Security Essentials 1.0

The successor to Live OneCare has already been released by Microsoft known as Security Essentials 1.0. SE 1.0 was initially labeled as Morro, has retained the core features of OneCare but has removed some of its bloated features which includes the firewall, performance tuning, backup and restore options. The selling point for Security Essentials 1.0 is its price tag — “free”, yes it doesn’t cost anything. Live OneCare showed a lot of promise but the price tag wasn’t appealing enough to abandon the more branded, stable security applications coming from Norton, McAfee, and the rest of security vendors. Microsoft being …read more