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Microsoft anti-virus software dawdles over updates

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Posted 26 October 2009 - 09:28 AM

Under certain circumstances, Microsoft's recently launched Security Essentials (MSE) security solution fails to download updates for several days, despite new anti-virus signatures being available on the server. As a result, the software no longer offers adequate protection against new malware. These are the results found in tests run by The H's associates at heise Security for the latest edition of the computer magazine c't.

Read more in http://www.h-online....tes-838203.html?

I am using MSE but not seeing what they saw.  MSE is updated many times a day.

http://msmvps.com/ag...?PostID=1735291

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