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Learn more. There are a host of nasty intruders on the Internet including viruses, trojans, worms and spyware. Microsoft Security Essentials offers award-winning protection against these intruders without getting in your way. We have a whole team watching for new threats and coming up with ways to squash them. Easy to get, easy to use.

Once you have installed it, the software updates automatically once a day. Microsoft Security Essentials uses green, yellow and red color codes to designate the security status of your PC and a color-coded icon in the taskbar tells you at a glance if your attention is needed.

Microsoft Security Essentials runs quietly in the background. Microsoft Security Essentials is efficient and compact. All this makes Microsoft Security Essentials friendly for all sorts of computers—your old PC, your new PC, your laptop, as well as your little netbook.

Here are some ways Microsoft Security Essentials helps keep your PCs safe without getting in your way or making you worry. Real-time protection means addressing potential threats before they become problems.

Alerts notify you when spyware, viruses, or other malicious software attempt to run or install on your PC, and suspicious files and programs are prevented from opening. Microsoft Security Essentials offers complete system scanning capabilities with both scheduled and on-demand scanning options to provide an extra level of confidence. Scheduled scans are turned on by default and configured to run weekly at 2 a. There are three scanning options:. Quick Scan. Full scan. A full scan checks all files on the PC, the registry, and all currently running programs.

Custom scan. A custom scan allows you to scan only the areas you select. You can choose when you want a scheduled scan to run, view the scan results before cleaning, or run a scan on demand.

If the PC isn't turned on when the scan is scheduled to run, Microsoft Security Essentials will start the scan at the first opportunity once the PC is awake and idle. When Microsoft Security Essentials determines a possible threat on your PC, alerts notify you of the threat.

Threats are categorized as Severe, High, Medium, or Low, and you can choose whether to ignore, quarantine or remove the item from the system. Microsoft Security Essentials blocks less severe threats and moves them to a quarantined queue where you can elect to restore or permanently delete them. This action permanently deletes the item from the system. This action stops Microsoft Security Essentials from detecting the item in future scans by adding it to the Allowed Items list.

You can remove items from the Allowed Items list at any time. Having an active firewall is part of securing your PC. If no firewall protection is present, you'll be given the option to turn on Windows Firewall. Protection needs to be up-to-date to be effective. Dynamic signature is a way to check whether a suspicious program is bad or not.

This gives programs special signatures that are checked against our database of good and bad programs. To find information, definition updates, and analyses of all the latest threats that Microsoft Security Essentials can help protect you against, visit the Microsoft Malware Protection Center.

Rootkits are particularly difficult types of malware to protect against, and Microsoft Security Essentials includes a number of new and improved technologies to address rootkits and other aggressive threats. Microsoft Security Essentials monitors it to see if there are any attacks or harmful modifications.

Rootkits use stealthy methods to hide themselves and Microsoft Security Essentials has the latest anti-stealth technology to uncover them. For example, direct file system parsing helps find and remove malicious programs and drivers that rootkits try to sneak in.

Microsoft Security Essentials helps block bad software. We keep a list of the most popular websites and downloads on the Internet and use it to test our antimalware definitions and updates before they get to you. This helps us make sure that the protection we offer really keeps your PC safe, and not blocked.

Windows Defender for Windows 10, Windows 8. You can't use Microsoft Security Essentials, but you don't need to—Windows Defender is already included and ready to go. It provides real-time protection for your home or small business PCs. Here's what you need to run it:. An Internet connection is required for installation and to download the latest virus and spyware definitions for Microsoft Security Essentials. Learn more about Windows XP end of support.

Windows 7 More Support for Windows 7 ended on January 14, We recommend you move to a Windows 11 PC to continue to receive security updates from Microsoft. There are three scanning options: Quick Scan. Need more help? Join the discussion. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow.

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