Microsoft Security Essentials earns a VB100 award

Microsoft, the creator of the Microsoft Windows operating system, has been awarded with a Virus Bulletin 100% award for it’s free security software package, called “Microsoft Security Essentials”. While big-name security products such as Norton, Kaspersky and Trend Micro slipped up on the VB100 tests, Microsoft Security Essentials took the cake, earning a comment from the VB100 testers, as quoted below:

Detection rates were strong as ever…with no problems in the WildList or clean sets, Microsoft earns another VB100 award with ease.

According to Microsoft, it is estimated that 80% of all Windows computers have security software installed, but in reality, 50% don’t have a form of security software installed, or security software is installed but not up to date. In the VB100 Test, Microsoft Security Essentials successfully detected 100% of all the “In-The-Wild” malware and virus samples, without any false positives (which are innocent files that aren’t actually viruses, yet the software thinks it is a threat). This in turn, allowed Virus Bulletin to award the security software package with an August 2010 VB100 award.

You can download the free Microsoft Security Essentials Package here from the Microsoft website.

Via the Windows Team Blog.