Windows Live OneCare

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• Price: Free to try (90-day free trial);
• Operating system: Windows XP
• Date added: May 03, 2006
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• Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 102 votes
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• Average user rating: 3.4 stars out of 102 votes
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• 4 stars

  36 out of 42 people found this review helpful

  Version: Windows Live OneCare

  "Above average"

  by slappybones on May 5, 2006

  Pros: It uses the old RAV antivirus, which was very good, the firewall is probably the easiest I have ever found, when you open any even slighly popular program it will tell you that Microsoft is aware of the program and has allowed access. You can also customize the firewall to ask about all inbound and outbound programs.

  OneCare also has an automated backup to CDR or CDRW which you can schedule for anytime. Windows Defender is also a part of the program.

  Of all the security suites I have tried, OneCare is far and away the easiest.

  Cons: Microsoft users will have to pay for this suite, alot of people think it should be free. It can be purchased for $19.95 until june 1st I think. After that it goes up to forty dollars.

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• 2 stars

  43 out of 67 people found this review helpful

  Version: Windows Live OneCare

  "I'm not paying!"

  by tycobb09 on June 14, 2006

  Pros: So finally ms stepped up and started supporting us.

  Cons: There are free ones that do a better job

  get :

  avast anti-virus

  ad-aware/spybot

  kerio or zone alarm firewalls

  all for free and you basically have this entire package and they do a better job.

  They want me to pay to fix what should be free.Microsoft makes it easy to attack us with spyware,malware and viruses and then want's us to pay for the protection.It should be free.What a monopolizing company.

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• 5 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: Windows Live OneCare

  "Best Ever Ive Tried"

  by pctech5189 on August 10, 2007

  Pros: Very fast. Very light on system resources. This is very powerfull. Highly recommended for the price. DONT GET MCAFEE!

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• 5 stars

  Version: Windows Live OneCare

  "The Master Blaster"

  by hiqutipie on November 23, 2007

  Pros: Live Onecare is first of all light on the PC & makes it work faster & easier...I am very surprised that it is rated & reviewed so poorly & that it is not one of the more popular Antivirus Software...To me its just amazingly smooth and when it sees a trojan it goes to work right away to get rid of it which I must have on the PC before I got Onecare...

  Norton though it did its job of protection while I had it....It was very heavy on the PC in that it took the PC 20 minutes just to load up & just made it slower.. When I uninstalled it, it was like unloading 100 extra pounds off the pc's shoulders. Now it runs smooth & fast & it has the tools of Live Onecare to manage & maintain it... Very Cool Live Onecare...I Am Impressed....

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• 4 stars

  1 out of 2 people found this review helpful

  Version: Windows Live OneCare

  "not bad at all"

  by uksurfer on September 15, 2007

  Pros: a friend of mine recently got infected with zlob,despite having norton and spy sweeper installed.the two programs didnt detect it.instead of following my advice to download a special tool to remove zlob he downloaded this instead,and to my suprise it removed zlob in no time at all.i have to say i was very impressed.

  Cons: i havent got this myself as i have dial up and its not too effective with dial up.which is a shame as i would get it if it did.

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