How to get Microsoft Security Essentials to work through a proxy?

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Published on 2010-04-28T03:46:09Z Indexed on 2010/04/28 3:53 UTC
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It only seems to work for me with a direct connect.

And i cant find anywhere to set a proxy.

Windows 7 64bit.

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