If you’re use MSE, click on the arrow to the right of ‘Help’ then ‘About MSE’. If you’re using any version other than 1.0.1959.0, click to upgrade or visit the MSE Homepage
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Why? is it a security risk or just a general time to update? Will it automatically notify the user of an upgrade that is available and install it for them?
I have 1.0.1611.0 and it seems to be the latest. No other (new) version regarding Microsoft. Maybe you are using the new beta of MSE?
Yeah, do you have any documentation on why we need to upgrade? I sure hope it does it automatically because I’ve installed it on dozens of machines for home users.
My 64-bit version will not upgrade. I get a message saying I have the latest version already even though it is below 1.0.1959.0. Does this tip only apply to the 32-bit version or could there be another problem?
I uninstalled MSE 1.0.1611 this past weekend for testing purposes and noticed the version had changed when I reinstalled. Checked the wife’s PC and she still has 1611. I will report any additional information I can find. For what it’s worth, FileHippo has 1959 available for download.
Some more info here, http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/16433-Security-Essentials-New-Version
And from the source, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e1605e70-9649-4a87-8532-33d813687a7f
I have been having issues as well. First, the right-click scans for specific folders returns ‘0 items scanned’ even if I do a folder with many files an subfolders.
I also have a problem with updating. I have it scheduled to do a daily quick scan at 2:00 pm but this is not working. Today when I checked, it had been over 48 hours since the last def update and that update was done manually as well. Before that it had been 3 days.
Is this something that would be easier done by creating a task to scan/update/upgrade??
Seems to be for W7. I’m running VISTA 32-Bit and there is no upgrade available.