Microsoft Security Essentials is now available providing free anti-virus and anti-malware protection for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 for both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.

Microsoft Security Essentials offers Quick Scan, Full Scan with scheduling for a weekly run. Essentials also performs an automatic update before any scheduled scan, keeping up-to-date with the latest anti-virus definitions.

Download Microsoft Security Essentials here.

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Microsoft Security Essentials is now available providing free anti-virus and anti-malware protection for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 for both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.

Microsoft Security Essentials offers Quick Scan, Full Scan with scheduling for a weekly run. Essentials also performs an automatic update before any scheduled scan, keeping up-to-date with the latest anti-virus definitions.

Download Microsoft Security Essentials here.

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Microsoft yesterday announced that their free anti-virus and malware utilities would be available for download. At time of writing their download page is still showing only available to their initial beta-test countries (not the UK or Europe), so check this link later today.

Update: ComputerWeekly confirm availability from 5pm today.

According to their press-release:

Microsoft Security Essentials will be available in eight languages and 19 countries including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

We could argue that in-built malware protection in your operating system is long overdue. Consumers new to Microsoft operating systems really do start browsing the internet without firewall, anti-virus or anti-spyware software installed.

How the established Anti-Virus companies react to this news will be interesting. Will we see a raft of product bundles that increase the perceived value of their offerings, or will some price adjustments take place fairly quickly.

How does this impact Microsoft’s existing Windows Live OneCare? This is more like a software-as-a-service protection program providing a complete AV, Spyware and tune-up service. They’ve got some real product differentiation work to justify that £38.00 or $50.00 over a free product offering.

Found via I4U News.

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Microsoft yesterday announced that their free anti-virus and malware utilities would be available for download. At time of writing their download page is still showing only available to their initial beta-test countries (not the UK or Europe), so check this link later today.

Update: ComputerWeekly confirm availability from 5pm today.

According to their press-release:

Microsoft Security Essentials will be available in eight languages and 19 countries including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

We could argue that in-built malware protection in your operating system is long overdue. Consumers new to Microsoft operating systems really do start browsing the internet without firewall, anti-virus or anti-spyware software installed.

How the established Anti-Virus companies react to this news will be interesting. Will we see a raft of product bundles that increase the perceived value of their offerings, or will some price adjustments take place fairly quickly.

How does this impact Microsoft’s existing Windows Live OneCare? This is more like a software-as-a-service protection program providing a complete AV, Spyware and tune-up service. They’ve got some real product differentiation work to justify that £38.00 or $50.00 over a free product offering.

Found via I4U News.

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We operate a couple of web-servers and help manage other colleagues hosted various web-applications.

Where web-traffic significantly increases for a site, or periodically we re-host refreshing upon the latest hardware and operating system, we have to move a number of top-level domains.

Some of the sites we manage are global – (of course a web-site is global) – where the community is literally global we have to be aware of when we kick-off a Host Header IP change.

Where our predominant community is US-based an update at 08:00 UTC will hit the majority of our US community by their morning, between 4 and 8 hours later.

DNS Propagation time is one of those unknown factors in site-management; you just can’t say how long its going to take. We do use this batch file as a simple check, but this is only true from where its executed.

A World View of DNS Propagation

One useful tool we’ve spotted is whatsmydns.net which gives us a nice summary of DNS propagation around the world. This includes A, MX, CNAME where you’re migrating different parts of your identity.

Enter your sitename, select the record type (A for web) and click Search.

This is emrupdate.com part way through its DNS IP change, moving from 216.x to 76.

Its also handy to have a Skype, IM or ooVoo contacts around the globe to double-check & verify DNS migration.

You can’t beat a good Google mash-up to complete the picture. Clicking on a green (red) blob shows the IP details for your site at that location. A red blob would indicate no DNS value found.

Nick Harrington
team Ambay Software

Hosting, Software, Tech Hosting, Software, Tech

We operate a couple of web-servers and help manage other colleagues hosted various web-applications.

Where web-traffic significantly increases for a site, or periodically we re-host refreshing upon the latest hardware and operating system, we have to move a number of top-level domains.

Some of the sites we manage are global – (of course a web-site is global) – where the community is literally global we have to be aware of when we kick-off a Host Header IP change.

Where our predominant community is US-based an update at 08:00 UTC will hit the majority of our US community by their morning, between 4 and 8 hours later.

DNS Propagation time is one of those unknown factors in site-management; you just can’t say how long its going to take. We do use this batch file as a simple check, but this is only true from where its executed.

A World View of DNS Propagation

One useful tool we’ve spotted is whatsmydns.net which gives us a nice summary of DNS propagation around the world. This includes A, MX, CNAME where you’re migrating different parts of your identity.

Enter your sitename, select the record type (A for web) and click Search.

This is emrupdate.com part way through its DNS IP change, moving from 216.x to 76.

Its also handy to have a Skype, IM or ooVoo contacts around the globe to double-check & verify DNS migration.

You can’t beat a good Google mash-up to complete the picture. Clicking on a green (red) blob shows the IP details for your site at that location. A red blob would indicate no DNS value found.

Nick Harrington
team Ambay Software

Hosting, Software, Tech Hosting, Software, Tech