Microsoft Security Essentials

• Quick blog post on MSE, which is Microsoft’s free antivirus/anti-spam tool. I sometimes boot into an XP Mode virtual PC for demos and was using AVG, but noticed that AVG 8x had more functionality than 9x, more of a downgrade than an upgrade..
• Works with all Windows 32bit based systems, no support for 64bit at present

Microsoft Security Essentials

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