Microsoft's anti-virus Morro to be released soon?

Microsoft Corp. is preparing to launch a public beta of Morro, the free antimalware it announced last November, according to a report by the Reuters news service. 

Morro will use the same scanning engine as Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft's first consumer-grade antivirus package, and the software that the free software replaces. OneCare is to get the boot June 30, when Microsoft stops selling the program.

According to a Microsoft spokesman who spoke with Reuters, Morro is being tested internally at the company, and will be posted as a public beta "soon." The spokesman didn't offer the news service any further details about a timetable. More...

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