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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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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Does Microsoft Security Essentials replace Windows Defender?
Does Microsoft Security Essentials replace Windows Defender?
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Disable the Security Essentials End-of-Life Warning on Windows XP
Is it possible to disable the "Support for this operating system is ending" warning that the current version of Microsoft Security Essentials displays on Windows XP?
Based on a quick couple of ...
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Is there a way to disable MsMpEng.exe from monitoring file access during parallel computing operations? [duplicate]
I am using Windows 7 and have a 4-core Intel CPU, and was recently running a 4-kernel parallel computation written in Wolfram Mathematica that accesses a directory on an external hard drive containing ...
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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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Google Chrome detected as PWS:Win32/Zbot by MSE
Microsoft Security Essentials detected Google Chrome as a Password Stealer:
PWS:Win32/Zbot
Category: Password Stealer
Description: This program is dangerous and captures user passwords.
Recommended ...
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Difference between Malicious Software Removal Tool, WinDefender, Security Essentials?
What is the difference between these three products?
Malicious Software Removal Tool
Windows Defender
Microsoft Security Essentials
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How to disable/enable Microsoft Security Essentials from the command line?
I would like to know how to disable and enable Microsoft Security Essentials from the command line.
This is a common procedure on build machines in order to speed-up the build process.
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Windows Defender: Disable real time; keep scheduled and on demand scanning
I just upgraded to Win 10 (RTM build). I have disabled the built in AV's (Defender) real time protection because I do not run it, never did and have never gotten a virus (and I've had a computer for ...
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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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Microsoft Security Essentials & MsMpEng.exe hogging resources
I've been using MSE for a couple months now, never had a single problem. All of a sudden the process "MsMpEng.exe" will randomly go crazy and hog all my system resources so I can't do anything unless ...
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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 to get Microsoft Security Essentials to work through a proxy?
It only seems to work for me with a direct connect.
And i cant find anywhere to set a proxy.
Windows 7 64bit.
As for why... we are in development network that is isolated from the organizations ...
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Disable MsMpSvc from command line
Quite simply I'm looking for a way to disable Microsoft's security essentials service from the command line, you used to be able to run the command (as admin)
net stop MsMpSvc
but that was somehow ...
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Security threat caused by Dropbox?
Recently I received a security threat alert triggered by Dropbox, as seen in the screenshot below:
What happened here? Or this is a false alert from Microsoft Security Essentials?
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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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Microsoft Security Essentials does not turn on at startup
Of late, MSE has stopped starting the real time protection on its own. I see the red icon in the tray.
I tried to start the real time protection myself but I get an error code: 0x800705b4.
I had a ...
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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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Security Essentials: restore a quarantined file to a different location?
I have a file that Security Essentials quarantined "on sight" that I want to restore to perform some further analysis on.
However, the file was stored on my NAS server. This means I had accessed the ...
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How do I allow programs that generate "high" or "severe" alerts in MS Security Essentials?
Microsoft Security Essentials seems to allow only quarantine or delete actions for program that it deems to have "high" or "severe" risk.
However, it also assigns these levels to what it considers to ...
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Is there a way to disable the tray icon for Microsoft Security Essentials?
It's running in the background, and seems to be working fine, but is there a way to disable its system tray icon so I don't have to see it down there unless it's detecting something going awry?
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Does Microsoft Security Essentials work with any browser?
Will the The Microsoft Security Essentials work with Firefox? (I only use IE for WinXP updates.)
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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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Multiple Antivirus Software
I installed Microsoft Security Essentials on my newly rebuilt laptop.
When I was installing Adobe Acrobat Reader, it also installed McAfee Security Scan Plus - I did not see the option of not ...
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MSE updating fails, no warning or error message
I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate, 32-bit.
For the last couple of days, MSE doesn't fails to update, remaining stuck at version 1.75.119
I presume that an error log is created somewhere, or an event ...
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View Microsoft Security Essentials Logs
I have Windows 7 with Security Essentials as anti-virus program.
Recently I plugged in a flash drive and SE quarantined some important files.
I tried Restore option, but failed with some error.
Now ...
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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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Windows 7 hangs with 100% disk activity but only when online
I have the same problem as seemingly many other people here, and I think we might all be experiencing the same issue: a compatibility issue in Windows 7 between hard drive and network controller or ...
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Is there any way for all detected malware of type "HackTool" to be automatically allowed in Microsoft Security Essentials?
I research this sort of thing and don't really want it to be quarantining the hacking tools as malware, because they aren't really.
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Microsoft Security Essentials for a business
This is 2 questions really -
Am I allowed to install Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0 in a business of 200 - 300 users?
Is Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0 adequate protection (real-time scanning, ...
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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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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 Security Essentials work with Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2?
Does Microsoft Security Essentials work with Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2?
I currently have AVG Business Edition, but it's close to expiring. I don't want to pay $189 a year, but I also don't want to ...
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Microsoft Security Essentials howto auto download definition updates
I use Microsoft Security Essentials as my antivirus on my Win7 box. New virus definitions to Security Essentials are installed using Windows Update. However, the updates are marked as optional by ...
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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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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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microsoft security layer
I have been informed by iYogi (Dell "support" in India) that the "microsoft security layer" has expired on my Windows Vista Home Premium which was installed in Jan 2008 when I bought my Inspiron 1420 ...
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Will Microsoft Security Essentials x64 catch x86 viruses and malwares
I have windows 7 ultimate 64 bit installed on my PC and i have been using Security Essentials for a while. it worked very good for me.
but i noticed that some times when i connect my flash to my some ...
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Microsoft Security Essentials: Does it scan emails?
I recently decided to see what life is like without Kaspersky Internet Security and have installed MSE. I'm concerned about receiving malware via SPAM etc. Does MSE scan emails and/or attachments? Is ...
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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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For older computers what is the least real-time protection settings for Microsoft Security Essentials? [closed]
If I check all the following boxes in an old computer or one with minimal memory, the computer becomes slow or unresponsive while doing basic tasks such as playing music, opening documents and ...
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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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After scheduled Microsoft Security Essentials scan finishes, whole system is slow
I have scheduled Microsoft Security Essentials (on Windows 7) to scan my whole hard drive every night at 2 a.m. When I start using my computer in the morning, the scan is complete, but the whole ...
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Security Essentials tray icon disapeared?
I've been running Microsoft Security Essentials for quite a while. And I've just noticed that the tray icon has disapeared. I've checked every setting in the program, Windows Action Center claims that ...
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How to grant executables permission to run without causing Microsoft Security Essentials to melt down?
Practically every time I run MinGW gcc, my anti-virus program (MS security essentials, specifically msmpeng.exe) goes berserk, and steals 100% of the CPU for several seconds. This is maddening when I'...
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Manually uninstall Microsoft Security Essentials (error 8007066F when uninstalling)
When trying to uninstall Microsoft Security Essentials on Windows Vista x86 via Programs and Features, I got an error message, code 8007066F, with no description. How can I remove Security Essentials?
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System Error 5 even as Administrator
I'm having some problems** with Microsoft Security Essentials on my Windows 7 machine. I'm therefore following the guide on this page to uninstall it.
I get to the second heading under Step 2 ("Stop ...
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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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Anti-virus for windows 7 home premium
I have a new laptop with Win 7 Home Premium. this machine came with already installed "MS Security Essentials" anti virus.
I've installed on the laptop another protection "Symantec Endpoint Protection"...
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Are all of these antivirus programs really needed?
My English classroom has a lot of computers, all of which are very slow due to not being maintained and old, outdated software... or even software that is redundant. One of the computers has three ...