Microsoft Security Essentials

This is the place marker for new Microsoft Security Essentials. Here is the URL for downloading this free Microsoft Anti-Virus Software (you will be prompted to register with Microsoft Connect and need to answer a few questions before downloading the software).

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

Microsoft Anti-Virus Protection Software offerings:

Security Essentials is rather easy to install. Updates and upgrades are supposed to be automatic, so there's no need to worry about having the latest protection.  To check if your computer is protected, the Security Essentials icon is green, your status is good.

Security Essentials runs quietly in the background, only alerting youif there's something you need to do. And it does not use a lot of system resources, so it won't get in the way of your work.

The above alert was generated when the computer is trying to download the Eicar test file from...
http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm