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Free MS Security Essentials are worth trying

Woody Leonhard

By Woody Leonhard

Fast, full-featured, and free, Microsoft's new security suite is drawing accolades from experts and howls of agony from competitors.

If you're tired of your bloated and expensive security suite exhorting/extorting you for more money — and you can't stomach the way free AV products try to scare you into paying — it's time to try something new and better from an unexpected source.

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