Microsoft Security Essentials

[212eta]

Originally Posted by Polkadot

If 10% of the (legitimate) Windows users run this program, there will be 45 million users contributing to the SpyNet. With numbers like that, the numbers of malwares detected will rise quickly, and the false positive numbers should drop to near ZERO.
With time, this may become a must-have program.

The SpyNet of MSE wants to utilize *Cloud* Technology
to the Largest Possible Extend; Windows Users!

Another issue is whether MS
-assuming the Great Malware Help/Info coming from millions of users-
will be willing to Improve the *Removal* Ability
(Not just *Detection* based on the Supplied Malware Samples)
of MSE, and turn it into an Integrated/Full Scale AntiMalware product.

This is Only the Beginning for Microsoft's Race against other AntiMalware vendors.

[noaccount]

related content...
Microsoft Security Essentials SEO Poisoning
How To Download Microsoft Security Essentials

[safeguy]

Malware authors have used Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques to mix rogue search results in with legitimate results. For example, one of the rogue links is directly under a MSDN blog entry discussing Microsoft Security Essentials. The rogue redirects are hosted on compromised Web sites, including a Canadian publisher's Web site and the British Travel Health Association.

When a user browses to the compromised Web sites, so long as they have been referred by a search engine, they are redirected to malicious Web sites with domain names such as computer-scanner21 and computervirusscanner31.

Quoted from: http://securitylabs.websense.com/con...erts/3485.aspx

Those malware authors are slick...but we security-conscious users won't fall for such tricks. However, I pity those who get their computers infected due to this. Just be careful guys. Download direct form Microsoft here:
http://www.microsoft.com/Security_essentials/:)

[ceyfer]

Originally Posted by noaccount

related content...
Microsoft Security Essentials SEO Poisoning

No need to worry when you got struck by a fake malvertised site cited above,then just press ctrl+alt+del kill your browser and no harms away. Start a new page after.

It only does uses a MSE "SEO" for rogueware distribution. No trojan or whatsoever thing.

[leofelix]

I noticed MSE for XP lacks heuristic scanning while Windows Defender for Windows 7 has heuristic scanning option (we all know that MSE uses Windows Defender antispyware engine) did anyone install MSE on Windows Seven?

[newprouser]

Opting out of spynet :

I haven't tried it out myself, but if you are interested, you can check this out.

http://www.malwarehelp.org/how-to-bl...ynet-2009.html

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there was an "upgrade" option somewhere in the final version. Anyone tested it out.

It wasn't working for me.

[noaccount]

I installed on 7100 and i dont see option to use heuristics anywhere like defender.

[leofelix]

Originally Posted by noaccount

I installed on 7100 and i dont see option to use heuristics anywhere like defender.

Thank you for your reply, that's what I was looking for

[takerraj]

I´ve seen this ¨heuristics¨ many times, but I don´t know what is the meaning of it. Can anyone explain me what heuristics means?

[leofelix]

Originally Posted by takerraj

I´ve seen this ¨heuristics¨ many times, but I don´t know what is the meaning of it. Can anyone explain me what heuristics means?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic


"In computer science, a heuristic is a technique designed to solve a problem that ignores whether the solution can be proven to be correct, but which usually produces a good solution or solves a simpler problem that contains or intersects with the solution of the more complex problem. Some commercial anti-virus scanners use heuristic signatures to look for specific attributes and characteristics for detecting viruses and other forms of malware.

Heuristics are intended to gain computational performance or conceptual simplicity, potentially at the cost of accuracy or precision."