AV-Comparatives has looked into the current crop of free antivirus programs, and crowned Microsoft’s new Security Essentials the best of the lot.

That is pretty remarkable for a product that is new, and from a company generally regarded by stalwarts in that sector as a abecedarian.

Well, the student has learned – mostly from the ForeFront products – and is all grown up.

I wonder how the product would place against commercial products such as the excellent Symantec Norton AV, and F-Secure AV….

Props, Microsoft.

AV comparatives is here. Original link from Windows Blorge.

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