Microsoft Security Essentials 2 released

jayme1

as the title says microsoft has released security essentials 2, this update adds a heuristic engine and better firewall integration.

full info here

official site http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

Sublime_2

Thanks, good to know. Sticking with avast though. :cool:

free4440273

Sublime wrote: »

Thanks, good to know. Sticking with avast though. :cool:

me too sub ////////////:cool:

bengalknights

Wonder when this will be ranked alongside the 2011 versions of each anti virus would love to see if its better than Kasperky and Avast

JJ_Egan

Wonder when this will be ranked alongside the 2011 versions of each anti virus would love to see if its better than Kasperky and Avast


Got a long way to go to beat Kaspersky .
Improvement over last version could challenge Avast .

jje

GunJack

JJ_Egan wrote: »

Got a long way to go to beat Kaspersky .
Improvement over last version could challenge Avast .

jje

Think it's entirely dependant on which av tests you read....they're not exactly consistent. Still gonna be avira followed by avast as my choices

Wammer

Thanks for that. I checked for Windows Updates about 5pm and it wasn't listed. Just tried again and it still didn't appear so I have done a manual update.

bubblesbonbon

I think I must be missing something.

There is no mention on the MS Security Essentials Site about V2 so I tried to upgrade using the Help options within the program and it reported that the lastest version was already installed. This is Version 1.0.2948.0

Puzzled

Andrew1472

bubblesbonbon wrote: »

I think I must be missing something.

There is no mention on the MS Security Essentials Site about V2 so I tried to upgrade using the Help options within the program and it reported that the lastest version was already installed. This is Version 1.0.2948.0

Puzzled

No there isn't. Very strange.
I imagine that, eventually, it will prompt you upgrade automatically.
If you want it now, go to http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ and click the download button.
It will take you through the upgrade process. It only took a couple of minutes when I did it last night.

poppy10_2

bubblesbonbon wrote: »

I think I must be missing something.

There is no mention on the MS Security Essentials Site about V2 so I tried to upgrade using the Help options within the program and it reported that the lastest version was already installed. This is Version 1.0.2948.0

Puzzled

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=e1605e70-9649-4a87-8532-33d813687a7f

Version 2.0.657

bubblesbonbon

Cheers Poppy & Andrew

It seems that the new version was only posted on Thursday so perhaps they will try a phased auto upgrade.