Some of you might wonder why I’m writing about this topic again after publishing the two articles Microsoft Security Essentials Final Announced and Microsoft Security Essentials Final Available. The main reason for this third article originates from an article about SEO poisoning that was posted a few days ago at Websense. SEO poisoning describes a method of using SEO to rank rogue websites highly in the search engines for specific search terms. The release of Microsoft’s Security Essentials software seems to have sparked rogue websites that rank highly for related search terms, do not offer the Microsoft product but a rogue antivirus software that is infecting the computer systems instead.
The best way to download Microsoft Security Essentials is therefor directly from Microsoft. You can point your web browser directly to the Security Essentials website which is hosted at Microsoft.com.
The only valid alternatives are trusted download portals like Softpedia or Betanews but definitely not third party websites that are offering the download. Most experienced users might not have a problem distinguishing legit and rogue websites but many Internet users seem to have them.
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Tested out Microsoft Security Essentials. It’s purely signature base. That means no heuristic scanning. Avira is still the best free anti-virus scanner out there. Also, Security Essentials does not play nice with ZoneAlarm’s free firewall. I actually got the blue screen of death on a Vista machine with this.
MSE is better than nothing. And the price is right.
However, the combination of Avira + ThreatFire + Comodo Firewall Pro (all free editions) is IMHO the best security combination out there. Robust security with virtually no false positives. And all three apps play nicely with each other. Which is a lot more than I can say about some of the so-called integrated suites I’ve tried
Use the above three apps, and stay on top of your Microsoft and Firefox updates, and you’ll be about as secure as it ’s possible to be with a system as intrinsically insecure as Windows is.
Since I’ve starting using this combination, nothing (knock wood!) has gotten through to bite me.
Thanks for the post and for sharing the resourceful info on downloading Microsoft security essentials.