MS Security Essentials?

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Any Windows people use this? In my experience it has seemed reliable as long as you don't click obvious virus traps like a porn site or something. I just wondered what other people thought of it.

Background:

I'm interning and the Store owner brought his personal Vista Desktop in for me to work on it. He wanted some files backed up but said I could exercise judgment on what to do with it. I decided to back up his files and do a System Recovery back to Factory Settings. Then I ran PC De-Crapifier to get rid of the bundled junkware. I also restructured the Profiles so he is not always logging in with Admin rights.

Finally, I wanted something proactive like a Free Firewall and went with MS Security Essentials.
 
It was, or still is one of the best free AV's around. I have heard it's standard has dropped in the past one or two years, but I'm not sure if there is any truth to that.
 
Works fine from what I can tell but then I don't go on any suspect sites.
 
I use it and haven't had any issues. Of course when I only go to about 10 different websites for the most part I don't run into anything.
 
Thanks for the feedback. Hopefully, since this is the store owner's personal computer going back home with him MS Security Essentials will be enough.

The computer used by the employees is another matter I need to address next. I might want to explore a more robust firewall option.
 
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