Microsoft® Security Essentials User Manual

Other Threats to Your System

Malware isn’t the only type of threat to personal computers today. There are other big nasties you can encounter when connected to the Internet, all equally dangerous.

Caution

Microsoft Security Essentials does not protect against computer attacks or phishing scams. You use other tools built into the Microsoft Windows operating system to defend against these threats.

Computer Attacks

One of the scariest threats to your system’s safety and security comes when malicious individuals stage an attack on your computer or network. Attackers access your system via some sort of backdoor and then steal important data, delete files and folders, or use your computer to initiate additional attacks on other computers, ...