A few days ago, I posted that the Microsoft Security Essentials icon in the System Tray of my XP PC was reporting its status as "potentially unprotected". This morning, after I booted up and checked the System Tray, the MSE icon is now reporting my PC status as "At Risk". Here is the message that is displayed on the MSE Home tab:
PC status: At risk Support for this operating system has ended, which means Microsoft Security Essentials is no longer supported and your PC is at risk. To make sure your PC stays protected, click the link below to see our end-of-support guidance for operating systems. While it is true that support for XP itself has ended, the XP version of MSE continues to function. I successfully updated the database definitions manually and ran a quick scan to verify this. So if MSE is still working, then my PC is not really "At Risk", as the System Tray icon reports, and I can only conclude that this is nothing less than shameless scare mongering on the part of MS. Contrary to the message above,reliable sources claim that support for MSE will continue through July, 2015. So what is really going on? Are any other MSE users who are still running XP also getting the "At Risk" icon in their System Tray? Gerald ? For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
