Save Your Money by Using Microsoft Security Essentials

Over the past 12 months, this free software - Microsoft Security Essentials - has proven itself as effective as anything you would pay for and now is also available at no charge to small businesses. Microsoft Security Essentials was released one year ago and if you’re among those who continue to make annual payments for commercial antivirus software, it’s time to put that money in your pocket, delete whatever you’re using, and install Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE).

I still hear from some who are reluctant to pull the plug on McAfee or Norton because MSE doesn’t scan e-mail. But it doesn’t have to. Nothing in an e-mail message itself can harm your computer. It’s what might be attached to e-mail that poses a risk and MSE, as with other antivirus software, scans attachments as they are written to disc.

Microsoft Security Essentials protects against viruses, spyware, rootkits, adware, worms, keyloggers and trojans for every version of Windows, and is now in beta for Security Essentials 2.0, which will update the protection engine and increase protection from web-based threats and even include a network intrusion detection system.

Just last week ZDnet.com lauded MSE’s ability to outperform paid antivirus programs:

How effective is free antivirus software? I had a chance to see a real, in-the-wild example just this month, and the results were, to put it mildly, unexpected. The bottom line? Microsoft’s free antivirus solution found and removed a threat that two well-known paid products missed.

One of the primary reasons your computer slows down is because of bloated commercial antivirus software which manages more system processes than it needs to and interferes with your use of your computer. How many times have you seen messages from such software pop up on your screen and distract you, requiring you to take some action to close them?

Microsoft Security Essentials doesn’t do those things. It updates itself automatically – daily – and you never know it. It installs in a fraction of the time of commercial software and doesn’t suck up system resources. And it doesn’t present an interface requiring a computer engineer to understand.

It is free and fully functionable with no upgrades or annual fees. Get Microsoft Security Essentials here