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Microsoft OneCare 2.0
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Microsoft OneCare 2.0
Microsoft introduced the second version of its security software with quietly. Still, many people OneCare now available. Our favorite free antivirus scanner, it is not.
Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is popular, you notice the imitations are turning up everywhere. Fopt as a fairly widespread scarewareprogramma his victims by warning tones that are an exact copy of MSE’s pop-ups. Actually betrays the serial number that we are dealing with MSE 2.0.
Some news
Yet here and there new features like the new Windows Vista network inspection and 7, which provides specific protection against attacks over the network. According to Microsoft is also protecting better, but we could not find in our test.
MSE itself is doing well in independent lab tests. Recent comparisons of AV-Comparatives and Virus Bulletin got the high scores. Although the results of recent tests with XP computers by the German AV-Test significantly lower.
The installation of MSE 2.0 smoothly on our test systems. In some cases, we immediately get a warning and offer to clean up the computer. The detailed information is efficient and if desired, without taking a normal user could lose the North.
MSE standard scans once a week and consumes a maximum of fifty percent of the processor. That restriction does not apply to a manual scan. The first scan takes about fifty minutes to complete. Then it takes only half the time.
Still not convinced
In our defense test knows MSE 2.0 eighty percent of the malware samples to detect. Some invaders are still running after the so-called removal. That’s not a good turn. Concurrent Ad-Aware Free Internet Security 9.0 does ninety percent of our samples, and she knows better to clean up.
Including the detection of root kits, malware that burrows into your system, what remains behind MSE. Although it takes 89 percent of the samples, but many of the suites here get a perfect score. It also leaves untouched two root kits, after disposal, of which one is still fully active.
Let’s try our new malware samples can be downloaded from the Internet. It is no URL is blocked, because this option is not in the package. OneCare stops immediately, however, half of the samples once they are downloaded. We will continue the experiment further by the same one for a collection from an open file folder.
MSE perform his task in just over half the cases and effectively combines all the warnings in a pop-up.
We then adapt the names and extensions of the evil test programs manually. Most AV products easily see through those tricks around, but lacks MSE third of the adjusted samples. The signature recognition is perhaps not flexible enough.
We used Windows XP for this test because it gives less grip on security than a newer version of the OS. Given Microsoft’s emphasis on tougher protection for Windows Vista and 7, have probably seen better scores, although this did not immediately malware from our comparative test of the end of 2010.
Despite what many people especially poor scores will be attracted by the name Microsoft. Moreover, the package it easy for users with its simple interface and minimal pop-ups. However, there are better free products available.
Microsoft OneCare 2.0
Price: free (April 2011)
PRO: simple interface, good scores independent virus labs, is not often difficult.
CONTRA: less protected under Windows XP; scores are malware detection and removal, leaving some untouched threats.
Source: PC Magazine
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