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If you want to find a free utility to protect your computer, maybe you can choose Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE), which provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.
Fortunately, Microsoft Security Essentials runs quietly and efficiently in the background so that you are free to use your Windows-based PC the way you want (without interruptions or long computer wait times). Now I will show you how to use it.
Note: Before your installation make sure there is no other Antivirus or spyware application running on the machine in advance. But you don't need to turn off Windows Defender since MSE has already took care of it for you.
Firstly, you will have to validate your copy of Windows to be able to install and use Security Essentials.
After installation it will update the virus definitions right away. What's more, it will update itself automatically in the background once you installed it.
You will find the computer status turns green after database is updated. At the top there are 4 tabs you can choose to control different functions.
You can see under Settings tab, you can choose what actions it should take with malware (based on its threat level).
Actually Real-time protection is enabled by default, but you can disable it if you want.
Note: The Real-time protection is light on system resources and doesn't slow down other processes at all.
It shows a green icon in the notification area in case let you know your system is protected.
While a manual scan takes place, it will tell you the amount of time it takes and a progress is displayed.
Note: Scan times will vary between systems based on amount of files and hardware performance.
Of course, it works like most other Antivirus apps and lets you scan a single file.
If a threat is detected, a red attention screen pops up in the notification area. Then you can click the "clean computer" button to clean the threat based on your recommended actions or find out more detail about the threat by click the link "Show details".
If you want more details, it also provides a good amount of information on a threat. In the details screen, you can change the recommend action if you want and clean it from there.
During this test, we tried to download an infected file, but MSE stopped it and wouldn't allow the download to continue unless manually selecting to ignore it. Obviously this is so nice that someone doesn't ignore the warnings. Just click out of the screens, and try to download and install the app anyway.
conclusion
It runs quietly without constantly popping up messages and annoying you. Fortunately, it will pop up a message when it matters though. Also if a threat is found, it will pop up a red alert to let you know about the malware and decide what actions to take. In fact, it's pretty nice for us to have a free anti-malware utility that is easy to use and effective.
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