| tgill | 10-24-2009 11:01 PM |
Microsoft Security Essentials (free and surprisingly excellent AV alternative)
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
finally something i can send to all my friends on fb that fail
free and works on xp, vista, 7
this is a spinoff/rewrite off of their commercial server product that ms bought a few years ago.
hopefully it puts those norton fuckers out of business, it is not related to defender in fact it disables defender
very light weight, and has little false positives so far (it takes a very long time for a fullscan because it scans everything in an exe or package) Quote:
Security Essentials uses around 80-100MB of RAM and 75% of CPU time during a full scan. During normal activity, the application uses less than 8MB of RAM and rarely registers any CPU activity. Other anti-virus software manufacturers should take note. Many commercial and free products are resource hogs that can make slower systems unusable. Microsoft’s solution has a barely noticeable effect.
| http://i34.tinypic.com/setwra.png Quote:
Originally Posted by AV-Test.org We continued testing the detection rates of Microsoft Security Essentials on Windows XP. For this, we used our set of 545,034 current malware samples, including viruses, worms, backdoors, bots and trojan horses. MSSE was able to detect 536,535 samples what's a very good detection score of 98.44 per cent.
In case of the ad-/spyware testset, MSSE detected 12,935 out of 14,222 samples what's a detection score of 90.95 per cent. We found no false positives during our scan of 600,000 known clean files from Windows, Office and other common applications (as the majority of these files are from Microsoft, everything else would be a big surprise.
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