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Microsoft caps free security software downloads

Largest registered traveler service, Clear, craps out; McAfee expands in China for expected security boom
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Microsoft caps free security software downloads

Microsoft will limit the number of downloads for the beta of Windows Security Essentials, its new free antivirus software, when it posts the program later today. Read full story

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June 24, 2009

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