Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Virus, Spyware & Malware Protection | Microsoft Security Essentials

  • I’ve always been a great fan of Grisoft’s free antivirus/malware tool having used it since its first release. Microsoft dipped it’s toes in the waters a few years back with a free package but it got slated by the officinardo’s and to be honest, was a tad cumbersome and not so dissimilar to the Norton suite for clobbering your CPU!
  • So yesterday MS released a new MSE tool, which I’m about to test on an XP VM (Virtual PC) and see how it goes
  • See post from the Forefront blog. I note MS are using MSE as a front to build a rich database of threats and then to populate both the business and consumer space products – neat trick

Virus, Spyware & Malware Protection | Microsoft Security Essentials