JMH

Senior Member
Joined
Sep 21, 2010
Messages
361
Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 is far from the top spot in a latest round of antivirus testing performed by AV-Test, but the free security solution for Windows faired rather well, even on par with paid products.
According to statistics shared by AV-Test, MSE 2.0 scored a total of 12 points, 2.5 for Protection, 4.5 for Repair and 5.0 for Usability, out of a maximum of 6 for each category.
Security solutions need to reach at least 11 in order to be AV-Test certified, and some of them managed to fail the benchmark altogether. Windows XP SP3 was the platform used for the tests.

Link Removed - Invalid URL
 

patcooke

Microsoft MVP
Microsoft MVP
Joined
May 16, 2010
Messages
5,703
MSSE does the business for me.
 

nmsuk

Essential Member
Joined
Sep 7, 2009
Messages
4,329
Comodo for me, each to their own though.
 

Super Sarge

New Member
Joined
Jun 4, 2009
Messages
1,734
Mse for me on main machine, laptop has Kaspersky, but license runs out next month it will than have MSE and Avria on an other machine