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Microsoft Security Essentials now officially offers free antivirus protection for small businesses
The change took place yesterday, so if you're looking after the IT needs of a business (or businesses) with 10 Windows computers or less, you can now install Microsoft Security Essentials in good conscience. It's every bit as capable as the big-name paid antivirus apps, and it's even better than some (we're looking at you, McAfee).
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Subscribe to commentsPaulOct 8th 2010 11:32AM
Ah McAfee...the $#!^ anti-virus software that's also known by computer support personal as Make A Fee. As in, this is part of the reason why I was brought in.
This is great news. It also means lots of conversions, as people who run home offices flock to it.
JimScarOct 8th 2010 12:19PM
I've been using MSE on my home computer (which I also use daily for work) and it's been fantastic. I used to use Spybot S&D with AVG for free protection. MSE's overall memory usage is lower and I've had no infections, spyware, or malware since installing it almost a year ago.
While researching MSE's effectiveness, it became clear that it has the best automatic detection of any of the free AV/malware utilities. Since most people don't run full scans often enough (or at all...), this will make it more effective for most people.
To speed it up a bit more, I went into the settings and added exceptions for program .exe's that are not at risk - my video editing software, defrag utility, etc. This eliminated the few minor lags that I was seeing when launching or using these programs.