Comments on: Microsoft’s Security Essentials http://helpmerick.com/microsoft%e2%80%99s-security-essentials.htm Easy to understand computer help Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:06:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rick http://helpmerick.com/microsoft%e2%80%99s-security-essentials.htm/comment-page-1#comment-6274 Rick Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:31:32 +0000 http://helpmerick.com/?p=3560#comment-6274 I hear you Chris...in fact, I read that AVG just rolled out version 9 of their pay product, and their free version is due by the end of the month. Supposedly will be much faster than 8 and 8.5 have been with even better protection. Have you looked at the new MS product yet? I hear you Chris…in fact, I read that AVG just rolled out version 9 of their pay product, and their free version is due by the end of the month. Supposedly will be much faster than 8 and 8.5 have been with even better protection. Have you looked at the new MS product yet?

]]> By: Chris Smith http://helpmerick.com/microsoft%e2%80%99s-security-essentials.htm/comment-page-1#comment-6272 Chris Smith Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:37:41 +0000 http://helpmerick.com/?p=3560#comment-6272 I think that MS is really going to give other anti-virus companies a headache. If AV companies didn't play on fear enough before, wait until you see how they are going to spin Microsoft providing their own anti-virus software for free. I can here the advertisement's now, "Microsoft knows how insecure their own operating system really is. We know how to fend off the threats." I do think that companies like AVG, Panda, McCaffey, Symantec, Trend Micros, avast!, etc. are going to have to up the ante and offer something of more value or the "just good enough" aspect of MS Essentials is going to cripple them. I think that MS is really going to give other anti-virus companies a headache. If AV companies didn’t play on fear enough before, wait until you see how they are going to spin Microsoft providing their own anti-virus software for free.

I can here the advertisement’s now, “Microsoft knows how insecure their own operating system really is. We know how to fend off the threats.”

I do think that companies like AVG, Panda, McCaffey, Symantec, Trend Micros, avast!, etc. are going to have to up the ante and offer something of more value or the “just good enough” aspect of MS Essentials is going to cripple them.

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