Dealing with Potential Problems
If you’re lucky, your computer will never be infected with a computer virus or spyware. Given the statistics, however, it’s likely that you will encounter some sort of malware infection at some point in time—and that that infection will be caught by Microsoft Security Essentials.
Alerting You to the Threat
MSE can spot a malware infection either during a system scan or while performing real-time scanning. But what happens then?
If threats are found during a scan (manual or automatic), MSE automatically acts on the flagged files as you’ve previously configured. Unless configured differently, MSE will automatically delete high-risk files such as viruses, and it will automatically ignore low-risk files, ...
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