Microsoft Security Essentials
The Microsoft Security Essentials ( MSE short, former project name Morro ) is a free anti -virus solution the company Microsoft, which provides protection against various types of malicious programs such as viruses, spyware, rootkits, and trojans for Windows systems.
The MSE replaces Windows Live OneCare, a paid antivirus solution, as well as Windows Vista and Windows 7 the free Windows Defender, which protected the user only against adware, spyware.
Since Windows 8, the Security Essentials integrated in Windows Defender, which Windows 8 has a full, free virus and spyware protection.
Development
Microsoft announced Morro on 19 November 2008. It marked a turning point in Microsoft's anti-virus strategy. Instead of a paid solution to offer, as with OneCare, it should be free and easy to use. To install Microsoft Security Essentials, a legal version of Windows is required. Due to the advance became known version 1.0.2140.0 came out that the internal name of Morro has been changed in Microsoft Security Essentials.
An official beta version was published on 23 June 2009 and provided with a download quota of 75,000 only for selected countries available. The final version was released on 29 September 2009. It is available in 8 languages and 19 countries.
Microsoft Security Essentials 2 was provided on 16 December 2010 for public download. New features include a heuristic malware detection, and, under Windows Vista and 7, a filtering of network traffic.
Since mid-2011, Microsoft publishes the rescue operating system " Standalone System Sweeper ", which can be started from a CD or a USB flash drive and the Microsoft Security Essentials includes.
On April 24, 2012 Microsoft released the version 4.0 of the antivirus. This has an active in the background of the computer real-time scanner and a manually controllable file scanner. In addition to a newly integrated automatic removal of malicious programs both operation and data processing performance have been improved.
Functions
MSE is a significantly reduced version of OneCare, which only provides protection against malicious software. After installing the product in the Windows Defender, which is pre-installed by default on Windows Vista and 7 is disabled.
Updates for the antivirus solution will be published daily through Microsoft Update. If the default settings are used, files are unpacked and scanned in archives. Downloaded files and e -mail attachments are also examined. Before an action at a suspicious file is made, the user will be informed first. If no interaction is made, is made after 10 minutes the action that is available by default. System Restore entries are made before each change.
As with the Windows Defender membership in Microsoft SpyNet is set up, where personal data can be transferred. Since version 2.0, this can be turned off.
System Requirements
The minimum system requirements depend on the operating system version you are using. An activated copy of Windows is assumed.