Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Microsoft's New Online Scan

Microsoft's Windows Live Safety Center

Microsoft recently launched a new online scan service for Windows machines, only accessible via IE and not Mozilla.

The main screen of the new Microsoft Live Center
The Windows Live Safety Center, currently in Beta, offers Protection, Clean-Up, Tune-Up and some Downloads.

Protection offers an online scan of your computer to scan for viruses, spyware and other unwanted softwares.

Clean-Up tries to see if it can remove un-necessary files from your computer, compress old files, and goes through your Registry. I managed to claim back 3.9GB worth of disk space and clean 1599 entries in my Registry. What I still dont know is if a backup of my Registry was made :(

Tune-Up tries to optimize your computer via defragmentation.


Downloads offers you Windows Defender, a Phishing filter addon for the MSN toolbar and Windows XP Service Pack 2. Below is a table comparing Windows Defender, Windows Live Safety Center, Windws Live OneCare, Microsoft Client Protection for Bussinesses and other malicious software removal tools.



You can start testing your machine online (you must be connected to the Internet) via http://safety.live.com/

-kbg-

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