OneCare’s replacement gets beta release…testing Morro
I have been testing Morro for a little while on my home netbook and my wife’s tablet with great success. I previously had OneCare running on these home computers so I thought I would continue with Microsoft’s consumer AV solution. Are you a consumer interested in a no-cost anti-malware/anti-virus product that provides real-time protection to address the ongoing security needs of a Windows PC?
Enter “Microsoft Security Essentials”.
WHAT IS MICROSOFT SECURITY ESSENTIALS?
Microsoft Security Essentials is essentially our free anti-virus product for consumers based on the same #1 detection engine built into Microsoft’s Enterprise/Corporate anti-malware security & protection software, “Forefront for Clients & Servers”.
Today, few do a better job of protecting desktops & servers from new virus, worm, and trojan threats than Microsoft’s Anti-Malware engine. This is why “Microsoft Forefront Security for Clients” was ranked in the top 3 anti-virus products specifically for undiscovered or ‘zero-day’ threats, recently outperforming common names such as Symantec, Computer Associates, McAfee, TrendMicro, Kaspersky, and other smaller names like AVG and Panda.
HOW DO I GET IT?
Microsoft Security Essentials is available to the first 75,000 visitors at https://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials. It will be accessible to beta testers in English in the US and Israel as well as Brazilian Portuguese testers. Support for Simplified Chinese in China is scheduled to follow in 30 days.
Microsoft Security Essentials is scheduled to release in the second half of 2010 in 19 geographies.
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FOREFRONT CLIENT SECURITY & MICROSOFT SECURITY ESSENTIALS
Feature |
Forefront Client Security |
Microsoft Security Essentials |
Pricing |
$12.72 |
Free |
Support |
Email & Phone, including Premier Support |
Community & email support only |
Antivirus/Antispyware |
Yes |
Yes |
Rootkit Protection |
Yes |
Yes |
Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Group Policy Controls |
Yes |
No |
Centralized Management & Reporting |
Yes |
No |
Integrated Host Firewall Management |
Yes |
No |
Security State Assessments & Remediation |
Yes |
No |
Network Access Protection Integration |
Yes |
No |
External Device Control |
Yes |
No |
Automatic Endpoint Discovery |
Yes |
No |
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