With Microsoft Security Essentials being available for download since a couple of days ago, a lot of people have been downloading the free antimalware solution from Microsoft. Time has yet to tell about exactly how good or bad it is, but there are some things we can figure out by now. Here are our first impressions of the Microsoft Security Sollutions:
First of all, the graphical interface is not that bad and you will enjoy how you can easily get the job done with average knowledge in the area. It is not the best UI we have seen, but at least you don’t need to be an expert in the field to be able to use MSE. In addition, we also appreciate the fact that the standard settings get the job done perfectly. One option we recommend you teak with tends to the intervals you want Microsoft Security Essentials to scan your computer for malware at. You can also select what files, directories or file types you want to be excluded from the scan.
One thing we did not like is that, once a threat has been detected, the software allows you to delete or move the threat to quarantine. No other option, which is pretty limited. We also observed more limits when we tweaked with the monitoring options.
Microsoft Security Essentials will not take up too much memory, but it takes its share: on some netbooks, you might experience a slight lag when MSE is running at full speed during a scan or something like that.
The difference between what Microsoft Security Essential has to offer and the complexity of some commercial anti malware solutions you can buy is really big and if you want to optimize and personalize your antimalware software, you should reach in your pocket and pay for top notch security. So far, it seems that Microsoft Security Essentials doesn’t do a bad job, but we recommend that you use it as a secondary or intermediary antimalware software.
