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On 7 January 2010, Microsoft Security Essentials won the Best Free Software award from PC Advisor. [57] In December the same year, it secured the Bronze award from AV-Comparatives for proactive detection of 55 percent of new or unknown malware, the Silver award for low false-positives (six occurrences) and the Bronze award for overall performance.
Alureon is known to have been bundled with the rogue security software, "Security Essentials 2010". [2] When the dropper is executed, it first hijacks the print spooler service (spoolsv.exe) to update the master boot record and execute a modified bootstrap routine.
A rewrite of Microsoft's web browser, based on the Chromium project. [97] Barcelona — Windows Defender Application Guard A security feature for running the Microsoft Edge web browser inside a virtual machine, thus isolating it from the rest of the system in the event that it was hacked. [98] Beihai Paint 3D: 3D version of Microsoft Paint [99]
On November 18, 2008, Microsoft announced the discontinuation of Windows Live OneCare, offering users a new free anti-malware suite Microsoft Security Essentials, which had been available since the second half of 2009. [2]
Microsoft Security Essentials detected 89 percent of the rootkit samples. That's good, but more than half of the recent antivirus products detected 100 percent. Microsoft Security Essentials' scores in my malware removal tests were barely average. Many other products, including free products, have shown much greater success.
Upon installation, Microsoft Security Essentials disabled and replaced Windows Defender. [41] [42] In Windows 8, Microsoft upgraded Windows Defender into an antivirus program very similar to Microsoft Security Essentials for Windows 7, [4] and it also uses the same anti-malware engine and virus definitions from MSE.
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