McAfee

After a short time in beta, where people were making almost magical claims of its powers, the Microsoft Security Essentials will leave the beta moniker behind tonight at midnight, and be available for download.
Since it will be free to all who have legitimate copies of Windows operating systems, I wonder how many people will be [...]

So says the New York Times. The story is that longtime security company McAfee, not a close second, in the market share calculations, is tired of playing second fiddle to industry leader Symantec, who holds a bit over half of the market.
As I stated yesterday, Symantec has built its base largely upon the name recognition [...]

Neowin has a couple of screen shots of a Microsoft antivirus product, that has been spoken about as code name Morro, for quite some time. The product will be named Security Essentials, presumably to be included with the other ‘essentials’ that Microsoft allows to be downloaded, rather than includes with any operating system.
This does two [...]

While many people are very interested in the speed of search, they should be interested in the safety of what they are finding instead.
That’s what the guys at ZDNet concerned with security say, and I would agree. I see that they give a rating of “The Web’s Most Dangerous Search Terms“. The list comes from [...]