Photos: Hands-on with Microsoft's free Security Essentials antivirus software
By Seth Rosenblatt on 25 June 2009, 11:27am

When we tested the 'full scan' mode, it took nearly 1 hour and 30 minutes. It's not the slowest scan time we've seen, but Security Essentials lacks the capability to fine-tune scans for specific kinds of threats.
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