News - Microsoft giving security software away to SMBs

[HEXUS]

Security Essentials to be distributed for free to help reduce costs.

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[tigertop1]

It is a real improvement on the previous attampts by MS to control Security. It's free, it works painlessly and from all accounts I read and from my own experience it is right up there with the paid for software.

[Noli]

Aye, I have replaced Avast on all my and family's computers and that was proven as free, small, fast and effective. But Security Essentials proved its match and there's not much to choose between them. At least MS Sec Essentials doesn't need re-registration every year and also has the malware/spyware detection built in...

[spoon_]

If the Microsoft software was secure in the first place we'd not need this. They're not doing any one ANY favours tbh.

[Moby-Dick]

If the Microsoft software was secure in the first place we'd not need this. They're not doing any one ANY favours tbh.

you do know we've moved on quite a bit since windows NT ?

[Splash]

Also... Windows is the only operating system that has been shown to have an security flaws ever. True story.

[Moby-Dick]

well of course

[Hicks12]

and Microsoft's vista or 7 operating system certainly was hacked by professionals before the Mac/Linux equivalent.....



(that was sarcasm btw, iirc windows was the most secure out of the 3 last year ! Wasnt cracked within the 24 or 48 hour period where as linux and mac was!.)

[fuo]

If the Microsoft software was secure in the first place we'd not need this. They're not doing any one ANY favours tbh.

Making secure software (especially for software as popular as Windows) is easier said than done.

[TheAnimus]

If the Microsoft software was secure in the first place we'd not need this. They're not doing any one ANY favours tbh.

I used to run, mostly as a joke, an old A7000 running I think it was NetBSD, as my personal mail server.

After all BSD is hack proof, and ARM instruction set....

But in all seriousness, its good to know that you are obviously well educated with your enlightened take on computer security.

Because we all know a root escalation bug, that was disclosed and fixed, never got re-coded back into the linux kernel did it.... Oh.