There must be a lot of VB6 code in those darn smoke detectors!

The Anti-virus is still there, it's now part of the base install. It's under the guise of Windows Defender. Call it up from the Control Panel and you'll see it looks just like Security Essentials. Maybe this is just me, however, I did like the fact that in previous versions of Windows, you could see Security Essentials running down in the taskbar and easily view its status, not so in this version.