Are you brave enough to try Microsoft Security Essentials?
By Benny Har-Even in Editorial
Posted in Microsoft on
Yesterday we reported that Microsoft would release the beta of a free anti-virus package for PCs called Security Essentials.
It’s currently only available in the US, UK, China, Brazil and Israel.
If you’re in the UK and interested don’t try and get it from the Microsoft Essentials site as it won’t work. Instead, head over to the Microsoft Connect site (down there, bottom right). However, you’ll have to answer a bunch of questions first before you’re privileged enough to get to it.
As with most people, we’re wondering if it will be any better than the previous version called ‘OneCare’ which had several flaws, chief of which is that it just didn’t work very well.
This was disappointing, as if you’re trying to protect your operating system, you’d hope that the company that created it would be able to do a good job of doing that. On the other hand, you’d also think that they’d be able to do a better job of protecting it in the first place.
To be honest seeing the words Microsoft and ‘1.0’ in the installer, don’t fill me with confidence, but I do intend to give it a go and report back on what it’s like. Wish me luck.
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