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MS Security Essentials is Microsoft's free anti-virus offering.

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Delphi 7 Application and Microsoft Security Essentials

We have a Delphi 7 application running on numerous client machines. Recently, some of the client machines started using Microsoft Security Essentials. It started identifying our executable as malware and promptly shut it down. The message…
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Use Microsoft Security Essentials in C# when downloading email attachment

I'm making a simple program to get emails from a pop3 server using VS2010. probably gonna use the open source OpenPOP for some of it. And its supposed to then save the email and attachments in a MS SQL database. But the question is, while attached…
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Passing a file to Security Essentials for scanning

Does anyone have an idea on how to pass a file to Security Essentials (SE) for scanning? When SE is installed it adds a line to the Explorer popup menu, "Scan with MS SE" and I'd like to be able to scan a specific file if SE has been installed on…
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Microsoft Security Essentials API

I'm looking for an API or SDK or any other option to integrate with Microsoft Security Essentials. I want to be able to get information such as when was the last update or scan? and to be able to do these actions from my component. Any…
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Turning off Microsoft Security Essentials from a backup script

I have a small dos bat file I'm running to rsync a bunch of data, using cwRsync, over to a USB drive on a regular basis so I can migrate when replacement parts arrive without worry. I've noticed that MsMpEng.exe kills the transfer speed so I'm…
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Microsoft security essentials blocking manifest file

When compiling programs with Visual Studio 2010 C++ Express edition I get the error c101008a. Including manifest-files in the ignore list in Microsoft security essentials solves this, but only once, when I compile again, I have to do it…
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