Microsoft Security Essentials Update

I think MSE is great, it seems to work as well (along w/ Windows firewall) as any paid antivirus solution I've used.

It has become the new standard for free AV's that I install at home or on friends machines who don't want to pay for their protection. It may not be as good as NOD32 but I think for most intelligent users its excellent.

1.5 mil in first week. 1.1 mil the second week. How is that 'going up'? Do you mean total number of downloads? Unless they invent a negative download, yes the numbers will always go up, it's what totals do.

I'm wondering... when will they finally release this to the whole world? I keep getting this f*** msg when I try to open www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials Not available in your country or region You appear to be in a country or region where Microsoft Security Essentials is not available. Thank you for your interest in Microsoft Security Essentials. And I don't live at some 3rd world country, at least I don't think so.. I'm right here in the heart of Europe. So WTF?

" It may not be as good as NOD32 but I think for most intelligent users its excellent." MSE is better at active detection rates actually, which is where it counts. You want to catch a virus with the active scanner before it gets saved to a drive. "I'm wondering... when will they finally release this to the whole world?" They released it to several countries. These are the officially supported countries and locales in alphabetical order: Australia Austria Belgium - Dutch Belgium - French Brazil Canada - English Canada - French France Germany Great Britian Ireland Italy Japan Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Singapore Spain Switzerland - French Switzerland - German United States If you're in one of those countries and can't download, your ISP may be using an IP address that Microsoft doesn't recognize. Contact Microsoft or your ISP to get that resolved. If you're using any out-of-country proxy service or IP anonymizer, that can also cause issues. Short of those issues to check, you can get the beta from the Microsoft Connect site, or [unofficially] download it from Softpedia (be careful not to click on ads on that site). FYI: the beta will always upgrade to the final release.

Wae - thanks for a recommndation about Softpedia and beta. As for the list of countries, I'm from Croatia, so my country isn't listed. Which is really weird as we're neighbours with Italy and Austria which are on the list. But seeing as others larger countries like Portugal, Hungary, Poland and others aren't listed either, I can't but keep wondering... what does Microsoft think, and when will they give everyone access to software. Since availability is so limited, I'm not surprised by "only" 2 million downloads. Shouldn't this software be aimed at "poorer" countries, like India, China, Russia etc? That's third of the market excluded right there in just 3 countries. Anyway, I'm off to Softpedia to see if I can find the download :)

"I went to softpedia and downloaded installer, started and was rejected because "you're running 64 bit OS" There are 6 links on Softpedia. 1 for each installer - XP (32-bit only), Vista/7 32-bit, and Vista/7 64-bit. Then there are 2 links for each of those - 1 for the US mirror, 1 for the Romanian mirror. You have to click on the right installer for your OS though. The first link that you specified in your comment set your market for English US. That must've been a mistake in the installer to specify the US code string. I guess they don't do IP filtering after all. Some do - like Hulu, Pandora, Last.fm, etc. Sometimes websites just check your locale settings in Windows, and if you change the Regional Settings in the Control Panel, you can trick websites into giving you out-of-country info. Anyway, cheers!