Microsoft Security Essentials???

I'm a bit shocked at the accolades I see tossed in the direction of Microsoft Security Essentials.  You see, when I think of Microsoft....I think of Internet Explorer, and how I like most every browser available much better than that one.

I'm not alone.  We are legion.

I've gone back and forth and back and over, over and over again with anti virus software programs.  I've used all the major free ones, and I don't ever really get viruses that a scan won't catch from any of them - but then again, who knows?

When I got my newest used computer......I updated the AVG that was already on it, and maxed out the scan settings for full scan, and low and behold....five viruses were on this thing.  I wasn't expecting ANY - I'd just got the thing from a shop, and it was running great!  I was just being precautionary and paranoid as you are supposed to be with a computer.

All that's beside the point - twice this week I've had someone that I well know to have vastly superior knowledge of how PC's work than I  tell me that Microsoft Security Essentials, in their opinion, was a better program than AVG, Avast, Avira, or ..."insert your free anti virus program here."

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=5201