A cinch to install and use. | Windows Live OneCare 2.0

Best product available? | Windows Live OneCare 2.0

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	• Windows Live OneCare 2.0 Windows \| Microsoft Software, 2007 average customer review:based on 161 reviews view larger image
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Good all in one but not so good anti-virus

This is the heaven for windows users. With the onecare, I get anti-virus, firewall, malware remover and system maintain tools. It is slightly complicated for my wife (a English / Accounting major auditor) but just right for me (a computer Engineer doing high level research). The tune-up tool, which defrags your disk and check viruses, is good for regular maintain, however, the forced frequency of 4 weeks or more frequent of such tune-ups is a burden for a not-so-frequently used laptop. The onecare let you share local resources, e.g. printers, without any advanced settings - this saves your money on buying a network printer or printer server. The all in one design makes your system tray really neat.

Some complaint, first, its back up is not really efficient, when my system crashed, there looks no efficiently way for me to restore. Second, which is a major defect as an A-V product, and reduced a star from 5, is that it is not a good at detecting non-English based viruses and malwares. There are only English in my systems, however, when I downloaded some packages (which are assumed to be English packages and appeared to be) and wanted to install on my computer, it never says there is a virus but there are actually a batches virus by Chinese programmers. I was with Symentac for 5 years and never get a virus (they detected Russian and Chinese viruses for me), now I started using onecare for 1.5 years and got a batch of virus after 7 years virus free experience. I am trying to clear those (5 so far) viruses by hand with google and apparently I am doing a more effective job than onecare. Last, not that important though, it does not have 64 bit version.

Overall is is a good product, but Microsoft need to put more efforts in it for 30-40 dollars price.

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A cinch to install and use.

I like this product. My only difficulty was getting it out of the packaging, which I finally put in the floor and stomped on, taking care to avoid stomping on the CD. After that, installation was a cinch.

First I uninstalled my trial version, then followed the simple installation instructions, and I was finished in just a matter of a few minutes. One thing I knew for sure from using the trial version of OneCare, and that is that it didn't act like it was the only thing running on my computer, as other security software does. I have tried numerous other types of security software and they have all absolutely driven me crazy with their constant updating or some other demand for my time and attention just when I was in the middle of doing something. OneCare updates, scans, does a back-up to your specified external drive, and even de-fragments, all behind the scenes and at times convenient for you.

I bought this for my fairly new notebook (running Vista) when my time was due to expire on the trial version I had downloaded from Microsoft's Web site. I was pleasantly surprised to find it here for less than I expected to pay -- free with a rebate.

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Best product available?

This is not a great product, but works well with windows. However, it does not help overcome many of the problems that one might encounter with the windows operating system and it brings with it a few frustrations of its own. It blocks a few legitimate programs and is by no means invisisble while it operates.

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This is a very good software. Its very similar to Norton 360 or System Mechanic Enterprise. The only con I can think of it is, it makes your system a bit slowere due to many background activities.

Its a very good product for a decent price.

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decent!

bought it for the price at the time.not a great antivirus but it does the job.

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