Microsoft Security Essentials praised by expert

With this free security package from Microsoft it may well bring down the cost of paid internet security which could argubly be better but are certainly overpriced. Good on microsoft.

Good news! As internet usage is now mainstream, basic internet security should be a standard part of the offering from the O/S vendor, not an optional extra: when you buy a car you expect locks to be fitted as standard (though, say, you might buy a vehicle tracking solution from another company). And given Microsoft's professional approach to user-interaction and interface design, I expect that it will be unintrusive when no threats are found to act upon (unlike my experience of Symantec, whose brand-awareness popups and bubbles forced me to move to a competitor's product through constant irritation).

Well, even without testing it, I can tell you it's better than Norton! :D

It is actually a pretty good way of saving costs, at the small and medium business level. As a system administrator, I freely admit, that usage and restriction policy does the job of protecting waaaay better than any antiviral suite can. But still, we do need one. So Microsoft Essentials, fills in a gap, without the added costs. I do hope that they *MS*, will continue developing it.

We completely agree with Mr Segura's observations. Here at British PC Repairs we subjected Morro to similar tests and found it to be a robust product. Well done MS for getting something right! Now only if Windows Media Player could learn to behave!

Ok, i get, ONE person, says it works, maybe even better than paid items. thing is i have 2 free programs, and a router that protect me a lot better than, this and any paid programs.

I guess the big deal is, its from MS, and works, kinda! not really something to celibate

I think this program is fantastic. For once Microsoft has come out with a fantastic piece of software. Just recently Microsoft have done really well. Windows 7 seems to be a good OS, new security, better Internet Explorer. Maybe they have changed for the better?

To be honest, I think this program is actually better than most other security apps because it offers rootkit detection for free, has quick scanning speeds and also it has a good database. It stopped threats that avast and avira didn't detect. It is better than AVG because of the rootkit etc. I am sorry AVG, but you are going to have to search for rootkit's in the free edition if you are going to keep your title as one of the best free security products out their.

I have Trend and Microsoft running parallel and got ta virus file. Microsoft immediately told me its a virus and to remove it. Trend did absolutely nothing. I'm getting ready to convert my out entire company to Microsoft (like 500 users). BYE BYE TREND!

I am a systems administrator and I use it at home instead of paid for bloatware. It works quite nicely. I only wish I could use it at work too! I have a Server 2008 system with the slows that has been traced to commercial anti virus.

It's very good for home user.

Len you can get Microsoft Forefront security for Server 2008, antivirus included

I have 2 laptops. I installed it on the one that has VISTA. It runs in paralell with AVG Security Suit. I think MSE is far better than AVG both in terms of RAM usage and quickness of thread detection. However, the full Scan of MSE is a little bit slower than AVG but that's of no importance. If I have to full scan via AVG, it sucks up all my RAM and the laptop looks kinda useless unless the scan completes. This is not the case with MSE. The only reason why AVG is still out there is because of its other security features that MSE lacks. However, I am still serious to remove AVG completely.

ONE COMPLAINT
I have the other laptop with WinServer2003 and since MSE is not available for server versions, I can't use it on that machine. That's the ony complaint I have with Microsoft since I have to use Symantec Corporate AV for my WinServer 2003[Though it also works well]

MSE is excellent. We use it on all our desktops. It is much better than the paid bloatware crap we uninstalled. N _ _ _ _ _, Mc _ _ _ _ etc. garbage. We are in no way fanboys of microsoft. People say the most rude things when they are jealous or threatened. Get a life.

Another blog posting that makes decision based on VirusTotal logs. Dont these experts ever learn that VT is 10% of the protection story. Most of these products detect a lot more through other technologies than what VT shows

@Bob
VirusTotal is the #1 online virus checker.

If you can't have your AV properly detect threats through it, then you've got some serious work to do.

I can't afford to install the full version of each AV and do testing, so VirusTotal comes in handy and I trust the results.

Syed, If you cant run MSE on your servers, get MS Forefront which is just as good, if not the better. You dont need the full console, just run at a command prompt clientsetup /NOMOM and it installs unmanaged.