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 Differences Between Microsoft Security Essentials and FCS
Endpoint security, FCS, Microsoft Security Essentials
Can you explain the key differences between Microsoft Security Essentials and FCS?

This question is from the Microsoft Live Chat which took place on July 13th.



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ASKED: July 20, 2010  2:43 AM
UPDATED: July 20, 2010  4:44 PM
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Microsoft Security Essentials is a consumer antimalware solution- provides advanced protection to individual Windows clients. There is no centralized management for MSE. FCS on the other hand is an enterprise antimalware solution- it provides comprehensive malware protection to enterprise wide clients- so it can be centrally managed for policies, deployment, monitoring etc
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Does FCS also do viruses or will a secondary application need to be installed?

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