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Microsoft Security Essentials First Week
Posted by Mourad Ben Lakhoua in Anti-Viruses, News, Tools on October 20, 2009
Microsoft security Essential the new antivirus solution has been downloaded during the first week by 1.5 million users.
The Free Antivirus has been able to detect 4 million malicious software during the period of 29 September to 6 October on 535,752 PC. Majority of these infected computers are running Windows XP while we find less infection on Windows Vista and Windows7.
According to Microsoft AV computers reporting the most common Infections at the United states were Trojans, while in China computers are more infected by several Malicious application including Adware, spyware and in Brazil the main Malware are worms especially Conficker.
Here you can find Microsoft presentation that lists the malware statistics but at AV-Test.org which is an independent organization has listed Microsoft Security Essentials in better position among other free antiviruses including AVG and Avast in terms of scanning speed and level of threat detection .on the other hand the AV still require improvement on the Malware behavioral analysis.
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Microsoft AV will be out soon!
Posted by Mourad Ben Lakhoua in Anti-Viruses, News on September 23, 2009
Microsoft has released an announcement that the free anti-virus package Security Essentials is now reached the final phase.
Microsoft Security Essentials will have the basic requirements for competition among some major security software companies like Symantec and McAfee with a low price AV solution. The new product is designed to protect computers with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating system from viruses, Trojans, spyware, rootkits, etc.
Security Essentials Beta Testing version has been issued last summer: the package was downloaded by 75 thousand users from all over the globe. Reviewer’s opinion generally was positive. In particular, there has been user-friendly interface and a fairly wide range of settings.
As described in the announcement Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) final version will be presented in the coming few weeks. It sounds like the package will be released on the Windows 7 presentation , which will be held on October 22.
Minimum requirements to run the Security Essentials are: 500 MHz CPU and 256 MB RAM with Windows XP and processor at 1 GHz and 1 GB of RAM for Windows Vista or Windows 7.
This appears very attractive especially that Microsoft is trying to integrate all the protective measures in the whole infrastructure but what about non windows platform.
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