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Booooo not fair

Bring on the leak

and for those who own a torrent client

No UK? That really is a epic fail.

clicked on it but cant downloaded it, MS are really shooting themselves in the foot

If you have region issues, change your current region settings that are associated with your Live account to US or any of the other supported countries and attempt to download it.

Its funny, when i click on Get it Now! it bring the connect page telling me that the invitation is for another registered member. But strange enough i was able to add it to my connect control panel earlier today but there is still no detail or download link on it

When its free , why not give it to everyone? This is silly... I struggled to get Windows 7 beta key later to find out it was same bunch of keys which was given to everyone .

I'm not jumping on this one. will wait for it to get leaked on torrent sites

So, is official beta different build from the leak?

Got it.. If you got the leaked one it's the same.

Thanks, getting now off connect

https://connect.microsoft.com/securityessentials

Connect link

Have people forgot that it already leaked last week?

It is not the same build.

Waiting until I can see how this compares to Avira.

I might switch if it turns out good.

I got in. I'll give it a go later today. If the detection rate is very good, I may switch from AVG.

I'm running the one leaked last week. If this is same no loss. I like it so far.

Steps to get it:
1. Click on link
2. Log into connect
3. Take survey
4. Select version (Xp 32 bit, Vista/7 32 bit, or Vista/7 64bit)
5. Download the download manager
6. Wait
7. Run the installer

Thats what I did and I live in The Netherlands so i guess beta isn't limited to the US.

Cool I got in. Thanks
Anyone know if the definitions are good?

Last edited by omnicoder on 23 Jun 2009 - 15:55

Thanks McDave and WillDev. I am in the UK but have already registered with Connect just now, downloaded MSE, installed, and it is already on it's first scan! Pukka, as we say here in East London........
Will report feedback here, and to Microsoft of course!

Got in and first scan was really quick compared to AVG.... So far I like it =)

the beta version is newer as the digital signature is 3 days newer than the leaked version

not sure why the build number is lower though

Got it and it's good. Running at work on a dc5800s (Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3ghz, 2gb, vista x86 sp2) and it's averaging at about 50-60mb of RAM and 20-30% cpu usage. I just saw it at it's highest (full scan) at 74mb and 50% cpu. The numbers might seem high but i don't feel a difference in performance and i'm doing like 10 things at once.

Got in thanks to the link above.
Kudos.

Got in with link above through connect, Thanks.
Before i install are you switching off Defender, or Running Both?

The leaked version on Win7 turned off Defender, so no need to interfere manually as I see it. Leaked version has been running solid here for about 4-5 days, but guess I will remove it, and install the official beta, still pondering about the version numbers myself.

Servers seem to be getting hammered? No way there is this much demand. I keep getting Internal Error. Oh well, it's a good sign, I guess. Have to try later.

For anyone wondering about definitons, seems pretty good. I copied a few viruses I keep on my external drive for testing AV's and it seems to work.

Is it one of those anti-virus things that MUST run in the background? Or can I configure it to only run and scan whenever I want?

I got the link from Mary Jo Foley's blog on zdnet. So far I like the simplicity and it seems light on the resources.

Got in... looks really good so far.

i like it

Yay, I got it!!

lol

It's only 4.73MB. :-D

I put my details as Australia and downloaded it. Needs IE to run the download manager though..

what's your memory consumption? and is there a increase or decrease in your boot time compared to the other antivirus you had before?

Works for me, I am in Australia. If you select download single file only option IE wont use the download manager.

I'm in Portugal, it worked right away. I really don't understand what countries MS is blocking. lol

Seems if you "Google" Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0.1407.00
They are starting to show up on softpedia and fileforum.betanews already (XP/Vista/7 32/64-bit )

Beta Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0.1407.00 (Digital Signature is Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:37:58 PM)
Size for Windows Vista/7: 4.72 MB (4,958,768 bytes)
Size for Windows XP: 7.51 MB (7,876,240 bytes)

Leaked Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0.2140.0 (Digital Signature was Saturday, June 13, 2009 9:23:15 PM)
Size for Windows XP: 7.52 MB (7,887,568 bytes)

This should be bundled with Windows 7!! Then maybe Apple would stop whining that Windows isn't secure!

Got my copy

It's working really well so far. I'm not sure about the detection and removal rate though. But some people are claiming it was able to find some malware that others could not, so that's promising.

Too resource heavy. My ESS uses like half of it.

Looks like it's their corporate anti-malware product, Forefront Client Security, with a stripped down front end. I've run that before, and it's a pig for CPU resources. Watch the MsMpEng.exe process when installing software and see if it uses 50% CPU time in Task Manager. I hope they fixed that, but I doubt it.

guys, I am just wondering what is the license to use the free edition? is it for home use only?

just wondering if any one have any info about it?

for me it seems like a replacement of windows defender or a new version, in fact it overwrite or unistall defender to put this one, im running nod32 along with this on a pentium II 1ghz and 512ram seems run very fine.

***Update***
Seems if you "Google" Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0.1407.00

Softpedia seem to still be hosting it. Available for Windows XP/Vista/7 in 32/64-bit
Fileforum Betanews is now redirecting to the "Sign in to Microsoft Connect"

UK here, just downloaded. First scan was very quick! Looks nice and runs with few resources. Very impressed so far!

What doesn't impress me about this application, is that it goes and turns things on that you have turned off while it installs. I don't have AutoUpdate turned on, it turned it on. I don't have WinFirewall turned on, it turned it on. The only thing it didn't turn on was WinDefender.

Got in the beta program

That is because MSE *includes* a modded version of Defender. For those of you that are wondering if you might have seen this program/application before, if you have Forefront Client Security installed, it's the same program. The server-side application is code-named "Stirling" and is also in beta. (However, Microsoft competitors in the AV/AM/AS business still have no room to complain, as all of them did the same thing with their own basic software that MSE/FCS competes with; only Avast!, AVG, and Vipre don't charge for the basic version, and of the three, only Avast! Home scores close to MSE/FCS in terms of protection, and Avast! Home is a bigger application.)

Also, here's a surprise; the 64-bit version is *smaller* than the 32-bit version. (Even more surprising, it doesn't require a reboot post-install, which is not true of any of the competitors.)

Those of you griping that it turns on WU/MU (in particular, AutoUpdate) and the Windows Firewall: MSE uses WU/MU and AutoUpdate to fetch AV/AM/AS definitions. Also, why in the world would you turn the firewall (any software firewall) off? If you had another software firewall, I could understand it; however, why run without a software firewall at all? Windows' own firewall (XP SP2 and later) is actually a pretty solid firewall that takes up practically no resources; even back when I had just a gigabyte of system RAM, I noticed no performance dip due to the firewall being up. (Yes, my router includes an SPI firewall; however, having a software firewall up *behind* it definitely doesn't hurt, and, in fact, can only help.)

I try installing the beta 1.0.1407.00, told me the newer version is already installed 1.0.2140.0. I installed the leak version last week.

Anyone else seeing alot of security audit failures listed for MSE in their event logs? Running x64 version ontop Vista x64 SP2.

Is this more then a pretty icon like onecare?

I am running it with Avast at the same time without any problems.. I will remove Avast once I am confident that MSE can detect whatever Avast is able to detect

I'm in on the fun over here in the UK.
I'm impressed with what I see at the moment, but only time will tell to see how it fares up against what I'm using at the moment (AVG Free).

I'm impressed with it, taking into consideration Microsoft's previous products and the facts that it's free and still in beta. I'm also happy that while it tells you uninstall other antivirus/antimalware programs, it doesn't conflict with them. While I want to use it, I don't want to depend exclusively on it, especially when I could use ESET Smart Security simultaneously.

I have tried both the "leaked" version and the beta release from Microsoft on my Win 7 (7260) system, and both versions hang at the "Welcome" screen after first reboot and force me to manually reboot back into safe mode to kill the service just to be able to boot into Windows.

I think that I'll stick with Comodo for a little while longer.

One change from Defender is you have to become a basic member of SpyNet to use this, and info is sent to MS from your PC. Not sure what to make of this...I'd prefer it be optional. Other than that, this seems like a winner.

No problem getting it in Lithuania
Installed (replaced ESET Smart Security) and will give it a try.

Yes I just noticed as well going through the settings that membership to SpyNet is not optional anymore. Default is basic membership and you can choose advanced. I don't really know what is send with basic membership as long as it helps to make protection better.

That may change with the final version MS would need as much feedback as possible during the beta. So far so good as far as detection goes. If like me you do not have any virus files to test it with just go to Eicars it was able to detect and remove all the test virus on that sight.

Dumped it onto my Vista virtual machine and runs fantastic. Both the scan and update times were quick, and it doesn't drain much resources at all.

Look forward to testing it when i get home...

looks nice, seems sprightly and seems to be doing the job, will try iut for a while and see what happens.

Cool, this looks great. It's running really smoothly. I've just installed it one laptop, and I'm going to install it on my laptop in a minute.

Clicking on the http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=153446 link just gives me the following error message. By the way, I live in Ireland, so that might explain it.

The invitation you are using belongs to another registered account. If you believe you received this message in error, please try using another Windows Live ID/Passport account or contact mchelp@microsoft.com for additional assistance.

Ah! At the top of the page where they give the download link is a message:

Alert!

Thank you for your interest in joining the Microsoft® Security Essentials Beta. We are not accepting additional participants at this time. Please check back at later a date for possible additional availability.


So, no more downloads available to anybody.

Is this going to replace Windows Defender???

Just visited the site and
"Alert!
Thank you for your interest in joining the Microsoft� Security Essentials Beta. We are not accepting additional participants at this time. Please check back at later a date for possible additional availability."
"The invitation you are using belongs to another registered account. If you believe you received this message in error, please try using another Windows Live ID/Passport account or contact mchelp@microsoft.com for additional assistance. "

I'm sure they're not supposed to be doing this, but Softpedia are actually hosting the installers for Security Essentials. Since they're a reputable site, I'd imagine I'm ok in posting this link to it, but I understand if this must be removed.

DONT INSTALL...I realize that Microsoft Security Essentials is Beta, but I had the following problems -
1. With real time protection and scanning turned off, my CPU usage would stay at %100. This started after several hours of MS Security Essentials was installed. It should be noted that this was a newly installed and fully patched XP pro on a P4 with 2Gbs of memory with no other AV or Firewall installed. The desktop would become fully unresponsive, and making it necessary to hard boot the system several times.
2. I uninstalled MS Security Essentials, but it BROKE Office 2007. I could no longer open any Word documents. Word refused to create or open an existing document, complaining that a security component had locked disabled opening the document.
3. I did a repair/reinstalled Office 2007, but initially it complained that a security component was denying the repair.

As I said, I know this is beta software, but when it starts to break other MS products would suggest that a great deal of Quality Assurance testing remains to be done.

mhmallory

after watching all my porn on Bing, i did a scan lol had no problems.

Alert!

Thank you for your interest in joining the Microsoft® Security Essentials Beta. We are not accepting additional participants at this time. Please check back at later a date for possible additional availability.

this uses over 50MB of ram while kaspersky 2010 internet security uses maybe around 25MB so why would i want to install this over something lighter?

Microsoft Security Essentials in Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Security-Ess...als/95572299854

It is interesting that the MSE is a scanner of both AV and spyware, not separate scans.

Bit of a slowdown but this could be Dreamweaver and or two other new apps. Will uninstall all to see if speed improves...

I've also had this a few times: Event ID 3002

Microsoft Antimalware Real-Time Protection feature has encountered an error and failed.
Feature: On Access
Error Code: 0x80004005
Error description: Unspecified error
Reason: The filter driver skipped scanning items and is in pass through mode. This may be due to low resource conditions.