Windows 7 KB3193414 breaks Microsoft Security Essentials

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Updated onJune 7, 2018

updated onJune 7, 2018

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Microsoft recently pushedupdateKB3193414 forWindows 7‘sSecurityEssentials. The company has been very secretive about the content of thisupdate, but recent user reports suggest it’s better not to install it.

TheupdatebringsMicrosoft Security Essentialsto version 4.10.205, but there is no information available about the possible changes and improvements offered. The lack of information could be explained by the fact that Microsoft switches over toCumulative Patchesonly this month.

Usually, details about the latest updates are available 24 hours after the documentation KB page goes live. However, several days passed since Microsoft pushed KB3193414, but no KB support page is available yet. Most likely, KB3193414 is part of the firstWindows 7cumulativepatch, which could explain why the documentation pages are nowhere to be seen.

Windows 7users who already installed KB3193414 can offer more information about thisupdate. According to theirreports, KB3193414 breaks the individual file scan option inMicrosoft Security Essentials.

We haveWindows 7Ultimate, w/SecurityEssentials. […] the right-click option to scan files has disappeared from the drop-menu. Today was the first time we noticed the option missing, (the last time I remembered scanning downloaded files using this option was about 2 weeks ago).

Microsoft’s tech support team was also taken by surprise by this issue, being unable to help the users who contacted them.

Been spending all afternoon with Microsoft Tech Support people regarding this issue. Went through 3 different techs who apparently did not understand this problem […] I have a Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP-1 operating system on this computer of mine. I noticed this issue today after the latestMicrosoft Security Essentialscriticalupdatewhich took place last night for me.

If you want to revert the changes KB3193414 operated on your computer, you have three choices:

Did KB3193414 take you by surprise as well? Tell us more about your experience in the comment section below.

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