Free antivirus now available from Microsoft

[M0RPH]

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

Finally Microsoft is providing the free antivirus that should have been part of the Windows OS.

Just installed it and it looks very lean, just basic antivirus and no other junk. Looks to be using only about 4MB of memory here in Vista 32-bit.

Should work nicely in Windows 7 as well.

 

[CalvinHobbes]

Looking forward to some reviews by sites like AV comparatives.

 

[abaez]

Just installed, seems ok with low memory footprint.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

I will probably go with this (or some other free alternative) once my norton expires. I love my norton but I never visit any fishy websites. Hope it performs decently.

 

[MBrown]

capped at 75k downloads so hurry up and get it.

 

[Uppsala9496]

Just put it on 3 of my machines. No issues so far. Had a version of TrendMicro through an old work license that I was happy to uninstall.

 

[armstrda]

closed now

 

[techs]

Free antivirus now available from Microsoft

This will not end well.

 

[dphantom]

Have it on a test machine. Will see how it works out.

 

[magreen]

How exactly will you test it?
I mean, you can see if it causes stability problems.
But how will you know if it is combating viruses properly?
"Uh, it hasn't found any viruses, so it's working great, I guess..."

 

[Mem]

Hmm it says

This beta is available only to customers in the United States, Israel (English only), People's Republic of China (Simplified Chinese only) and Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese only).

I see why

Microsoft is targeting it at the first 75,000 US, Israel and Brazil based customers. A Chinese beta will be available in mid July. Similar to the Windows 7 beta it is likely the company will expand the offering to meet demand.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

I"ll give it a shot. I doubt it will be better than Avira Antivir Personal but I don't remember the last time I had a virus/malware issue.

Softpedia

 

[Qbah]

Not available in your country or region

You appear to be in a country or region where the Microsoft Security Essentials Beta is unavailable.

This beta is available only to customers in the United States, Israel (English only), People's Republic of China (Simplified Chinese only) and Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese only).

No go for me.

 

[Sylvanas]

Alert!

Thank you for your interest in joining the Microsoft® Security Essentials Beta. We are not accepting additional participants at this time. Please check back at later a date for possible additional availability.

 

[tzdk]

I dont think Softpedia care too much about Microsoft rules for distributing MSE.

 

[Sylvanas]

Originally posted by: tzdk
I dont think Softpedia care too much about Microsoft rules for distributing MSE.

 

[abaez]

I stand corrected - MsMpEng.exe, the service is taking anywhere from 40-60 megs of memory consistently. While both the AVG services (avgnt and avguard) are taking 13 megs combined.

 

[Teching]

So anyone uses this for a longer time? I would like to hear oppinions. Is it worth it?

 

[thescreensavers]

Anti-vir > all