microsoft security essentials

Make sure your system is up to date and has the latest protections in place.

AVG anti-virus: 11/08/09
Avast: 11/07/09
Norton anti-virus: 11/04/09
McAfee anti-virus: 11/04/09
Lavasoft Ad-Aware: 11/06/09
Spybot Search and Destroy: 11/04/09
Microsoft Security Essentials: 11/04/09*
Nod32: 11/06/09

Updates as of November 8, 2009 6:00am CDT.
*last update - the system would not update today.

Make sure your system is up to date and has the latest protections in place.

AVG anti-virus: 10/18/09
Avast: 10/17/09
Norton anti-virus: 10/14/09
McAfee anti-virus: 10/14/09
Lavasoft Ad-Aware: 10/16/09
Spybot Search and Destroy: 10/14/09
Microsoft Security Essentials: 10/17/09
Nod32: 10/16/09

Updates as of October 18, 2009 6:00am CDT.

Make sure your system is up to date and has the latest protections in place.

AVG anti-virus: 10/04/09
Avast: 10/03/09
Norton anti-virus: 09/30/09
McAfee anti-virus: 09/30/09
Lavasoft Ad-Aware: 10/02/09
Spybot Search and Destroy: 09/30/09
Microsoft Security Essentials: 09/30/09
Nod32: 10/01/09

Updates as of October 4, 2009 6:00am CDT.

Symantec is saying that Microsoft Security Essentials is not enough to protect users from the threats posed by the Internet. According to the folks at Symantec and AVG, we users need a whole lot more in order to be protected. They have stated the following:
“Early reviews of the beta are showing that it under-performs when [...]

My MVP lead sent me an email this morning saying that MSE was available for download. Since I am running the 64 bit Windows 7 RC on my test system, I downloaded MSE to try it. MSE comes in both 32 bit and 64 bit for Vista and Windows 7, plus there was a version [...]