Microsoft announced a beta for the next generation of Microsoft Security Essentials today.
Available immediately, the new version includes a new protection engine and inspection system. The beta version includes the following features:
* Windows Firewall integration – During setup, Microsoft Security Essentials will now ask if you would like to turn the Windows Firewall on or off.
* Enhanced protection for web-based threats – Microsoft Security Essentials now integrates with Internet Explorer to provide protection against web-based threats.
* New protection engine – The updated anti-malware engine offers enhanced detection and cleanup capabilities with better performance.
* Network inspection system – Protection against network-based exploits is now built in to Microsoft Security Essentials.
Microsoft security essentials
Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is designed to work on Windows XP, Vista and 7 and protects end users against virus threats and spy ware. MSE is Microsoft’s free anti-virus and anti-spyware product that replaced Microsoft’s paid Windows Live OneCare subscription service which was withdrawn last year. Neowin exclusively revealed Security Essentials in June, 2009 when it was codenamed “Morro”.
The beta is available now at Microsoft’s Connect download site.
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McAfee, Inc. on Tuesday unveiled its new initiative which will enable its clients to apply a more intelligent, effective and sustainable approach to securing digital information, said the company.
As part of this “Security Connected” initiative McAfee announced the first two of four new connected security platforms, McAfee Endpoint Security 9 and McAfee Security Management 5
The company said that amidst rising security threats, McAfee’s solution of connecting mobile with endpoint security, network security, content security, and the cloud, will enable its clients to be more “agile” and reduce operational costs.
George Kurtz, chief technology officer, McAfee, Inc said, “Security is now mission-critical and strategic to the business. It needs to be connected and correlated, with shared intelligence, and centrally managed.
Products still need to be best-of-breed, without trading off quality, and IT needs to be empowered to say ‘yes’ to data and applications, at any time, on any device, from any location.”
AV-Test.org, a group with more than 15 years of experience in the area of anti-virus research and data security, has given Microsoft Security Essentials their certificate of approval. They tested 19 anti-virus and security applications in the second quarter this year, all but four certified: Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010, BullGuard Internet Security 9.0, Norman Security Suite 8.0 and McAfee Internet Security 2010.
The AV-Test team said, “During April, May and June 2010 we continuously evaluated 19 security products using their default settings. We always used the most current publicly available version of all products for the testing. They were allowed to update themselves at any time and query their in-the-cloud services. We focused on realistic test scenarios and challenged the products against real-world threats. Products had to demonstrate their capabilities using all components and protection layers.”
The products were tested according to following categories:
* Protection – static and dynamic malware detection, including testing for real-world 0-Day attacks.
* Repair – system disinfection and rootkit removal
* Usability – amount of system slow-down caused by the tools and the number of false positives.
The anti-virus applications were scored from 0.0 (worst) to 6.0 (best), Windows Security Essentials scored a 4.0 in Protection, a 4.5 in Repair and a 5.5 in Usability.