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!insert spoiler here! I work for a prominent company in the anti-malware software industry. Microsoft Security Essentials is interesting not only because it is free, but because it is actually really good. It does not have the same signature scope as some of the biggest players, at the moment, but its technology and self-defense features (which are arguably the most important) are top-notch. It is, without a doubt, the best free AV solution on the market at the moment.
Edit: PS: We won't tell you that and (astonishingly bad marketing, but I'm not joking) are good complements that remove most of the crapware that we don't. Basically, while almost all vendors are pretty good at adding new signatures on a regular basis, most use archaic APIs to install themselves on the system and to prevent themselves from being deactivated. It doesn't really matter how many viruses you detect or how good you are at stream scanning if a simple application can turn you off and proceed to fetch and execute the real payload. A good, very recent example of how bad this can be (even if it might be good for the security software's compatibility or stability) is the which subdues all major commercial antivirus solutions (scroll down to see the list of vulnerable solutions). Using the System Service Descriptor Table is something Microsoft has advised against for a long time, but no commercial actor has responded (which makes sense business-wise, but arguably not for Microsoft). Before you throw out all of your commercial security solutions, please keep in mind that I am only talking about antivirus solutions, i.e. The bare essentials (Microsoft Security Essentials) - what amounts to the module 'File scanning' in most Internet Security products.
Installing Microsoft Security Essentials does not give you a good firewall, good anti-phishing, encryption, or any of the other security-related or plain useful features that commercial vendors often do (although I'd argue that Microsoft is gradually improving in these areas with other products). I can recommend ' brand new (May 2010), and (requires free registration). Never trust results from testing companies that are sponsored by the software vendors themselves. A surprisingly large amount of antivirus vendors cite testers that they themselves sponsor as if they were objective.
A good rule of thumb for when you see a test: Find out which company did the testing, Google them, go to their website and look for any vendor logos.