Microsoft Security Essentials 4.0 – AV industry is dead

There has been quite a bit written by security researchers and media about Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) over the past few years. Some complimentary and others not so. My personal opinion has always been that MSE is actually quite a good product, especially given it has always been 100% free. If you are wondering whether to download and install MSE, read on. Microsoft has in the past few days updated MSE under the hood with major improvements to automatic remediation for quarantining malicious files (including lowering the false point count) and scanning performance (improved load balancing so your PC doesn’t slow down) and malware detection. Read more...