MSE Update/ Ongoing Beta Program thru MS Connect

[Airbot]

Don't know if it was made known somewhere else or the date, but using upgrade from Help menu within MSE, current program version is now at 1.0.1801.0

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Airbot:

Hmmmm........

I just ran the upgrade from within Help. It checked me out and said I have the latest version: 1.0.1611.0

???

The rest of my version numbers agree with yours.

 

[Airbot]

Probably would be with the participating in the Ongoing beta test then, thru MS Connect, of which you would have had an email invite for around October. Sorry.

 

[Airbot]

If you have MSE thru the ongoing MS Connect Beta program, the version from using upgrade from the help menu, is now 1.0.1959.

 

[swarfega]

Cool! Anything new?

 

[Airbot]

Not that I can see. As far as I know, Microsoft doesn't publish the changelogs, so who knows. Probably just stability/reliability updates to the program.

 

[Richter]

I don't know if this is simply a placebo (I hope not) but I felt like the latest build 1.0.1959.0 is substantially faster than the public release build...(im also in the connect group)

As far as i know, the only noticeable in your face change in the newer versions is different help files, and different "did you know" comments for the update tab. Besides that, or perhaps besides the possible performance improvements, there aren't any changes.

Btw, it is possible to download the 1.0.1676.0 build from the connect website if you are in the group. Im suprised nobody has posted a download link for it yet. This version is different from the public release in that, if you click on the carrot on the "help" button in the upper right hand corner, you can upgrade the version to the latest: 1.0.1959.0

 

[Jacee]

Yep Richter it's an "upgrade".

I'm also in the MSE Beta testing group

I don't see anywhere that you can download 1.0.1676.0 build from the connect website. Why would you want to?

 

[Airbot]

It's right there on connect, if you're in the program. 1.0.1676.0



Only way to legally get the upgrade to 1.0.1959.0 is from being a part of the beta program and having downloaded it from connect, and upgrading. Not supposed to be posted, you can't legally distribute it yourself, says it right there. Only if you're part of the program.

 

[Richter]

sorry...

 

[Airbot]

Apparently, the newer 1.0.1959.0 version is publicly available from the site now. Or probably from upgrading from the help menu of MSE.

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

 

[hubris]

Apparently, the newer 1.0.1959.0 version is publicly available from the site now. Or probably from upgrading from the help menu of MSE.

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

does that make me wrong?

http://www.sevenforums.com/system-security/64491-microsoft-security-essentials.html

 

[jimbo45]

Hi all
for those using Microsoft Forefront Client security (corporate slightly richer feature set than MSE although similar "Engine") then updates are available via standard Windows update.

Both products seem to work very well these days and are now highly regarded.

If you can't get Forefront Client Security then MSE is well worth installing -- very small footprint, almost zero cpu usage and real time protection which IMO is probably far more important than "After the fact" Virus detection - especially these days with a lot of "Rogue" and Bogus web sites attempting to do all sorts of "nasties" -- like filch your private data etc.

I'm of the old fashioned school that if a Virus has actually got on to my computer then I'm not even going to bother to attempt to clean it -- I'll "Zero" out the disk (binary zeros on every sector) and then restore a fresh CLEAN image -- I always backup every night and also have a reference CLEAN W7 image stored on non writable media as well.

Cheers
jimbo

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