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Can I use Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) as my primary Antivirus/Antimaliware software?
I have used Norton, and later switched to Avast! Home Edition. Aside from being expensive, I did not like Norton because of it’s poor usage of resource. I like Avast! because it is free and very lightweight. Howver, with the reliease of MSE, I plan to switch to it, mainly because not only, is it is lightweight, but also because it has a very good UI: it is color coded to show the status and a lot of other good stuff. So my question is if I stop using Avast! and use MSE, am I any less protected? Thanks for your response! 
I know for a fact that MSE is REAL TIME anti virus. It will check for websites that has viruses, and block them if necessary. MSE will allow scan sceduals and manual scans as well. But I want to know how EFFECTIVE it is compaired to Avast!
You would be better off just uninstalling avast. You can turn off the anti-virus part of avast but that does not turn everything off. You will still have some security processes running.
Remove it completely.
Microsoft Security Essentials is the name of Microsoft’s latest Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware software for Windows operating system. It is already being tested internally at Microsoft and is rumored to launch in September of this year. We were lucky to gets hands on the pre-beta build version of Security Essentials. I tested it on Windows Vista and was quite impressed with it. Below is the complete review along with some interesting findings.
it’s ease-of-use and small memory footprint. The overall size of the software installer is only 4.8MB and takes around 6.6MB + 36MB(runs two different processes) when running on my system. Which is quite impressive
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Microsoft Security Essentials – Free Anti Virus
