Microsoft has stated they will continue to release signature updates for Microsoft Security Essentials on Windows XP after April 8, 2014, but will remove the download page.<div><br></div><div>I find it odd that they will continue supporting the program but not offer a way to download it.<br><div><br></div><div>However, there are two ways to access it after this date:</div><div><br></div><div>The program can be directly &nbsp;downloaded for AMD 64 x64 bit users <a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/3/8/A38FFBF2-1122-48B4-AF60-E44F6DC28BD8/ENUS/amd64/MSEInstall.exe" class="" classname="" target="" name=""></a><a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/3/8/A38FFBF2-1122-48B4-AF60-E44F6DC28BD8/ENUS/amd64/MSEInstall.exe" class="" classname="" target="" name="">here</a>&nbsp;and for Intel 32 x86 bit users <a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/3/8/A38FFBF2-1122-48B4-AF60-E44F6DC28BD8/ENUS/x86/MSEInstall.exe" class="" classname="" target="" name="">here</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>If these links should fail in the future, you can always fall back on the Internet Archive's Wayback machine:</div></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/3/8/A38FFBF2-1122-48B4-AF60-E44F6DC28BD8/ENUS/amd64/MSEInstall.exe" class="" classname="" target="" name="">Archived link for AMD 64 x64</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/3/8/A38FFBF2-1122-48B4-AF60-E44F6DC28BD8/ENUS/x86/MSEInstall.exe" class="" classname="" target="" name="">Archived link for Intel 32 bit x86</a></div>