polksalet Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delicious_bass Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ I have never used it personally, but someone here(smith maybe?) had good things to say about it. Hopefully, he'll be along... I did read that it didnt score real high in some testing and thus got a lower rating. I will see if I can find that link... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajncajn Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 I have never used it personally, but someone here(smith maybe?) had good things to say about it. Hopefully, he'll be along... I did read that it didnt score real high in some testing and thus got a lower rating. I will see if I can find that link... I just sent my Mom's laptop off with it based on his recommendation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delicious_bass Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 I just sent my Mom's laptop off with it based on his recommendation. I couldnt find the exact comparison I had read before, but just found this which is sorta similar... According to recent tests conducted by AV-Test.org aiming to measure the performance of Microsoft’s Security Essentials, the freeware application achieved 98% detection rate for 545k malware samples including viruses, bots, trojan horses, backdoors and Internet worms, also achieving 90.95% detection rate for 14,222 adware/spyware samples it was tested against. However, AV-Test.org didn’t find any effective “dynamic detection” features (HIPS/behavior blocking) in place, and therefore samples with malicious behavior were not detected due to the application’s reliance on malware signatures only. Again, I have never used the product so I cant really comment...only point out what I found when I did some checking online. I think it was smithkt who had good success with it and I think Ursa concurred it was a good product(fellas, please correct me if I am mistaken). I think both of those guys know what they're talking about so I think your mom's laptop is probably going to be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithkt Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 (edited) I stand by my recommendation. Very good detection scores, low resource footprint, and free. I use this on all my home computers. I can't comment on the quotes from the blog post. It was written in Oct 2009, before the product was released and it does not link to the specific tests performed by AV-Test. I looked around the AV-Test site to see if I could find any reports and came up empty. There is another website called av-comparatives.com which publishes the results of their tests. They only publish new results every few months. While the MSE software slipped a littel in their latest test, it still has a 96% detection rate and only produced a few false positives. No software will catch everything, so it still falls on the user to show a little common sense when browsing and clicking links in email. Edited March 30, 2010 by smithkt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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