Microsoft Security Essentials Upgrade

I’ve been using Avast for my anti-virus program for the past few years on the various notebooks and desktops that I use. When I bought the Latitude D620, I decided to load it up with Microsoft Security Essentials, the free successor to Windows OneCare. OneCare never had a good reputation and you actually had to pay for it.

I’ve been using it for a few weeks now and it’s really performed well, working in the background, and updating itself effortlessly. It even fired off a couple of warnings on a couple of admin tools I had on a USB stick when I plugged it on.

So today, I get a pop up telling me to upgrade. These days, I’m a lot more suspicious and decided to check the Microsoft forums to see if there was talk of an upgrade, and there was.

Also, when I brought the program up, there were notifications (see the picture) to upgrade. After upgrading, I had to go through the usual restart. Over all, the process was painless and shouldn’t cause even the least experienced user any problems.

At this point, I have to say that Microsoft has done something right, and after some more testing, I may deploy this to some of my other computers.