“Support for this operating system has ended, which means Microsoft Security Essentials is no longer supported and your PC is at risk.” If you open MSE and look carefully at what it’s saying, the messages displayed are clearly confusing. In fact, MSE is running quite normally and no infections have been found. In the past, the red icon was used to represent something actually being wrong – an infection that’s been found or the software’s inability to run. “PC status: At risk” is the warning that’s now being displayed by Microsoft Security Essentials’ red notification area icon. But when you look at it more closely, it’s not really the big red flag that it sets out to be.Īfter taking the most recent and final round of updates to Windows XP, many people are seeing this: It turns out Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) has one of those scary messages that seems exceptionally concerning. With the end of support for Windows XP, Microsoft is taking an above-average number of approaches to scare people away from continuing to use it.
