MS Anti-virus

[SuperDave]

Just announced today. MS releasing their new AV free. Beta has been out since June.

[Computer Hope Admin]

First look: Microsoft Security Essentials impresses

Microsoft's new antimalware solution, Microsoft Security Essentials, is now available for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. Ars puts MSE through its paces and finds an unobtrusive app with a clean interface that protected us in the dark corners of the Internet.

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[Computer Hope Admin]

Rivals mock Microsoft's free security software
Although one of the top consumer security vendors welcomed Microsoft's Security Essentials to the market, another dismissed the new free software as a "poor product" that will "never be up to snuff."

Earlier today, Microsoft launched Security Essentials, its free antivirus and antispyware software suite, which has been in development for almost a year.

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[Griff]

Feh, of course rivals would mock it. It hurts them. Most independent reviews have praised MSE. What we need is for a major team to through everything they have at it and see how it holds up.   

[evilfantasy]

I've been running it in VM for a few days. Haven't put it through any tests yet but so far it seems fine.

A good review by Alex Eckelberry from Sunbelt Software. Thoughts on MSE

I read one blog where people were acting surprised that MS was releasing a free security product to protect "itself" from the big bad internet. I guess they forgot about Windows Defender and the Windows Firewall, both free and have been there for years.

MSE isn't protecting Windows from itself. It's protecting users from themselves. Just like any other antivirus.

[bobgar34]

  Microsoft's free Security Essentials antivirus software identified 98% of over half a million malware samples, an accuracy rating an independent testing company called "very good" today. read full story here  http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138730/Independent_tester_Security_Essentials_very_good_

[evilfantasy]

Computer World is biased towards Symantec. Personally I don't trust anything they say.

The latest AV-Comparatives results gave MSE a 90.0% which was #14 on the list.

Caution PDF: > http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/ondret/avc_report23.pdf

[SuperDave]

Here's another review.

[2x3i5x]

MSE I hear is based on Microsoft's Forefront software, which is the paid AV software for the businessman.

What is your view on AVAST 5? The latest AVAST version that will be out later this month? I'm using a beta 2 version of the AVAST 5 right now and it's pretty good for being just a beta product! Looks good to, imho!

[Broni]

If I'm not wrong, MSE is based on OneCare, which was rather pretty poor tool.
If that's true, I don't expect much here.
In any case, it's for the best, if M$ just stays with Windows and avoid creating all other kind of crap, like browsers, firewalls, AVs, etc.

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/msestart/thread/5923e8ac-08bc-43ab-ad51-1a5392510f79

All of the Microsoft antimalware engines and detections are produced by the same Amti-Malware Engineering development group at Microsoft.  These include those for OneCare, ForeFront, Windows Defender, the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) and now Microsoft Security Essentials.  The only difference between most of these is the GUI interface provided in each product and the other management tools provided

[evilfantasy]

Just in the first week we saw well over 1.5 million downloads of Microsoft Security Essentials

Microsoft Security Essentials – Week One

[Broni]

Moth syndrome 

[patio]

Good One ! !

[BC_Programmer]

I don't like Microsoft branching out so much. they should have just kept making BASIC interpreters. 

[rthompson80819]

ok