Security Essentials

Hello! Recently (just last 24 hours) I started to have this unusual problem with Security Essentials. Firstly, i paid attention that before booting to welcome screen Windows wants to run checkdisk but fails due to an unspecified error. Secondly my Security Essentials is turned off - I can't...

I've been using free AVG on my old rig for a few reasons. 1. It is free 2. Norton always bogged down my system real bad. 3. McAfee always let viruses through (System scans would find them). 4. Never tried Microsoft Security Essentials (Always hesitant to change from something I've never had...

I have tried scanning my PC many times and still cant solve whats wrong with my windows defender program. If i try starting it i get an error " An error has occured in the program during initilization. If this problem continues, please contact your system administrator. Error code: 0x80073b01"...

Which is best antivirus for windows 8.1? Microsoft Security essentials or Windows Defender?

Hey all so I noticed the other day that when I went to Amazon it was immediately asking for me to log in. Then it was asking for my address and credit card info. I thought this was strange so I didn't proceed. I then tried to open it in Firefox and IE (Chrome is my main browser). The same thing...

I just built my first PC, installed Windows 7 and was just curious what protection should I have installed on my machine? What is the best Anti-Virus, Anti-Malware, Anti Spyware combo? I'm currently using Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Premium & Microsoft Security Essentials. I'd like good protection...

I got a Trojan or something because Microsoft Security Essentials was sounding alarm bells and a scan with Anti-Malware was bringing up stuff too. After some guaranteeing and rebooting I thought I had gotten rid of the problem. But later when I started Firefox all my addons were missing, which...

Microsoft Security Essentials could not delete this virus. What should I do?

Greetings! I'm on Windows 8.1 and surf using Firefox with Adblock Plus, I NEVER click on random links, nor do i visit untrusted websites. Would Windows defender/firewall be enough protection for someone like me?

I'm running a 64bit version of Windows 7 on a computer that's a few years old. I recently installed malwarebytes, and found a few trojans and a good bit of adware. Aside from that, my computer is very clean. I quarantined the viruses, but just now my computer has been acting absurdly laggy...

So today I noticed my SLI wasn't enabled, but when I went to enable it, it told me I needed to close Chrome.exe. My task manager says no instance of chrome is running, and I can't uninstall chrome because it says it is running. I ran a scan with Microsoft Security Essentials and it said it...

How do i change which antivirus is used to scan a file when you right click? It said scan with microsoft security essentials, i no longer needed security essentials so i uninstalled it, now there is no option to scan a file what so ever. I'm using Malwarebytes and emsisoft.

Hello. I've just installed Baidu Antivirus but it didn't automatically disable my installed antivirus which is Microsoft Security Essentials. So my question is should I be Disabling SE or no, both of them can get along together just fine? Thanks.

Hi there, I have both Microsoft Security essentials and McAffee Antivirus for the past couple of years with no issues. Couple of weeks ago Security essentials started finding Alureon.J and keeps quarantining it at login and atleast once in an hour. Now for the past 1 week, it detects it every...

I have a Toshiba Satellite PSLE8U-02P01D running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. It is running slow, and when I try to install Microsoft Security Essentials or AVG it will not let me. I already have Avast, Malwarebytes installed, but when I try to scan with Avast in Safe Mode after about 10-15...

when i try to download avast free antivirus or microsoft security essentials i get a message telling me 64bit is not able to install any idea;s as to why

Hey guys, Just built a new system and I want to get the best Antivirus for gaming that won't interfere too much. I was almost set on getting BitDefender but I still want to get some more opinions. Should I just get Microsoft Security Essentials? Is Bitdefender a good choice? Any reason I...

My Avira antivirus has picked up nothing ever and neither did microsoft security essentials when i used to use that, which should mean there's nothing getting through as 'real-time protection' is on. However when i ran malwarebytes just now it found 10 malicious objects which my antivirus scan...

These ads for phishing websites keep opening up in chrome whenever My computer is on but idle. Microsoft Security Essentials and Sophos can't find any virus' and Extension Defender for Chrome can't find anything either. Im not sure what it is. I dont think its another internet tab opening things...

hello im using a win 7 home basic sp1 and i was wondering if windows security essentials provide internet security any article regarding what it provides would be great