News Free MS antivirus available

[`mongoose]

lo all

We're playing with this @ work atm..

http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/

It's free to people who have legit copies of windows but it does send "anonymised" data back to MS reporting on your application usage and what you have installed.

So far I've found it quicker than Kaspersky, less load intensive and has detected worms/malware better than kaspersky has.

Really not bad tbh and considering it's free...

M

 

[`mongoose]

btw sorry - this was supposed to be posted in ze techie forum. I dunno how it got here - probably complete forum incompetence on my part.



M

 

[Kougar]

We use Kaspersky, have found it to be a pain in the arse when using certain programs as it inevetabley decideds to delete the exe file, or atleast stick it in the quarantine zone... but otherwise, its ok. has picked up alot of crap over the past few months from silly.. silly teachers.

but, ill give that MS one a google.. seems intresting.

 

[soze]

I did not think Security Essentials could be used in a corporate environment? It is a very nice AV but if its free to the Corporate world too that could be bad for our sales teams Unless you mean your running the Forefront Trial?

 

[Kougar]

actually i dont think there is any corporate cost involved. as your paying for windows licences anyway in a corporate environment. i didnt find anything on the website to indicate needing a typical anual microsoft licence anyway.

 

[Gibbo]

Anything is quicker than Kaspersky. That is a real resource hog.

 

[tierk]

Think it comes for free on Windows 7 - which i have on my home PC but not my laptop and i have to say its has worked a treat since its been installed.

Having said that i never ever ever had a problem with Avast and that has been on all the PC's - the whole family which is about 8 in total - in about 6-8 years, which is /was free to use as well.

 

[soze]

actually i dont think there is any corporate cost involved. as your paying for windows licences anyway in a corporate environment. i didnt find anything on the website to indicate needing a typical anual microsoft licence anyway.

# INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS.

* Use. You may install and use any number of copies of the software on your devices in your household for use by people who reside there or for use in your home-based small business.

That's from the terms, I think Corporate users should be using Forefront.

 

[Job]

MS antivirus?
Soon to be the most attacked AV on the market.

You'll switch on, logon on to disney.com and it'll popup
'Your antivirus has been disabled'

The internet is f*cked.
I just recently had a backdoor bot on the wifes's (steady) PC and
it took me 2 weeksto get it and all the sh*t that came with it off
the drive (NT shutdowns, no net access, wallpapers, desktophijacks, 18 svhosts running and 30 regedits, wouldn't run any .exe files, couldn't see images
locked out of taskmanager and regedit, cleared them as usual and got corrupted program errors, every malware/av program on the net would error out
and lock up and all of this happened exactly the same in safe mode, if I identified any virus running and deleted the pc would shut down and reboot with the file back in place)
anyway got it back after 2 weeks and 2 hours later the whole lot were back on again..had to format and reload...who exactly benefits from this shit?

 

[soze]

That's why i redirect my documents and use ghost and back my machine up every couple of weeks. If i can't fix it in a hour i just restore it and a hour later im back to a safe point.

 

[liloe]

What's an antivirus program? Does that work on my Mac, too?

 

[TdC]

unixen can catch illnesses just as well as a wintel. I should know

 

[Ingafgrinn Macabre]

We use Kaspersky, have found it to be a pain in the arse when using certain programs as it inevetabley decideds to delete the exe file, or atleast stick it in the quarantine zone... but otherwise, its ok. has picked up alot of crap over the past few months from silly.. silly teachers.

Yup, love Kaspersky, use it here too.

Anything is quicker than Kaspersky. That is a real resource hog.

My experience is that Kaspersky is very slow on bootup, but very light on resources once it has finished that boot check stage. Atleast compared to the other big players like Symantec/Norton and MacAfee.
As kougar said though, it sometimes does have a tendency to shoot first, ask later, which, when it comes to viruses, is probably the safest way to go, but can sometimes be pretty annoying.