Spyware, viruses, & security : Microsoft's free anti-malware beta to arrive next week
- 6/18/09 3:30 PM
Microsoft's free anti-malware beta to arrive next week
by Marianna Schmudlach - 6/18/09 3:30 PM
June 18, 2009
by Elinor Mills
Updated at 2:40 p.m. PDT with comment on what happens if a user already has antivirus software installed and at 1:45 p.m. with AVG comment.
Microsoft will launch a public beta of its anti-malware service, Microsoft Security Essentials, on Tuesday as it phases out its Live OneCare suite in favor of a simpler free consumer security offering.
Microsoft Security Essentials, which will run on Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7, will be available in the U.S., Brazil, and Israel in English and Brazilian Portuguese. A public beta version for Simplified Chinese will be available later in the year.
The service works like traditional antivirus products in which client software monitors programs on a PC. When something changes on the computer, such as files being downloaded or copied or software trying to modify files, the system checks against a set of malware signatures in the client program to see if the code matches the signature for known malware. If so, it blocks it from getting downloaded.
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Microsoft Security Essentials...
by Brechan - 6/20/09 2:13 AM In reply to: Microsoft's free anti-malware beta to arrive next week by Marianna Schmudlach
"Microsoft Security Essentials, which will run on Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7, will be available in the U.S., Brazil, and Israel in English and Brazilian Portuguese. A public beta version for Simplified Chinese will be available later in the year."
And what about the many user of Windows up here in Canada, or are we included (but not mentioned) in the availability in the U.S.
It is a limited trial
by MarkFlax - 6/20/09 3:59 AM
In reply to: Microsoft Security Essentials... by Brechan
and I read in another article that Brazil was chosen as one of the areas where systems often have no anti-virus protection at all, for various social and financial reasons in that area. I suspect the Chinese version is being offered for similar reasons.
Israel was selected because much of the development was done by an Israeli team.
I would like to join the trial myself on the new system I am soon to get, but being in the UK it looks like I will have to wait as well.
They have to start somewhere I guess.
Mark
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