Microsoft's Free Antivirus No Longer Available
Microsoft's Free Antivirus No Longer Available
Posted 06/25/2009 at 2:54pm
| by Andy Salisbury
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After a brief moment of availability this week, Microsoft’s free Security Essentials application has been pulled from the virtual shelves.
Microsoft claims that it now has enough users for the beta, stating on their website, “Thank you for your interest in joining the Microsoft Security Essentials Beta. We are not accepting additional participants at this time. Please check back at later a date for possible additional availability.”
So, if you were hoping to get in but weren’t among the fleets of people that did so yesterday, you’re out of luck! You’ll just have to wait for the full version, like everyone else (that is, unless you got actually in).
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Lodis4
August 24, 2009 at 9:05am
But it will have a new name and a subscription fee for updates attached to it. Be afraid, be vary afraid...
Peanut Fox
June 25, 2009 at 9:41pm
If this works out well for them they could carve out a new market. It's more likely people would buy into a subscription based anti virus software from Microsoft over some of the alternatives.
winmaster
June 25, 2009 at 6:49pm
Did Maximum PC get a copy of the .exe file. I'd like to know what you think of Microsoft's latest attempt at antivirus. This should be good.
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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
marcusj.borg
August 23, 2009 at 10:27pm
users on every operating system, must always be aware of security
issues. They must act intelligently to keep their systems safe and
secure........
shutout5591
June 25, 2009 at 4:18pm
A quick google search revealed:
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Microsoft-Security-Essentials-Download-131683.html
Good thing the interweb has backup tubes
mls067
June 26, 2009 at 9:47am
Thanks for that link, it still works. I added this beta to my dashboard at the connect site and even recieved my email welcoming me to the beta test. I didn't download it right away because I thought I was safe for a little bit. I now get the same message everyone else gets when they go there. Weird
Jesterace
June 25, 2009 at 3:44pm
Glad I downloaded it when I did, I put it on my desktop and it works wonderful on my Toshiba NB100 netbook :)
binkievanes
June 25, 2009 at 3:28pm
Binkie van Es , netherlands antilles
I obtained a copy through torrents and it works wonderfull, already caught two serious trojans and barely uses resources
great program
dreamsburnred
June 25, 2009 at 5:16pm
Its also caught 2 fake antivirus's trying to hijack there way in...seems good for free :).
DBR
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