Microsoft Security Essentials – Week One

[ceyfer]

Now that Microsoft Security Essentials is generally available to consumers in 19 countries, we've had a chance to go over the data, and there are some very interesting results. Just in the first week we saw well over 1.5 million downloads of Microsoft Security Essentials, but the price (free to Windows users) is hard to beat!

Computers reporting detections up to October 6: almost four million detections on 535,752 distinct machines. The detections are eight times the machine count because many computers are infected with multiple threats.

Microsoft Security Essentials is available in 8 languages and 19 markets at RTM, which covers a lot of the PC using world. The geographic distribution of detections so far still closely follows the Microsoft Security Essentials Beta countries, and is ramping up in other countries that use the 8 languages.

Looking at counts of computers reporting detections by threat categories, we see that the order is different in each of the top three countries. Trojans are the top detected category in the US, China has lots of potentially unwanted software threats, and worms (particularly Conficker) are very active in Brazil. There are also many exploits being encountered in China, which may mean these PCs do not have the latest security updates.

The top threat families for these countries have remarkably similar curves, but very different family mixes.


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[noaccount]

thanks for infos.

[Polkadot]

Kind of interesting when you consider that China/Brazil lead the world in % of non-legitimate copies if Windows. But then again, if you live in pirate countries, you can probably also get pirate copies of MSE.

[ceyfer]

Originally Posted by Polkadot

Kind of interesting when you consider that China/Brazil lead the world in % of non-legitimate copies if Windows.

*image courtesy of ZeroDay Zdnet

Just exempt Somalian pirates . The graph above shows another ugly truth.
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Does software piracy lead to higher malware infection rates?

[LunarWolf]

Microsoft database would have grown exponently if the trend continues.

[noaccount]

i like to see this are there any statistics of infections comparing x86 vs. x64?

[johnshaw1917]

Is anybody running Microsoft Security Essentials on a XP 32bit machine? Would like to know if the software works as advertised before I install it.

Thanks, John

[ceyfer]

Originally Posted by johnshaw1917

Is anybody running Microsoft Security Essentials on a XP 32bit machine? Would like to know if the software works as advertised before I install it.

Thanks, John

Running fine along with RVS 2010 ( VG- off ) and it works smoothly.

Genuine Windows XP Pro Sp3 ( 32bit )
P4 2.66 Ghtz + 2Gb ram

[johnshaw1917]

Originally Posted by ceyfer

Running fine along with RVS 2010 ( VG- off ) and it works smoothly.

Thanks! I will give it a try.

After I installed Microsoft Security Essentials and it ran the initial scan, I tried to go online, but my web browser wouldn't open my home page, or any other website. Has anybody else had this problem? Fortunately, I installed MSE while running Returnil 2010, yes, VG was turned off, so I was able to reboot and drop the changes made to Windows XP.

Thanks, John

[kristin70]

i am using microsoft security essentials on win7 and works great