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Ms Forefront Security - Installs in W7. FREE trials
Hi all
If you have a technet subscription you can download free - other wise you can get it for 120 days trial - Microsoft's corporate security offering -- very good indeed -- Microsoft Forefront Security. MSE is based on this but IMO this is HUGELY better - should be as its designed for businesses.
It works fine on client computers as well as servers - you need to do it a bit fiddly since this is normally deployed to clients via a server. So assuming you've downloaded the ISO and mounted either the ISO to a virtual drive or burned a physical disk proceed as follows.
Preliminary taks -- uninstall MSE (AND SYMANTEC if you are using that).
Assume Q is your CD image / CD/DVD drive.
now -- install from the iso as follows
1) get into a DOS elevated command mode (right mouse click on Command prompt - run as administrator)
2) CD Q:\CLIENT\X64\
3) Q:
4) CLIENTSETUP /NOMOM (You need that parameter since we are installing on a "stand alone client machine" where the security will not be run from the central server but by a user logged on to the machine).
Now it will install.
5) You'll get a message that it needs to update -- don't chose the automatic update as it will go to the "windows catalog" -- again this is because this type of software is usually managed and updated from a central server. Just use normal Windows update -- then it will update normally just like any other windows component.
If you are running an x-86 version of W7 then step 2 just needs to be CD Q:\CLIENT
It's appearance and operation is very similar to MSE - but it has a great feature not present in a lot of other security suites -- Software explorer which shows at a glance what's running, what start up programs / services are started etc. You can delete / disable these at will very simply indeed from within the little panel - screenshot shown.
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From the main FSC panel choose TOOLS
I don't normally have a high regard for typical AV software - most should stay still shrinkwrapped in their boxes - but this one does seem good -- and as its business based I would expect definition updates and fixes to be released very often.
Cheers
jimbo