After a short three-month beta method, Microsoft is officially releasing Microsoft Protection Essentials (MSE), its free of charge, real-time client antimalware remedy for fighting viruses, spyware, rootkits, and Trojans. MSE is one more layer of defense the organization is supplying to help its clients combat the threats that plague Windows PCs.
Microsoft Protection Essentials is offered for Windows XP 32-bit (8.61MB), Windows Vista/7 32-bit (four.28MB), and Windows Vista/7 64-bit (four.71MB). The closing create quantity is one.0.1611.0. Microsoft warns that MSE should not be set up alongside any other antimalware software. Certainly, MSE's installer disables Windows Defender entirely, which helps make perception since it is often a type of superset to Windows Defender. It builds upon Windows Defender by supplying both real-time protection and on-demand scanning for all types of malware.
Although you won't be asked for personal information or to register for anything, you'll need to pass the Windows Genuine Advantage validation to install MSE. In short, while Microsoft's protection updates are available for free of charge to pirates,
Microsoft Office 2007 Pro Plus, active protection from Redmond isn't.
One might notice the "Essentials" branding that Microsoft is clearly pulling from Windows Live Essentials. MSE won't be included in WLE, however, even though non-Windows Live applications like Silverlight are included in the suite. Furthermore, there is no download link for MSE included in the final release of Windows 7, but there is for Windows Live Essentials. This is a curious decision given that Redmond wants to push MSE out to all those who currently do not have a safety resolution (between 50 and 60 percent of Windows users, according to the business). Nevertheless, it can be quite easily explained: Microsoft wants to avoid antitrust issues from competing security giants.
Now that you've got the necessary background information,
Office Standard 2007 Key, let's take a closer at the different features of MSE.
The GUI
Microsoft Security Essentials has one of the simplest and clearest GUIs we've seen for an antimalware remedy. This is not something we would call "obtrusive" or "bloated" like many of the security products currently on the market. It may not be the most elegant design,
Office Professional 2010, but that's not what one need to be looking for in a security solution anyway. An antimalware remedy needs to clearly communicate important information when you're using it; barring a need for user response, it really should make itself scarce.
When everything is running because it ought to, MSE makes sure users know all is well, with a green-colored highlighting across the UI and via a green taskbar icon.
When something is amiss, MSE helps make sure users know they'll need to take action, with red-color highlighting across the UI and via a red taskbar icon.
Microsoft Safety Essentials updates itself very quietly in the background. In fact,
Office Professional, we were never once bothered by its updating system; the only prompts we received were when the software actually needed our attention, like when it detected a threat that needed to be cleaned. Signatures are updated more or less daily through Microsoft Update, though new signatures can be published as often as three times a day. The core antimalware engine is scheduled to update itself with new features and bug fixes on a monthly basis.
The History tab is useful for reviewing how well the program is working, and tweaking decisions you've already made on previous detections. It gives a great overview of what the program has found and also gives more information on each potential threat.
MSE has a surprising amount of settings to work with. Considering the simplicity of the product, it's still very customizable. Power users enjoy having tons of features to tweak, and we think they'll be satisfied with the settings that can be changed in MSE. It doesn't offer as many options as some other protection suites, but given its features,
Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2007, the settings that can be adjusted are exactly what one would expect.