Microsoft Security Essentials 4.0.1526.0

Microsoft Security Essentials - No cost, no hassle security software for your PC.

Microsoft Security Essentials is a free security solution developed by Microsoft to ensure basic and trustworthy protection against all kinds of threats while integrating perfectly into Windows-based systems.

Microsoft Security Essentials offers everything a PC user needs to benefit from a secure computing environment: real-time protection, scanner, threat removal, network traffic monitoring and many other functions. The antivirus is frequently updated, easy to install and runs quietly in the background allowing you to perform your activities uninterrupted.

Features:

- Real-time protection module alerts the user immediately, any time a suspicious file attempts to install, run or open.
- Scanning functions provide the most efficient way of checking the entire content of your PC of threats. You can choose between the Quick Scan and verify just the vulnerable areas of your system, the Full Scan to check all your files and folders and the Custom Scan that you can configure to scan only specific areas.
- You can customize Microsoft Security Essentials to automatically remove threats or notify you about them and let you decide the course of action.
- Works in conjunction with the Windows firewall.
- Microsoft Security Essentials is able to detect new or unknown threats through its Live System Behavioral Monitoring.
- Almost real-time automatic update check through the Dynamic Signature Service.
- Powerful anti-rootkit technologies such as anti-stealth functionality live kernel behavior monitoring and optimized live rootkit removal.
- The network that your PC is connected to will have its traffic monitored through the Network Inspection System that will block traffic with an identified exploit attempt (Windows Filtering Platform contained by Windows Vista and 7 is required).

Microsoft Security Essentials 4.0.1526.0 is licensed as Freeware for the Windows operating system / platform. Microsoft Security Essentials is provided as a free download for all software users (Freeware).