Questions tagged [ms-security-essentials]
Microsoft Security Essentials is Microsoft's free anti-virus offering.It runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, but not on Windows 8, which has a built-in AV component.
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How can I edit the Users Privileges with Local Security Policy in Windows Server 2016?
I am creating a pentest scenario and I want that a user has the SeImpersonatePrivilege.
So, I install the Windows Server 2016 in a virtual machine. Then, I created the Administrator user and a common ...
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Is it possible to obtain the path of a blocked threat in Windows Defender?
Windows Defender notified about a threat that has been blocked, and it provides the type of "threat", but it won't show any information regarding the file, even if I allow the threat.
I have ...
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Microsoft Security Essentials Definitions not Updating neither Manually nor Automatically
I learnt last year that Microsoft will be discontinuing support for windows 7 soon, and also from (I think) November that definitions will be having the SHA3 signing for security purposes and as a ...
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Making MsMpEng.exe disk access be nice
MsMpEng.exe disk accesses are making my system unusable. Since this process is critical for system security, it is unreasonable to disable it. Moreover, as it is provided by the OS vendor, and ...
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System Error 5 even as Administrator
I'm having some problems** with Microsoft Security Essentials on my Windows 7 machine. I'm therefore following the guide on this page to uninstall it.
I get to the second heading under Step 2 ("Stop ...
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Microsoft Security Essentials - Log indicates it keeps crashing
I started up my PC/Windows 7 64-bit tonight and since then Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) seems to keep crashing. I uninstalled MSE then re-installed it, but still the same issue. Each time MSE ...
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Non-free MalwareBytes & SpybotS&D vs. Microsoft Security Essentials
After years of benefiting from the free versions of MalwareBytes and SpyBot S&D, it's time I contributed a paltry sum to them by buying their home versions (and it is home where I use them). ...
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Is Microsoft Security Essentials virus scan smart enough to scan different files when stopped and restarted?
If Microsoft Security Essentials is in the middle of a virus scan, and the user stops it, and later Microsoft Security Essentials starts another virus scan, will it scan the files in the same order as ...
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How to install Windows Defender on slipstreamed Windows 10?
Some guys did an excellent job at slipstreaming an .iso file of Windows 10
See download link on MajorGeeks:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/windows_10_bloatware_free_edition.html
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How to patch a Windows 7 machine to fix recent Security Essentials exploit? [duplicate]
I have a Windows 7 machine, and I have it set to only manually allow updates from Windows update
There is this exploit that needs to be patched.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/...
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weekly burst of smbd process_usershare_file errors: from where?
For the past few weeks, every Monday morning between about 6:30 and 7:45, in a burst lasting less than a second, my Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS fileserver logs a spate of errors from smbd.
../source3/param/...
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Stop Microsoft Security Essentials from continually asking to send a file
I use the cool Console Emulator project https://conemu.github.io/ to do console work on Windows when I'm developing. Over the past week, Security Essentials has asked several times a day if it can ...
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Security Essentials: restore a quarantined file to a different location?
I have a file that Security Essentials quarantined "on sight" that I want to restore to perform some further analysis on.
However, the file was stored on my NAS server. This means I had accessed the ...
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Will the mandatory update policy in windows 10 bring security issues?
Disclaimer: This question originated the following one: Can the mandatory update policy in windows 10 generate momentum/oportunity risk?; With the purpose to divide one broad question in two specific ...
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Windows Defender: Disable real time; keep scheduled and on demand scanning
I just upgraded to Win 10 (RTM build). I have disabled the built in AV's (Defender) real time protection because I do not run it, never did and have never gotten a virus (and I've had a computer for ...
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