REMEMBER: THIS IS NOT SUPPORTED BY MICROSOFT. Fasten your seat belts because here it comes: Originally, I didn’t want to do it because if someone isn’t able to follow the brief instructions I wrote in the original article, he won’t be able to fix problems that might show up after installing updates to Security Essentials. Because the article shows up pretty high on google when searching for “security essentials windows server”, people kept asking me for a step-by-step tutorial. I was getting a lot of e-mail about my recent article on installing Microsoft Security Essentials on Windows Server. (And I will not be writing an update of this post, because I have moral problems with bypassing genuity verifications, sorry.) 2010: this technique will fail at the genuity verification step of setup with recent Security Essentials installers. The setup would be much faster if Microsoft officially supported server version of Windows, but hell, it took me 10 minutes to figure this out and now I have a sleek and free antivirus on my test home server.Īn obvious disclaimer: don’t do this on a production machine as this configuration was most probably not tested by Microsoft and may go berserk anytime. After you get past the welcome screen, remove breakpoints, finish installing and you are done! Anytime you hit the breakpoint, modify wProductType field in the returned OSVERSIONINFOEX: from VER_NT_SERVER (3) to VER_NT_WORKSTATION (1). Find all references to GetVersionEx function. Then close the setup and fire up OllyDbg. No big deal: keep the setup running, find the unpacked files and copy them to a different location. When you run the installer, it will tell you your operating system is not supported. The installer has two stages: the first stage unpacks the setup to your hard drive, the second one installs the real product. The download itself has no geoip restrictions.
But google cache is your friend: visit the website from google’s cache and download the thing from a link in the cached page. Thank you for your interest in Microsoft Security Essentials.”). If you live in a country like Slovakia – when visiting the above URL, you’ll get redirected here (“You appear to be in a country or region where Microsoft Security Essentials is not available. The first challenge is downloading the installer. You only have to trick it into thinking it’s Vista while installing. 2009: here is a step-by-step tutorial for 64bit versions of Windows Server.Įven though not officially supported, Microsoft’s free antivirus Security Essentials installs and runs just fine on Windows Server 2008.
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