Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 17th Oct 2009 12:45 UTC
A little over two weeks ago, Microsoft released Microsoft Security Essentials, a security software suite protecting users of Windows against malware and viruses. The company has released data about the number of downloads and fixed infections, and the results are encouraging.
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Probably the best thing is that it's also released for Windows XP... finally... I've gone years (pretty much XP's entire shelf life and beyond) without a good, free anti-virus program to recommend to people.
I used to recommend the free version of AVG without reservation, but that whole stupid debacle over their "link scanner" left a sour taste (not to mention the increasing tendency of avgsrx.exe to jump to 100% of the CPU).
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2006-12-05
...and ironically, on a 64-bit version of Windows 7.
Antitrust or not, MSE is something that NEEDS to be in Windows from the start. Something security-related like this, IMO, shouldn't be disallowed by the government... especially when Microsoft pretty much put it out to protect their own OS that was flawed to begin with.
MSE will likely be one of the first things I tell people I know to install from now on, up there with SpywareBlaster and an alternate browser. I have gone the past decade probably without anti-virus, simply because they all pretty much sucked... this one's actually quite usable, doesn't seem to try to tangle itself up in the OS to make itself impossible to remove, and doesn't constantly warn about nothing while sucking up resources and making the whole machine unstable.
Probably the best thing is that it's also released for Windows XP... finally... I've gone years (pretty much XP's entire shelf life and beyond) without a good, free anti-virus program to recommend to people.
Edited 2009-10-17 18:59 UTC