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A while back I did a post on Micorsoft entering the Anti-Virus War and butting heads with Symantec and the other main players, by offering there product Microsoft Security Essentials free. Well its out of beta testing and available for download. I am running it on Windows 7 and it seems quite impressive as I had a few captive viruses which I let loose on it and it dealt with them with very little problems. As impressive as it is, even Microsoft only recommend it for Home consumers and not as a Business/Enterprise replacement for your current commercial AV product. Microsoft Security Essentials lacks plug-ins for Exchange and other mail servers so deploying it on such systems would be foolhardy. This of course is a business decision of Microsoft not to include these features as there Forefront product is designed for this purpose. This said I’m positive Home users and maybe Schools will find Microsoft Security Essentials the perfect Anti-Virus package for them.

Download it at : http://www.microsoft.com/Security_essentials/

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