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Microsoft Security Essentials finally fixed

Posted on April 6, 2017 at 13:02 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

For several days we’ve been nursing a list of woes with MSE, primarily a completely bogus “preliminary scan results show that malicious or potentially unwanted software might exist on your computer” followed by a clean bill of health.

Yesterday, it seems, Microsoft released a new version – and it’s fixed the problem.

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Other 1.239.837.0, Microsoft Security Essentials

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