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Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users
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protects xp,vista and 7
User ID: 782643
9/29/2009 5:17 PM
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do not misunderstand : this is not "Windows Defender", it's based on Forefront Client Security, Microsoft's comercial solution for enterprises. It detects flowers and viruses as well as rootkits.
I highly recommend this free product to anyone that suffers from a slow system when a realtime-protection is used.
Security Essentials is lightweight and uses few cpu resources. 256MB Ram is enough on a xp box.
I used it since it was in beta and it sucessfully protected this machine even then at a 100% rate at no slowdowns.
[link to www.h-online.com]
Microsoft has announced that the final version of its free Security Essentials (MSE, formerly Morro) virus protection software will become available to download later today:
available on [link to www.microsoft.com]
MSE will be released in eight languages for 19 countries including Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. No registration is required.
Microsoft Security Essentials is available as a 32-bit version for Windows XP SP2 and SP3 and both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available for Windows Vista and Windows 7. MSE offers an on-demand scanner as well as real-time protection and it monitors hard disk accesses by default.
At the end of June, Microsoft made the beta version of MSE officially available to a limited number of users in selected countries, including the US, the UK, Israel, China and Brazil.
At the time AV-Test.org ran a short test with the beta version to establish its detection performance. The software detected a set of 3,194 common viruses, worms and bots, and responded to the threats in the defined way (deletion, quarantine).
In a test with numerous healthy files, MSE didn't produce any false alarms.
While the performance of the final version is likely to be the same as the beta, only further testing will establish whether it can compete with other free virus scanners.
Microsoft's press release says that by making Security Essentials easy to get and easy to use, Microsoft hopes to encourage more users to install anti-virus protection and help increase security across the entire Windows ecosystem. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 782505
9/29/2009 5:28 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
about time it's out. this should piss off norton, mcafee, kaspersky, and others big time. and seeing as how norton, mcafee, kaspersky and others are the ones creating some of the viruses, it's gonna piss them off even more. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 782223
9/29/2009 5:29 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
Just another patch to fix a serious flawed security model in their OS |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 782651
9/29/2009 5:37 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
the concept of anti-virus software has been outdated for years. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 782643 (OP)
9/29/2009 5:39 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
Just another patch to fix a serious flawed security model in their OS Quoting: Anonymous Coward 782223
Read.Think.COMMENT ONLY THEN.
It is no "patch".
It is a full blown Antikittens application based on enterprise strenght commercial product that Microsoft usually sells. Also it is the succesor of "Windows Live One Care" which was also based on but did cost money.
Except this here and this time it is better, is tuned for performance, and it is for free and can protect not only the new OS, instead MS is smart enough to allow it to run on XP, a OS that MS really wishes to have died long ago, but hey they still make stuff for it and that is not the usual case for software producers !
This is really huge news for any Windows-User, for any Antikittens producer and it's just very nice to have such a thing around.
It costs nothing, it wont nag to buy it, it is no trial, it just "set it and forget it". The GUI is clean and simple, nothing to learn or wonder about. Any grandma can handle this tool.
So, this time there is really no reason to bash MS. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 780413
9/29/2009 5:41 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
what do you mean antikittens? wtf and also what flowers?
is this some sort of homo code talk |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 782223
9/29/2009 5:41 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
So, this time there is really no reason to bash MS. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 782643
Sure there is!
They have and will continue to buy up or steal other companies ideas to fix their short comings! |
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LadyBlue
User ID: 730536
9/29/2009 5:42 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
So should one use this in addition to Norton or in place of? Is it bad to have more than one anti-kitten software at the same time? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 515984
9/29/2009 5:43 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
Just another patch to fix a serious flawed security model in their OS
Read.Think.COMMENT ONLY THEN.
It is no "patch".
It is a full blown Antikittens application based on enterprise strenght commercial product that Microsoft usually sells. Also it is the succesor of "Windows Live One Care" which was also based on but did cost money.
Except this here and this time it is better, is tuned for performance, and it is for free and can protect not only the new OS, instead MS is smart enough to allow it to run on XP, a OS that MS really wishes to have died long ago, but hey they still make stuff for it and that is not the usual case for software producers !
This is really huge news for any Windows-User, for any Antikittens producer and it's just very nice to have such a thing around.
It costs nothing, it wont nag to buy it, it is no trial, it just "set it and forget it". The GUI is clean and simple, nothing to learn or wonder about. Any grandma can handle this tool.
So, this time there is really no reason to bash MS. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 782643
I think what he is saying is that if Windows was more robust in the first place, it wouldn't get as many viruses. Like, say, making the entire hard drive read-only except for your profile directory. Things like that. |
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LadyBlue
User ID: 730536
9/29/2009 5:44 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
what do you mean antikittens? wtf and also what flowers?
is this some sort of homo code talk Quoting: Anonymous Coward 780413
LOL!
Well try typing what you think the words should be and see what happens, will magically change to antikittens.
Just an added feature of GLP. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 515984
9/29/2009 5:44 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
what do you mean antikittens? wtf and also what flowers?
is this some sort of homo code talk Quoting: Anonymous Coward 780413
No, it is stupid word replacements caused by Trin's bbs software. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 515984
9/29/2009 5:45 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
what do you mean antikittens? wtf and also what flowers?
is this some sort of homo code talk
LOL!
Well try typing what you think the words should be and see what happens, will magically change to antikittens.
Just an added feature of GLP. Quoting: LadyBlue
Anyone know why Trin does that?
Beuler?... |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 782643 (OP)
9/29/2009 5:48 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
They have and will continue to buy up or steal other companies ideas to fix their short comings! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 782223
and what's so wrong about when MS buys a company and MS decides to develop that companies software further and give the resulted MS application away for free to their customers ?
Company A sells code to Company B ( Microsoft ) - in my opinion Company A lost all their rights on that product.
In the case of Windows Defender for example it was this :
Microsoft bought "Giant Antiflowers", MS made "Windows Defender" out of the ex-Giant tool ( which was a commercial app btw ! ) , MS gave this away free for xp users and baked it into Vista and 7.
this new product MSE, however is not based on any previously bought 3rd party solution. It is based on Forefront Client Security, which is a Microsoft own application infrastructure, originally intended for Windows Servers and their attached clients. |
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LouisWinthorpeIII 
Self apointed knowitall
User ID: 708377
9/29/2009 5:53 PM
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Thanks a bunch!
I should have been reading those partner emails & crap.
"I don't know which was scarier...the speech...or the Congress cheering it. He evoked Lincoln. Whenever a President is going to get us into serious trouble...they always use Lincoln."
-2010 |
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kb
User ID: 772658
9/29/2009 5:56 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
the windows firewall (all versions and vista) do not prevent anything from attackijg your computer. it only restricts acording to how it was programed to protect.
in 2006. i had to throw my computer out. with full firewall protection still enabeld yet. that was the year of a state
wide infection worm. that even got in to uncle sams computers. and heres the punch line.. a 16 year old made the virus. the only way to protect your computer is start with blocking all pop ups. you dont need a page that wont display unless you allow pop ups. and using the firewall and all this new protection can later on restrict some things you may want later that are perfectly safe. who do you think creates all those virus protection software. HAckers.. even the white house use hackers to protect there computers the cia uses hackers so does the fbi. the end is i suspect all the new protection offers gives somone else controll. not you. after you unpack your computer from the store. leave it alone |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 782643 (OP)
9/29/2009 6:03 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
the windows firewall (all versions and vista) do not prevent anything from attackijg your computer. it only restricts acording to how it was programed to protect.
.... Quoting: kb 772658
You hopefully know that Vista has beneath the "simple" control panel also a far more complex rule-based firewall frontend, which gives the user FULL control over every single packet and protocol, BOTH IN-and-OUTBOUND ?
You can lock up a Vista PC to websurfing on port80 only with just a few clicks and rules applied. You can also define that it should do this only when it is connected to unsecure hotspots and not when you are behind your router..
Really |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 782505
9/29/2009 6:07 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
the windows firewall (all versions and vista) do not prevent anything from attackijg your computer. it only restricts acording to how it was programed to protect.
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You hopefully know that Vista has beneath the "simple" control panel also a far more complex rule-based firewall frontend, which gives the user FULL control over every single packet and protocol, BOTH IN-and-OUTBOUND ?
You can lock up a Vista PC to websurfing on port80 only with just a few clicks and rules applied. You can also define that it should do this only when it is connected to unsecure hotspots and not when you are behind your router..
Really Quoting: Anonymous Coward 782643
yup, vista's advanced firewall is pretty decent actually, but don't tell the vista haters, they won't hear you anyways, they're too busy spouting off about linux or how great macs are. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 782223
9/29/2009 6:09 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
the windows firewall (all versions and vista) do not prevent anything from attackijg your computer. it only restricts acording to how it was programed to protect.
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You hopefully know that Vista has beneath the "simple" control panel also a far more complex rule-based firewall frontend, which gives the user FULL control over every single packet and protocol, BOTH IN-and-OUTBOUND ?
You can lock up a Vista PC to websurfing on port80 only with just a few clicks and rules applied. You can also define that it should do this only when it is connected to unsecure hotspots and not when you are behind your router..
Really
yup, vista's advanced firewall is pretty decent actually, but don't tell the vista haters, they won't hear you anyways, they're too busy spouting off about linux or how great macs are. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 782505
An what percentage of Windows user change any security settings from default? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 781179
9/29/2009 6:12 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
what do you mean antikittens? wtf and also what flowers?
is this some sort of homo code talk Quoting: Anonymous Coward 780413
while there is no doubt that there is a lot of code talk around here and some 'back door' homo types this is a simple word replace script ......
'is this some sort of homo code talk'
you get quote of the day for this !!!!!!!!! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 774542
9/29/2009 6:13 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
I'm not one to trumpet anything that Microsoft does but for the love of God if you use Windows, get this now! If not this than some other AV program that comes from a reputable vendor.
Go ahead, we'll wait.... |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 772658
9/29/2009 6:13 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
you dont get it do you
the more it restricts.. protects if you like that word.. the less you can do without more specail programs from microsoft.. and hackers will get in anyway..
the windows firewall (all versions and vista) do not prevent anything from attackijg your computer. it only restricts acording to how it was programed to protect.
....
You hopefully know that Vista has beneath the "simple" control panel also a far more complex rule-based firewall frontend, which gives the user FULL control over every single packet and protocol, BOTH IN-and-OUTBOUND ?
You can lock up a Vista PC to websurfing on port80 only with just a few clicks and rules applied. You can also define that it should do this only when it is connected to unsecure hotspots and not when you are behind your router..
Really
yup, vista's advanced firewall is pretty decent actually, but don't tell the vista haters, they won't hear you anyways, they're too busy spouting off about linux or how great macs are.
An what percentage of Windows user change any security settings from default? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 782223 |
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kb
User ID: 772658
9/29/2009 6:16 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
oh praise be you newest system ya cant touch me now.. cant do what i did befor on the old system without microsoft upgrades and fixes.. oh why waist my time explaining.. hackers will invade anyway.. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 730810
9/29/2009 6:17 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
what do you mean antikittens? wtf and also what flowers?
is this some sort of homo code talk
LOL!
Well try typing what you think the words should be and see what happens, will magically change to antikittens.
Just an added feature of GLP.
Anyone know why Trin does that?
Beuler?... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 515984
yep sure do but you have to have been around for quite awhile say 2004ish to really know..... |
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kb
User ID: 772658
9/29/2009 6:19 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
i dont hate vista.. i just dont like it
im os i can do anything |
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kb
User ID: 772658
9/29/2009 6:21 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
i dont hate vista.. i just dont like it
im os i can do anything Quoting: kb 772658
google search item
vista and os |
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kb
User ID: 772658
9/29/2009 6:23 PM | |
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 654301
9/29/2009 6:28 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
vista sucks ass... if i had any money i would buy macbook air |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 782223
9/29/2009 6:31 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
vista sucks ass... if i had any money i would buy macbook air Quoting: Anonymous Coward 654301
why spend money just install OSX on your intel pc! |
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mercury2
User ID: 804154
10/27/2009 12:18 PM
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Someone else had a post on this with instructions for how to remove Avast and replace it with the new MS antivirus. I can probably figure it out myself. I was searching for that post and can't find it, found this one though.
I think I am going to try this new Microsoft thing, because the Avast really locks up this old computer when it is scanning, it's really frustrating to come online and not be able to do anything for 20 minutes or more while it updates. Drives me crazy.
Yes I am on an old machine with dialup, it works okay for me and is cheap so I can't complain, but the Avast is driving me nuts. I really owe it to myself to try this new one, even though it's a hassle to change.
Last Edited by mercury2 on 10/27/2009 at 12:19 PM |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 803851
10/27/2009 12:21 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
I haven't used an anti virus since 2003, simply because I have computer common sense. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 803851
10/27/2009 12:23 PM | | Re: Microsoft launches free av-solution for genuine Windows users | Quote |
about time it's out. this should piss off norton, mcafee, kaspersky, and others big time. and seeing as how norton, mcafee, kaspersky and others are the ones creating some of the viruses, it's gonna piss them off even more. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 782505
I always wondered if they ever create viruses, since they stand the most to gain. In life you always have to be suspicious of whoever has the most to gain. And when it comes to money... |
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