Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0.2140.0

Protect your PC with the official Antivirus by Microsoft

Protect your PC against viruses with the free Microsoft Antivirus. Yes, you have read it well, Microsoft, the creator of Windows and Office, has decided to offer its own antivirus program for free in order to help you protect your system against virus, Trojans and any other malicious software.

The name of this antivirus is Microsoft Security Essentials, and it's thought to offer a confident protection even to novice PC users.

If you want to now if your computer is properly protected you only have to look at the colour of the antivirus icon. If it's green, you are safe.

The program is divided into several sections. analysis, update, history and configuration. Novice users can do well using the first two ones where they'll receive help by a wizard.

The history offers us a report of the suspicious elements found during the analysis. You'll see detected elements as well as those that has been sent to quarantine and the rest of elements.

The settings section allows us to program scanning, automatize tasks, modify real time protection settings, add files and folders to the exclusion list and edit some advanced options of the antivirus.

By this way, Microsoft Security Essentials becomes a good choice if you are searching for a free, light and reliable antivirus program.

Note:
For Windows XP.

Notes:
This is the XP Version, you can download the Windows Vista version here