{"id":483,"date":"2015-09-06T14:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T22:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/try-microsoft-security-essentials\/"},"modified":"2015-03-31T14:48:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T22:48:57","slug":"try-microsoft-security-essentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/try-microsoft-security-essentials\/","title":{"rendered":"Try Microsoft Security Essentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free Anti-Virus Protection, by Microsoft!? I used to be a big proponent of AVG&#8217;s free antivirus software. While AVG is still available, and still works well, they make you jump through some hoops to get it. Registration can be annoying and it&#8217;s just enough of a pain for me not to want to do it.<br \/>\n<!--adsense--><br \/>\nRecently Microsoft introduced it&#8217;s own security suite into the mix, it&#8217;s free to Windows users. It would almost be a joke if they charged for it, as most viruses install through bugs in Microsoft&#8217;s own Windows operating system. You can download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security_essentials\/\">Microsoft Security Essentials<\/a> through Microsoft&#8217;s Website. The install is quick and updates and scans can be scheduled to happen automatically. The software is relatively light on resource usage, which is a big plus. Most importantly, the system is relatively robust. It&#8217;s possible to install on an already infected machine and use as a clean-up tool. It also does real-time protection. Antivirus is a necessary companion to any Windows install, Microsoft&#8217;s offering is solid, and most importantly free. Look out for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free Anti-Virus Protection, by Microsoft!? I used to be a big proponent of AVG&#8217;s free antivirus software. While AVG is still available, and still works well, they make you jump through some hoops to get it. Registration can be annoying and it&#8217;s just enough of a pain for me not to want to do it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}