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Microsoft Security Essentials Beta is available for downloading

Vivek — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:30:08 +0000

Microsoft has definitely done very well with the free version of their system protection tool called as Microsoft Security Essentials. Now they have released the new beta of Microsoft Security Essentials which is available for downloading for all the Windows genuine users.

The Microsoft Security Essentials Beta is a fully functional anti-malware application with ongoing updates to help protect your PC from viruses, spyware and other malicious software throughout the course of the beta.

This beta is available only to customers in the United States, Israel (English only), People’s Republic of China (Simplified Chinese only) and Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese only).

Following are some of the feature of Microsoft Security Essentials Beta.

1. Windows® Firewall integration: Microsoft Security Essentials setup allows you to turn on Windows Firewall.

2. Enhanced protection from web-based threats: Microsoft Security Essentials has enhanced integration with Internet Explorer® which helps prevent malicious scripts from running and provides improved protection against web based attacks.

3. New and improved protection engine: The updated engine offers enhanced detection and cleanup capabilities and better performance.

You can download the version from here if you are from any of the above mentioned countries.

Download Microsoft Security Essentials Beta

If you are not from above countries then you can still download it from the following links that we pulled out from Internet.

32-bit English (x86): mseinstall_en_us_x86.exe
64-bit English (x64): mseinstall_en_us_amd64.exe

Scan Websites for Virus

Vikram — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:02:45 +0000

We protect our systems with strongest antivirus and are quite particular not to let any virus infect ours system. New malwares and virus target users everyday. Along with torrents, emails and downloadable files, websites are a one of the common modes of virus infection. Now you can check a website for any virus or malware even without visiting the site.

Website named : URLVoid.com helps you quickly scan any websites for virus or malware. It is extremely simple to use.

1. Go to the website URLVoid( link given above)

2. Enter the URL of any Web site, without the http:www, and click Scan Now.

3. You can view a report states numerous details about the website like IP address, host country, domain hash and other information. It also gives the status of the website that is if it is clean or not.

The report is also confirmed with including Google Diagnostic, BrowserDefender, McAfee SiteAdvisor and Norton SafeWeb.

Although there can be no definite guarantee that I site will not be used by hackers or be completely safe but URLVoid gives results which could be trusted to large extent. The site also lists URLs with known detections.

So next time you feel the site might be dangerous, the result is just a scan away.

Do Online Scan Of Your Files With Over 20 Anti-Virus Programs

Vivek — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:52:36 +0000

At times it might have happened with you also that you haven’t installed Anti-Virus software on your system and one of your files appear to be infected. In such a scenario what you can do is try Jottiâ€™s Malware Scan, its an online service which scans your files with more than 20 well known Anti-Virus tools.

The process to scan the file is quite simple. Simply go to the website, browse and select the file that you need to scan and click on the Submit File button. The site will then scan your file using more than 20 different scanning tools. The only flaw that i found with this site is that the maximum size of the file that you can scan in only 15 Mb

Click Here to scan your files.

Internet Security Suites and Antiviruses which are compatible with Windows 7

Vivek — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:04:16 +0000

What’s the first or almost first thing that you do when you install a fresh Windows operating system. Of course you get yourself an Anti-virus or an Internet Security Suit. It’s synonymous Windows and Viruses. I don’t have to bother about that when I am on my Linux partition. So, after I installed Windows 7, I wanted to get my self a cover to avoid those viruses and malwares.

I have a Trend PcCillin subscription and I gave it a shot on Windows 7 only to find out that it caused more problems than being a source of solution. The reason was simple it was incompatible with Windows 7. I had to remove it with a lot of effort. And just to avoid the effort again I did not try installing it in compatibility mode. So, I went looking for something that might be compatible.

So, I decided to search something that was compatible and hence ended up looking at Microsoft official page that talks about the compatible AntiVirus or Internet Security. Thankfully for me I got a 6 month key for Kaspersky and importantly that it was compatible. Following are the vendors whose AntiVirus and/or Internet Security Solution is compatible with Windows 7.

I am sure there will be more compatible applications as the development and testing of Windows 7 reaches final phase. I cannot say anything about other services which might be compatible. But Trend Micro PcCilling IS 2009 Pro is not compatible.