Microsoft’s consumer-level AntiMalware product, “Microsoft Security Essentials” v1.0.1611.0 released to the web today as the final 1.0 release of the product.
MSE is the no-charge antimalware product that works in tandem with Windows Defender to protect consumers from virulent software and threats. Driven by the “Microsoft AV Engine”, consumers now have the same quality of malware filtering protection as Microsoft enterprise customers using Forefront Endpoint Protection.
Rated by independent testing organizations AV-Comparatives & VB100 as being within the highest tier of quality in protecting users from threats, particularly against threats that are ‘unknown’/undocumented’ and don’t have pre-created signatures for.
- VB100 ranks Microsoft in the top 3 AntiMalware products, beating Symantec, McAfee, & Kaspersky
http://kurtsh.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!DA410C7F7E038D!5567.entry - AV-Comparatives ranks Microsoft in the top 3 AntiMalware products, beating Symantec, McAfee & Avira
http://kurtsh.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!DA410C7F7E038D!5423.entry
For a more thorough review of the functional differences between MSE & Microsoft’s Forefront Endpoint Protection: (formerly Forefront Client Security)
PRODUCT DOWNLOAD:
- DOWNLOAD: Windows XP (32 bit)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/3/8/A38FFBF2-1122-48B4-AF60-E44F6DC28BD8/mssefullinstall-x86fre-en-us-xp.exe - DOWNLOAD: Windows Vista & Windows 7 (32 bit)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/3/8/A38FFBF2-1122-48B4-AF60-E44F6DC28BD8/mssefullinstall-amd64fre-en-us-vista-win7.exe - DOWNLOAD: Windows Vista & Windows 7 (64 bit)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/3/8/A38FFBF2-1122-48B4-AF60-E44F6DC28BD8/mssefullinstall-amd64fre-en-us-vista-win7.exe
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