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    MS Security Essentials

    Good program? Bad? Your take on it please.

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    Love it, integrates into Windows well, no nagging screens, updates via windows update, free, fast scanning.

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    Run it on quite a few personal machines i look after, free, quick, unobtrusive, detects a virus and appears to remove it quite adequately, doesn't recommend you upgrade to a paid for version every 2 seconds, doesn't appear to affect the speed of the machine (unlike a lot of av software) Pretty happy with it

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    Very good, I like it a lot and use it on all of my Windows machines now.

    However, and I hate to open up a can of worms again, but isn't it not allowed on school machines? Or have I remembered the conclusion of a previous post incorrectly.

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    Great and lightweight. Stops things that Sophos has missed and only used 3.5MB vs 85MB using Sophos!

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    Good program for home use. Definitely not allowed on school machines. Fact.

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    Good one, i love it coz of light weight and speed. running on my windows 7

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    I'd recommend it to anyone!

    Far better than anything else, especially on old XP machines (except for those with less than 256Mb of RAM!

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