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At one point it looked like Microsoft was going to kill the scammy Windows "security" industry by releasing their own anti-virus. But then they backed-off and n
by guelo 11y ago
At one point it looked like Microsoft was going to kill the scammy Windows "security" industry by releasing their own anti-virus. But then they backed-off and now MSE seems to be purposefully curtailed.
- gvb 11y agoMSE was absorbed into Windows Defender in Windows 8 & 10. I don't recall any publicity from Microsoft telling their users this - I only know because I did google searches on how to install MSE on Win8 which turned up the answer that its already in there, just renamed. In my experience, a lot of people, including IT people who should know, have not gotten the message. There are a lot of people paying a lot of money for crap snake oil when they could have free (arguably better) snake oil. Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Defender https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Defender In Windows 8, functionality has increased to offer antivirus protection as well. Windows Defender in Windows 8 resembles Microsoft Security Essentials and uses the same virus definitions.