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Before you rely on Security Essentials to keep you safe, you might want to look at its accuracy record.

By Andy Patrizio
12/17/12

Last week's blog post from Alan Shimel that showed Microsoft's antivirus software, Security Essentials, is the most popular antivirus software product in the world came as no surprise. They give it away for free and push it on you if you go anywhere near Microsoft.com.

The encouraging news in the report is that people aren’t settling for just MSE. They are also picking other products from Kaspersky, McAfee, ESET and AVG. That’s good news because even Microsoft will be the first to say that MSE isn’t meant to be your only line of defense.

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