Microsoft opens security ‘portal’

New site carries prevalence data, updates and malware resources.

Security teams at

Microsoft

have been busy this week, with the full unveiling of the

Microsoft Malware Protection Center

, a portal site bringing together a range of security resources, and also the release to beta of version 2.0 of the company’s home-user security product,

Windows Live OneCare

.

The portal site,

here

, carries a range of prevalence data in several categories, as reported by the

Malicious Software Removal Tool

and from other sources, as well as downloads of latest updates from

Windows Defender

and

Forefront Client Security

. There is also a malware encyclopedia, links to other security-related resources around the

Microsoft

family of websites, and a system for uploading suspicious samples for analysis.

A blog entry on the unveiling from the

Microsoft

anti-malware team is

here

, and some comment on the resources offered by the new site is

here

.

Over in the

OneCare

team, the release to beta of version 2.0 sees some improvements to backup facilities, and the addition of some home network functionality, allowing the security of multiple PCs to be managed from a central system. Another blog entry on the release is

here

, and would-be beta testers can get a copy of the latest version

here

.

Posted on 13 July 2007 by

Virus Bulletin