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- Report: Microsoft prepping now for next beta of Security Essentials
- I have been invitedThe e-mail contains a link to a survey, and they will select the beta testers from the respondents by November 1.An excerpt form the mail:''In the coming months we will be rolling out an ongoing beta program. As part of the Microsoft Security Essentials ongoing beta program,...
- Tags: Servers, MSE, Security Essentials, OneCare, security, beta, server, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Report: Final version of free Microsoft Security Essentials to ship September 29
- Do we really need another security software on Windows 7?Hi!If I install MSE on Windows 7, do I really need to install another security software on Windows 7?Thanks!yes...It's called Linux and that will cure all windoze security threats forever.Yes and...while introducing 8 year old kernel faults on its own.No, but...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Koobface, FCS, MSE, Microsoft Corp., OneCare, security
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- Will Microsoft Security Essentials (Morro) dent commercial antivirus sales?
- Will Microsoft Security Essentials Morro dent commercial antivirus sales?Microsoft doesn't conjure up "security" in my mind ...... but Ed Bott has an interesting article describing a study that shows OneCare and apparently Morro uses the same engine and definitions scored among the top of the tested products.That opened up the...
- Tags: AVG Free, MSE, Avira, antivirus, Security Software, OneCare, AVG, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-18
- How good is Microsoft's free antivirus software?
- How good is Microsoft's free antivirus software?Question re: crucial measure ...[i]And on the crucial measure of delivering the fewest false positives, Microsoft stood far ahead of the pack, delivering the fewest false positives of any program tested.[/i]By false positive, do you mean files that tested positive in the AV as...
- Tags: Viruses and worms, SECURITY, free antivirus software, Microsoft Corp., antivirus software, OneCare, software
- Discussion threads 2009-06-18
- Morro FUD ...
- Morro FUD ...You should've checked your emailPeople with subscriptions that were expiring in the last couple months were getting a free 6 month extension to OneCare.Norton AV 2009 isn't bad though. It's much faster than previous versions, but the Norton toolbar that it installs is garbage. I wouldn't...
- Tags: Norton 360, Morro FUD, Norton Co., OneCare, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-12
- Microsoft ready to launch beta of its free Morro antivirus offering
- Microsoft ready to launch beta of its free Morro antivirus offeringSimplicityNifty! (Weird how this had cross my mind this morning after we finished our migration to SBS 2008 and suddenly there's a Reuters article today.)Really, all I would like to see is something like how Windows Defender is today--remarkably silent,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Corporate law, Microsoft Corp., OneCare, Morro antiviru, Microsoft Ready, Google Inc., Morro, beta, Symantec Corp., antivirus
- Discussion threads 2009-06-10
- Still more questions than answers about Microsoft Morro
- Still more questions than answers about Microsoft MorroWindows Home ServerHopefully we will finally see support in Morro for Windows Home Server which I know people have been asking the OneCare Team to support for the last year.Backup?One of the prime reasons I use OneCare is to back up all my...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Morro, Defender, OneCare, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-11-21
- Still more questions than answers about Microsoft Morro
- Over the past couple of days, I had a chance to ask Microsoft a few more questions about the disappearance of OneCare and sudden appearance of Morro (a codename and service that no one I've spoken with has heard a peep about until this week). Here are some more tidbits....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., OneCare, Q, Windows Defender, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Microsoft kills OneCare, replaces it with freebie 'Morro'
- Microsoft kills OneCare, replaces it with freebie 'Morro'If only.............MS could do this with Vista you described it perfectly and adjust their home OS licences to cover multiple PCs ;)"Whole exercise trimmed security fat, covered multiple PCs "I second that statement.Amen (n/t)n/tI agreeWhile onecare live did have it's up and...
- Tags: OneCare, Microsoft Corp., Morro, Microsoft kills OneCare, Microsoft Kills, multiple-PC, freebie, security, Symantec Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-18
- I say crapware; you say 'performance enhancer'
- I say crapware; you say 'performance enhancer'agreedall trialware should be treated as crapware.OneCare offered as TRIAL is crapware.OneCare offered as TRIAL is crapware.I want the full version or nothing. Trial is useless.Anyway I don't like OneCare because it's a security suite. I would like a simple antivirus only programohgreat.One problem...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, OneCare, performance enhancer, software, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., laptop computer, performance
- Discussion threads 2008-08-01
- Microsoft Equipt: student productivity rise likely?
- Probably not. But it's not a bad thing Microsoft have done, and it really shows that they're committed to this "student malarkey" we have going. Today, they announced that project "Albany", now called Microsoft Equipt, has been released into the wild, for the masses who want an all-round suite of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., OneCare, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Microsoft inches toward public beta of 'Stirling' security suite
- Microsoft inches toward public beta of 'Stirling' security suiteBug Fender scheduled for 2010Following the success of getting people to buy security software enabling Microsoft to profit from poor programming practices, Microsoft have now extended this philosophy into dealing with all of their other software bugs."This is great news" said a...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., security, OneCare
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
- A new Microsoft-hosted security service in the making: Forefront Online
- A new Microsoft-hosted security service in the making: Forefront OnlineMicrosoft? Security?Surely you jest.Is this serious!?Can't be serious!!! MS is selling the most insecure operating system in the universe, and then selling a security solution!? I think the best thing the civilized world could do is ban Windows computers from connecting...
- Tags: Microsoft Security, Microsoft Windows Vista, OneCare, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, security, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft-hosted, Microsoft-hosted security service, new Microsoft-hosted security service, Forefront Online
- Discussion threads 2007-10-22
- Windows Live OneCare 2.0 beta due imminently
- Windows Live OneCare 2.0 beta due imminentlyRegistry CheckI would like to see something similar to TuneUp Utilities 2007 built in that would scan the registry etc for errors.You mean the $50 boxed version will be due out?Most of their 'official' gold software is beta in quality, so why bother with...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Spyware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, OneCare, Microsoft Corp., Live Care, Microsoft Windows Live OneCare
- Discussion threads 2007-07-05
- Quocirca's Changing Channels: Of Microsoft Forefront Security
- With the launch of its Forefront security product range this week, Microsoft has deployed its tanks on the lawns of Symantec, McAfee and many other IT security vendors. So is it time for resellers to entrust Microsoft with all their customers' IT security needs and kiss goodbye to their current...
- Tags: Quocirca, Microsoft Corp., OneCare, Security
- White papers 2007-07-02
- Microsoft quietly patches Windows Live OneCare to fix Outlook problems
- Microsoft quietly patches Windows Live OneCare to fix Outlook problemsOneCare apptly namedAt least M$ named their product accurately even if they left out a bit of detail. M$ Onecare, demonstrates M$ single defining 'care', profits for M$. For the customer of course, they couldn't care any less, apart from taking...
- Tags: Patches, Operating systems, patch management, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Windows, Patch Tuesday, Microsoft Corp., OneCare, Microsoft Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft Windows Live
- Discussion threads 2007-03-12
- Microsoft quietly patches Windows Live OneCare to fix Outlook problems
- Microsoft is not going to patch the latest version of its Windows Live OneCare service on March 13 to remedy Outlook compatibility issues, as a number of news and blog sites are reporting. The reason? Microsoft already issued the required OneCare patch with no fanfare on March 11. ...
- Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, patch management, OneCare, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Windows Live, Windows Live OneCare, OneCare-Outlook, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- MS OneCare nukes MS Outlook data!
- Microsofts OneCare has had a rough start in the Anti-Virus market with a recent poor showing in an AV shootout. If that wasnt bad enough, the engine component of OneCare was ironically the first serious remote code execution vulnerability in Windows Vista though Trend Micro beat them to the...
- Tags: Groupware, OneCare, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Outlook
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- OneCare 1.5 goes gold
- The retail and Web versions of Microsofts Windows Live OneCare 1.5 wont be out until the end of January (allegedly at the same time as Windows Vista launches to consumers on January 30). But Microsoft officially released the code to manufacturing on January 3, according to a post on the...
- Tags: Microsofts, OneCare, Security, Windows client, Vista
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- Analyst: Microsoft OneCare market share non-existent
- Analyst: Microsoft OneCare market share non-existentYetThere's no guarantee that the others will continue to work at all reliably, after all.I certainly don't trust OneCare!This line from the article sums it up for me:"Folks...don't want Microsoft – which created vulnerable operating systems in the first place – securing their PCs."If they...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Cyberthreats, Operating systems, Microsoft OneCare, OneCare, security, operating system, antivirus, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-02
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