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Security threat caused by Dropbox?

Recently I received a security threat alert triggered by Dropbox, as seen in the screenshot below:

What happened here? Or this is a false alert from Microsoft Security Essentials?

Should I install Microsoft Security Essentials on Windows 8 Developer Preview?

Does Windows 8 Developer Preview come pre-installed with anti-virus software?

I'm testing Windows 8 on my laptop and it's running great; I just want to make sure it's secure.

Should I install Microsoft Security Essentials on Windows 8 Developer Preview?

How do I set Microsoft Security Essentials language to English?

Because right now it's in Bulgarian.

Yeah I got a trojan :S.

View Microsoft Security Essentials Logs

I have Windows 7 with Security Essentials as anti-virus program.

Recently I plugged in a flash drive and SE quarantined some important files.

I tried Restore option, but failed with some error.

Now I need to at least find the names of the affected files. Is there any way I can view it's log files?

Multiple Antivirus Software

I installed Microsoft Security Essentials on my newly rebuilt laptop.

When I was installing Adobe Acrobat Reader, it also installed McAfee Security Scan Plus - I did not see the option of not installing McAfee.

You shouldn't have multiple anti-virus softwares on the same machine, right? Should I uninstall McAfee?

Editing the Microsoft Security Essentials context-menu

As all MSE users would know, the context-menu item that it adds to Explorer is really long, with one whole sentence "Scan with Microsoft Security Essentials...". Is there a way to edit this and shorten it?

I figured out the the file shellext.dll is responsible for registering the context menu. I used ResEdit to edit the DLL and changed the string table entry from Scan with ($BrandName) to Scan with MSE. But it still won't change. I've also tried de-registering the DLL and then registering it again. No luck!

Any ideas? Or am I doing something wrong?

Microsoft Security Essentials does not turn on at startup

Of late, MSE has stopped starting the real time protection on its own. I see the red icon in the tray.
I tried to start the real time protection myself but I get an error code: 0x800705b4.

I had a look at a similar problem here and I find that Microsoft AntiVirus Service is started even when the icon is red. I have even repaired my .NET from Control Panel. None of it seems to help.

A strange thing is that task manager's Services tab shows MSE as running. I decided to run a scan and then the icon updated to show Potentially Unprotected which is normal because I use CCleaner.

Can someone please tell me how to solve this?

Is there any way for all detected malware of type "HackTool" to be automatically allowed in Microsoft Security Essentials?

I research this sort of thing and don't really want it to be quarantining the hacking tools as malware, because they aren't really.

Does Microsoft Security Essentials work with any browser?

Will the The Microsoft Security Essentials work with Firefox? (I only use IE for WinXP updates.)

Is there a way to disable the tray icon for Microsoft Security Essentials?

It's running in the background, and seems to be working fine, but is there a way to disable its system tray icon so I don't have to see it down there unless it's detecting something going awry?

Microsoft Security Essentials & MsMpEng.exe hogging resources

I've been using MSE for a couple months now, never had a single problem. All of a sudden the process "MsMpEng.exe" will randomly go crazy and hog all my system resources so I can't do anything unless I kill it in the task manager. (I've quit the program for now and my comp is running smooth). When I restart the program, reboot, whatever, it goes off and hogs all the resources again after a couple minutes. If I kill the process it will go away and then come back a couple minutes later and do the same thing. I've scanned with MSE, another antivirus and malware with no probs. Any ideas? Should I uninstall and find something else? The thing is I've liked it so far. I'm running Win7 64-bit.

Also, I'm not running any other conflicting security programs. This is the only one on my PC right now. Windows Defender is also off.

How to keep Windows 7 from sleeping while scanning the PC

So, I've been using Microsoft Security Essentials lately. And it usually takes a couple hours or more for it to full scan my hard drive. Because of that, I commonly leave it scanning while I go do something else. Problem is: 10 minutes later, windows 7 goes to sleep, and the scan is (obviously) paused. That's What I'd like to stop happening.

So far, the only way I've been able to avoid it was to create a power plan, and switch to it while away, to keep the PC from sleeping. Problem is that I have to keep switching power plans and I'd like the PC to be able to go to sleep in case MSE finishes scanning and I'm still not back.

Maybe I'm just asking for too much, but I've been surprised by the users here plenty of times already. So let me know if you know how to keep the PC from sleeping while MSE is scanning.

Thanks

How to get Microsoft Security Essentials to work through a proxy?

It only seems to work for me with a direct connect.

And i cant find anywhere to set a proxy.

Windows 7 64bit.

As for why... we are in development network that is isolated from the organizations production network. So we just wanted a lightweight virus scanner without having to setup any corporate update server or the like.

Windows Defender vs. Security Essentials in Windows 8

What is the difference between Windows Defender on Windows 8 and Microsoft Security Essentials? They practically look alike, so is there a need to install Security Essentials?

How does the performance of Microsoft Security Essentials compare with other Anti-virus products [closed]

Are there any solid data (i.e. benchmarks) comparing the performance of Windows Security Essentials with other anti-virus products?

In particular, I'm interested in how much overhead it imposes on a system when it's running.