Microsoft has confirmed it will start rolling-out its free software security product for Windows users from next week.

The software solution, codenamed “Morro”, has been given the considerably less interesting name “Microsoft Security Essentials” for its public debut; replacing Microsoft’s paid “OneCare” security solution.

Security Essentials will be available on June 23rd to users in the US, Brazil and Israel running on Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7. The product promises to provide users with protection against the risks of viruses, scamware, spyware and other annoyances.

To use Security Essentials, you will first have to prove to Microsoft your version of Windows is a genuine, non-pirated installation through the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program.

Microsoft says the product offering is being targetted at the millions of Windows machines currently running without any form of Antivirus or security software protection. This is largely a problem in the third-world and China. Unfortunately, a lot of those machines are likely running non-geniune versions of Windows already - and thus won’t have access to Security Essentials. So this Microsoft initiative is unlikely to make a huge dent in the problems associated with people running insecure versions of Windows without any form of protection.