Most probably it will be my main AV for quite some time.

For information. If you are already a Beta (Live) user, it will arrive via normal updates. Got mine yesterday.

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For new users. Remember to get into the notifciations cutomisation panel and ensure you have "Show icnd and notifications" turned on. This will make certain that you can monitor the anti virus program. It will normally be green but turns to red if it needs attention.

What do you think of it so far Dave, are you impressed with it? I wasn't able to try the Beta as it was unavailable to download for UK users.

Very impressed, Ian. At the time of first install, I had Avast Free running, and did a subsequent install and run with AVGFree. MSE picked up a couple of trojans which had been overlooked.
It is totally unobtrusive. A 3 or 4 mb definition update comes on a daily basis and takes seconds to install. I have not noticed any significant use of extra resources.
Like defrag, the first full run (160Gb hard disk) takes a heck of a time. 1.45 hours in my case. After that you can just schedule it to "keep watch" and run a full scan when your fancy takes you.

So can you install it with another AV still on (in my cast Avast) without any clashes? I would like to give it a go, but I want another 3rd party AV just as a saftey net, if you understand.

I installed this and had Avast running at the same time with no conflicts.

I'm running AVG antivirus 8.5{not free edition} and this MSE at the same time either,without any problem but in the security control panel says if you run 2 or more antivirus at the same time,can slowdown a bit the sistem,but my sistem is running in normal speed like before thus,but i think,running 2 AV at the same time on the sistem is not so good{this is my opinion}.

running avg as well no conflicts as yet

I'll take the risk and download it. I'll report back with my findings!