Microsoft Announces Free Anti-virus: MORRO
September 28th, 2009 | Author: admin
Antivirus Morro
Microsoft’s has finally announced it’s free anti-virus software and is ready for launch. The company was already testing its software with the help of the beta testers and just last week it announced to the testers that now it was time to go public.
Microsoft tried to market Live One Care, three years age, which just did not take off and became a commercial flop. So it had announced that it will be instead available for free somewhere in 2009.
Codenamed Morro, but primarily called Microsoft Security Essentials, it has everything that you would normally find in other anti-virus products but the difference is its free. It features anti-virus, scan-on-demand, anti-spyware and protection in real-time.
The software which was code-named Morro after the famous Brazil’s beach Morro de Sao Paolo, will surely hurt the sales revenue of Symantec and McAfee, which makes most of their profit from their products for Windows PCs from protection against viruses and attacks by hackers. Its most probable that Microsoft will be shipping their latest Windows OS bundled with the anti-virus and charge some service fee in the near future.
The software can be installed on Windows XP SP2 or later versions, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Once it goes live, it’ll be available as a download from Microsoft’s official website