Questions tagged [ms-security-essentials]
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.
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Getting Microsoft Security Essentials to alert me when a threat has been found
Is there a way of getting Microsoft Security Essentials to alert me when a threat has been found?
I recently went through the log tab of Windows Defender and found a number of threats in the ...
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Editing the Microsoft Security Essentials context-menu
As all MSE users would know, the context-menu item that it adds to Explorer is really long, with one whole sentence "Scan with Microsoft Security Essentials...". Is there a way to edit this and ...
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How does the performance of Microsoft Security Essentials compare with other Anti-virus products [closed]
Are there any solid data (i.e. benchmarks) comparing the performance of Windows Security Essentials with other anti-virus products?
In particular, I'm interested in how much overhead it imposes on a ...
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In Microsoft Security Essentials how do you see the location of the detected threat?
MSE pops up saying the detected item, alert level, status and recommended action but doesn't say where the detected item is located. How do you find out? For example if it's in something I just ...
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How do I install Windows Defender/MSE on Server 2012?
On earlier versions of Windows client and server you could install Microsoft Security Essentials, free antivirus from Microsoft. In Windows 8 client, it is integrated into Windows Defender. However, I ...
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Windows 7 Can't uninstall Microsoft Security Essentials
to describe the problem as simple as possible, the company edition of Microsoft's Security Essentials called "System Center Endpoint Protection" is installed on my private computer and despite me ...
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In Security Essentials, how do I enable scanning of files previously restored from quarantine?
I had infected .htm files on a web server. I wanted to see the text of one of the files, so I could see the malicious code myself. However, whenever I would download one of the .htm files to my ...
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Microsoft Security Essentials Not Monitoring
When I boot into Windows Vista, Microsoft Security Essentials is set to run when the system starts. When I open the program, it says Microsoft Security Essentials isn't monitoring your computer ...
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How to keep Windows 7 from sleeping while scanning the PC
So, I've been using Microsoft Security Essentials lately. And it usually takes a couple hours or more for it to full scan my hard drive. Because of that, I commonly leave it scanning while I go do ...
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How did my computer get compromised?
How is it possible that my up to date install of Windows 7 with UAC enabled and Microsoft Security Essentials running became compromised, seemingly in a website drive-by?
I've run ostensibly the same ...
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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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Twin problems with Chrome and Microsoft Security Essentials
Woke up today and am getting this error from gmail:
The webpage at
https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&rm=false&continue=https://mail.google.com/mail/u/...
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Security Essentials scheduled scan less often than weekly
Is it possible to schedule Microsoft Security Essentials to do a scan less often than once per week?
This is not officially supported through the UI (it only offers day of the week selection), but is ...
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Why does Microsoft Security Centre show Virus Protection Disabled? Is it Important?
Microsoft security Essentials says my realtime virus protection is working, but the Microsoft security alerts says my virus protection is off.
Which is correct and why do they contradict each other?
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Microsoft Security Essentials: How to Disable the 'Real Time Protection Is Off' Warning?
I decided to disable the "real time protection feature" of MSE. Now I have this little annoying "feature", that MSE keeps me informed that I have disabled "real time protection":
the little red ...
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Why does context menu sporadically open behind taskbar?
Sometimes when I'm using Windows, it will go weird—when I try to change window using the taskbar it won't work but the taskbar will flash yellow. Windows will stay weird until I restart (or log off).
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Microsoft Security Essentials is not genuine now
I installed MSE on several machines months ago, and these are legit systems with legit keys. However, as of today MSE is complaining.
Windows did not pass genuine validation. Security Essentials ...
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Security Essentials (SE) hangs while scanning ProgramData folder
First I did a complete scan on C:\ and kept getting (after about 1.5M files scanned, which is at the end of the C:\ProgramData folder or the beginning of the C:\Recovery folder)
Then, after scanning ...
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Windows Defender vs. Security Essentials in Windows 8
What is the difference between Windows Defender on Windows 8 and Microsoft Security Essentials? They practically look alike, so is there a need to install Security Essentials?
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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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How long should I wait for a virus to be removed before attempting to shut the process down and try again? [closed]
After a 7 hour scan of over 200GB of backed up information on my external hard drive MSE found a single virus Win32/cmdow.A within a rar installer of an open source expansion of a game .. and it has ...
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Is it possible that update of (MS) security essentials is blocking ports while updating?
Seem to have encountered an issue that I can't really resolve.
I have a client trying to write to a stream on port 4530.
This is a system running constantly, and when I got back to work monday ...
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How keep MSE from causing automatic backups to fail?
I have Windows 7's Backup configured to run every day at midnight. When it runs per this schedule, no UI pops up. It just runs.
I'm also using Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE). From time to ...
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Windows Security-Center service always disabled and Microsoft Security Essentials won't start [duplicate]
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How do I get rid of malicious spyware, malware, viruses or rootkits from my PC?
I'm not sure if I'm having some kind of infection on my mother's client.
When I logged in I ...
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Windows Security essentials detected trojan in Hp Factory.wim [duplicate]
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Computer is infected by a virus or a malware, what do I do now?
Security essential detected trojan:wind32/Anomaly.gen!A in containerfile: E:\system.sav\util\HPDactory.wim
file:...
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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 ...
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Security Essentials Update Script
Is there a way to write a batch file to automatically update Microsoft security essentials for Windows 7?
If so, could you please help me write it?
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Why does Microsoft Security Essentials ask for a scan everytime I log on?
I have used MSE for some time now with great success.
All of a sudden, starting 3 months ago or so, MSE calls for a scan every time I log on. It never used to do that and I am wondering why it does ...
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Would Microsoft Security Essentials be adequate protection? [closed]
Is Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) adequate protection for my computer?
What is the experience with this product?
I found out about a comparison of AV Suites. MSE did VERY well.
One that I found ...
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How do I virus scan an individual file under Windows 8? [duplicate]
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How to add the Windows defender into Windows Explorer’s right click menu to scan a particular drive/folder/file on demand?
From what I understand, Windows 8's version of ...
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How do I remove a root kit from Windows XP? [duplicate]
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How do I get rid of malicious spyware, malware, viruses or rootkits from my PC?
I was looking for root kits following these instructions
http://computersight.com/software/how-...
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What anti-virus solution works with Windows Server 8 beta? [closed]
Testing out beta Windows Server 8. Would like to install a free antivirus, but MSE doesn't seem to support it yet and can't find one that does. Know of one?
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Remove the Microsoft Security Essentials icon
I've been using Microsoft Security Essentials on Windows 7 for sometime now and so far I don't have a bad word to say about it.
I would like to permanently remove the MSE icon from the task bar and ...
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How do I set Microsoft Security Essentials to prompt me on what to do when it detects a virus or malware?
How do I set MSE to prompt me on what to do when it detects a virus or malware?
It seems that MSE's real-time protection only allows a default automated option when it detects a virus or malware.
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Security Essentials not installing and I suspect my machine is infected with malware
My mouse seems to be automatically right-clicking every few seconds, and sometimes constantly. My cursor will abruptly become an hourglass for a moment every once in a while, as well. It happens in ...
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How can I remove an allowed program from Microsoft Security Essentials
I was downloading a network packet sniffer when MSE properly warned me about it. I responded to allow the program, since I didn't want it quarantined or deleted.
Now that I'm done with the sniffer ...
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How can I prevent Microsoft Security Essentials from performing its automatic scan after booting system?
I have a Vista SP2 system with MSE installed. Right after booting, MSE automatically does a quick scan which significantly slows down my system until it has finished scanning. I would like for MSE to ...
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Enabling MS Security Essentials blocks port web server
I notice when I enable "real-time production" in MS Security Essentials that my web-service (on port 80) is blocked from outside my machine. I can still access it locally, even with my network IP.
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WAMP loaded (green icon), but keep loading localhost or localhost/phpmyadmin without any success
I do not know if it is a virus/trojan horse, but I am not able to use my WAMP.
I mean, I turn off all other program like skype (I know about the port isssues, but this is not this case I guess), ...
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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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Microsoft Security Essentials: keep download scans but disable local activity scans
In Microsoft Security Essentials, I used to disable "Monitor file and program activity on your computer" but enable "Scan all downloads." Now, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSSE) 4.0 removed the ...
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How to remove FBI Moneypak ransomware? [duplicate]
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Computer is infected by a virus or a malware, what do I do now?
My PC just recently got infected with FBI Moneypak ransomware. I'm using MS Security Essentials but it was not ...
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Can Microsoft Security Essentials Signature Update Notifications be Avoided?
I have my Windows Automatic Updates set to "Notify me but don't automatically download or install them.".
However, if I install Microsoft Security Essentials, can I have the daily virus signatures ...
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Microsoft Security Essentials : Not complete at full scan
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Microsoft Security Essentials(4.0.1526.0)
Window 7 Professional(Service pack 1, 64bit)
When I run in full scan, it will always stop at this file C:\Windows\system32\CodeIntegrity\driver....
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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 ...
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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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Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 uninstalled themselves without me doing anything
I left my Windows 7 x64 PC to do a backup overnight and when I looked at it in the morning, there was a pop-up saying I should go online to find an antivirus and enable windows defender. Turned out ...
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Microsoft Security Essentials: how to disable background scan?
Microsoft recently pushed out an update to Security Essentials via Windows Update. Now when my computer is "idle", MSSE thrashes the hard drive presumably doing a background scan. I don't want this. ...
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Should I install Microsoft Security Essentials on Windows 8 Developer Preview?
Does Windows 8 Developer Preview come pre-installed with anti-virus software?
I'm testing Windows 8 on my laptop and it's running great; I just want to make sure it's secure.
Should I install ...
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Why does MSE take a long time to remove a virus?
Microsoft Security Essentials is fairly fast at scanning for viruses, but it takes a long time to remove a virus. It would be much worse if the virus duplicated itself in many files.
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