

The best brains and brawn in the background Microsoft Security Essentials offers award-winning protection against these intruders without getting in your way. There are a host of nasty intruders on the Internet including viruses, trojans, worms and spyware. We recommend you move to a Windows 11 PC to continue to receive security updates from Microsoft. Select Finish, and allow Microsoft Security Essentials to perform an initial scan of your computer.Support for Windows 7 ended on January 14, 2020.When the program successfully installs, you should see the message, You have successfully completed the Security Essentials Installation Wizard.Confirm that you don't have any other anti-virus programs installed, then select Install.Check the box for If no firewall is turned on, turn on Windows Firewall and select Next.Select Join the Customer Experience Improvement Program and then Next.Read through the Software License Terms, and select I Accept.Once the installer extracts and runs, select Next.You may get a pop-up box asking you to "allow the following program to make changes to this computer." Select Yes.

Once the download finishes, double-click the file to run the installer.If your computer is running a 32-bit operating system, download the ENUS\x86\MSEInstall.exe option.If your computer is running a 64-bit operating system, download the ENUS\amd64\MSEInstall.exe option.Download Microsoft Security Essentials from the Microsoft site.Once you have determined which operating systems version you have installed, download and install the corresponding version of Microsoft Security Essentials.

