Microsoft Security Essentials is well designed and easy to use. Installation is simple and straightforward, although it will verify whether your copy of Windows is legit along the way.

Microsoft has released its free antivirus software, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE). As the name implies, Microsoft’s new security software removes the bloated bells and whistles found in ...

Microsoft Security Essentials has one of the simplest and clearest GUIs we've seen for an antimalware solution. This is not something we would call "obtrusive" or "bloated" like many of the ...

AV-Test actually uses Microsoft Security Essentials as the baseline in their scoring system; Security Essentials gets a score of 1.0 and all the others are relative to that.

Microsoft Security Essentials is now available. Formerly codenamed Morro, this replacement for OneCare is free and sounds like it could be a genuine threat to commercial anti-malware.

Microsoft made available to testers this week a new beta build (2.0.522.0) of its next release of Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE), the company's free anti-virus/anti-malware product for Windows.

That could put an extra $50-60 per year (per PC!) in your pocket. If you've tried Microsoft Security Essentials yourself (or don't plan to for some reason), share your thoughts in the comments.

NEWS ANALYSIS: Microsoft Security Essentials provides some handy security tools for both consumers and small companies, even though Microsoft created the free Windows security software for home ...

The open beta for Microsoft's Security Essentials came and went like a thief in the night. Which is too bad, because it's hard to find an article that didn't like the program; every review I've ...

Microsoft's latest anti-malware application uses the same engine as OneCare, but is smaller, faster and more efficient than its predecessor The just-released beta of Microsoft Security Essentials ...

The bottom line: Microsoft Security Essentials has me protected. I look forward to version 2.0 going live and the small-business offering being made public in the very near future (as sources have ...

Microsoft's free Security Essentials package rates well at removing malware and running light , but what about dealing with brand-new, unidentified b ...