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29Sep/090

New Microsoft A/V Out of Beta – Suprisingly great!

For those of you not aware, Microsoft has been quitely testing the successor to their discontinued OneCare AntiVirus product, named Microsoft Security Essentials. Seems that it is out of beta as of today and is available for free download. I've actually been running this as a beta on several of my machines here at the secret bunker, and have been pleasantly surprised on how good a product it is. I'm a big fan of the free Avast! and AVG home products for their small footprint and excellent detection capabilities, but thought I would put SE through it's paces to see how it worked.