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Microsoft Security Essentials for a business

Microsoft Security Essentials for a business

This is 2 questions really -

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Guest [Entry]

"Answer 1: Unfortunately, no. The license specifically states in the first bullet point in section 1

You may install and use any number of copies of the software on your devices in your household for use by people who reside there or for use in your home-based small business.

Answer 2: It sounds good to me, though I haven't looked at any lab comparisons yet. I have started recommending it to co-workers for their home computers -- it's a lot better than nothing!"
Guest [Entry]

"""Microsoft Security Essentials is NOT supported for businesses of any kind. Not only that, but it is licensed for consumer use only, and carries similar license wording to Office Home & Student. Commercial or for-profit institutions must pay for the software. AVG and Avast have similar licensing.""

I will ask MSFT if he is right. For now, all I can say is the person who sent is a MS partner and usually has good info to pass along... MJ

Source: http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12558-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=69120&messageID=1320939"
Guest [Entry]

"You can install MSE on whatever computers you want, as long as it meets the minimum requirements. However, it does not work with any Windows Server flavors. MSE seems good enough for me; all the reviews I have read have given it nothing but praise.

The disadvantage of MSE is that you have no centralized management of the antivirus, like you'd have with Forefront Client Security. With such a large number of PCs it might be a problem."
Guest [Entry]

Just to address question #2 - I have been running MSE with religious updates and was infected last week with a GDI vulnerability attack that nearly forced a total wipe. I'm re-evaluating the whole thing.
Guest [Entry]

About point 2, MSE is just a scanner, it has no prevention feature against zero-days malware and exploits which are the most prevalent threats.