Software : Windows Live OneCare 2.0 (Up to 3 Users)

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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Microsoft
EAN: 0882224495134
Format: DVD-ROM
Label: Microsoft Software
Manufacturer: Microsoft Software
Model: C7S-00135
Publisher: Microsoft Software
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Sales Rank: 49
Special Features: nv:Software Type^Utilities
Studio: Microsoft Software

Features:

All-in-one security for up to 3 Users from Microsoft protects personal and financial documents from the latest viruses, worms, hackers, spyware, and online identity scams
Automate "janitorial tasks," including disk cleaning and defragmentation, to help improve PC performance
Easily back up your files to a CD, DVD, external hard drive, locally networked computers, or most USB-connected storage devices
Protect your PC from outside security threats while keeping things on the inside running smoothly
Works with Microsoft Update to help ensure that your computer is up-to-date with the latest security and critical updates

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Product Description:
OneCare helps keep your PC safe and secure while making your life easier. From virus scanning, file backups, to automatic printing sharing of all the PCs in your household, OneCare helps manage it all for you. And it's delivered to you in a smooth, hassle-free package.
In one convenient package, Windows Live OneCare helps protect your computer, uses its optimization features to keep your PC running at its speediest, and even regularly backs up your important files: Protection Plus uses antivirus and antispyware scanners, a managed two-way firewall, and integrated anti-phishing technology to protect your computer from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, hackers, phishing, and other threats. It runs continuously, but you can scan individual files and folders for viruses on demand simply by right-clicking them. You can even scan attachments you receive via Windows Live Messenger or MSN Messenger.
Performance Plus regularly defragments your hard disk, removes any unnecessary files that may clog your computer, and helps ensure important security updates from Microsoft are installed efficiently and on time.
Backup and Restore regularly copies your important files and settings to CD, DVD, external hard disk, network drive, or other data-storage device. Instant Help provides online help anytime you need it, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

Amazon.com:
Windows Live OneCare is the all-in-one PC security and performance service designed specifically for Windows XP and Windows Vista-based operating systems. It helps keep your PC's internal workings in order and protect it from outside security threats.

Protection for your files and information
Automatically helps protect personal and financial documents, music, photos, whatever you're saving--from the latest viruses, worms, hackers, spyware, and online identity scams.

Performance tune-ups
Automates "janitorial tasks," including disk cleaning and defragmentation, to help improve PC performance.

The all-in-one PC security and performance service designed specifically for Windows XP and Windows Vista-based operating systems.

Data back-up and restore
Makes it easy to back up your files to a CD, DVD, external hard drive, locally networked computers, or most USB-connected storage devices.

Your PC's Best Friend
OneCare helps protect your PC from outside security threats while keeping things on the inside running smoothly. OneCare includes:

Antivirus and Antispyware
Anti-Phishing
Managed Firewall
Data Backup and Restore
Performance Tune-ups

All-in-One

All-in-one security service

Virus and spyware protection helps shield your PC from contamination. Real-time scans identify and clean infected files and help protect your computer against pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other potentially unwanted software.
Phishing filter in Internet Explorer 7 is activated to help detect and block known sites for online ID scams and theft.
Firewall helps keep hackers out and private information in.

Boosts PC performance

Tune-ups keep your PC running smoothly.
Automatic disk cleanup, defragging, file backup and recovery on your schedule.
Scheduled backups to CD, DVD, external hard drive, locally networked computers, or most USB-connected storage devices.
Restores specific or all backed-up files.

One subscription

Helps protect and maintain one, two, or three computers for one price for one year.

Automatic

Automatic protection

Runs continuously behind the scenes while you're using your PC.
Helps counteract new virus threats and block new harmful applications.

Automated PC tune-ups and maintenance

Helps keep your PC running quickly and efficiently.

Automatic updates

New feature and version upgrades included for as long as you keep your service active.
Works with Microsoft Update to help ensure that your computer is up-to-date with the latest security and critical updates from Microsoft.

Simple

Task Bar Icon

Always shows your PC's health status

Green means your PC status is Good.

Yellow means your PC status is Fair.

Red means your PC is At Risk.
One-click resolutions make it easy to take the necessary action to get and stay green.

Helpful

The OneCare Advantage:

Unlimited, free Windows Live OneCare phone, email, and chat support.
Automatic version and feature upgrades for as long as you keep your subscription active.
Continuous technology improvement to combat emerging threats.
Each OneCare subscription helps protect and maintain up to three Windows XP or Windows Vista-based PCs for one year.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Computer security and backups are now a background task.
First encountered Microsoft's Windows OneCare in 2005 as a Beta project that I participated in. Wouldn't have gotten involved except that I had found Symantec's Norton AntiVirus to have become a real resource hog, and the products from McAfee weren't any better, despite their claims. I had been a loyal user of Norton AntiVirus since those days that Peter Norton was still running his innovative company, one that pioneered anti-virus applications as we know them... but that was then, and this was now.

I dropped the Norton products after a series of problems that were well-documented in the 'computer geek' community, and began to install Grisoft's AVG Free anti-virus on some of my systems. About a year later Microsoft released it's Beta test of Windows OneCare, and that seemed to be a product with few bugs and a lot of promise. When the Beta test was over, however, I standardized my computers with AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition, and that continued until late last spring when I saw an associate's installation of Windows Live OneCare 2.0 and listened to his reasons as to why why he had switched from Symantec's products.

Initially I downloaded the trial version from Microsoft to test it out, but within two weeks had become convinced that this was not only a competitively priced product (other products have only recently caught up), but it's resource footprint was small. It didn't seem to interfere with normal operations or offer obnoxious reminders of how my computer was being protected.

Windows Live OneCare runs quietly in the background, doing its job well and quite unobtrusively. It's licensed to be used with up to three users, and right now is protecting my aging HP Pavilion a210n Desktop PC, my son's laptop computer and my notebook. It does a good job of protecting our PCs from outside security hazard while keeping things on the inside running smoothly, performing disk cleaning and file defragmentation in the background. Our files are backed up to a connected Seagate FreeAgent Desktop 250 GB External Hard Drive, and once set up properly has required no intervention whatsoever. All of its updates run quietly via Microsoft Update, and this has kept my systems up-to-date with the important security updates.

Pros:

* Very reasonable cost for what it does.
* Runs quietly and effectively in the background.
* Excellent monthly reports on activity.
* Has an excellent two-way firewall.
* Automated backups to external hard drive or USB storage devices

Cons:

* OneCare interface is different, may seem somewhat awkward.
* Other anti-virus and firewall programs need to be removed.

This product isn't perfect; no security application that I've encountered to date is. The occasional reboots for updates are irritating, but all applications of this type have them to work properly. The Windows Live OneCare interface is different, and may seem somewhat awkward until you get used to it, but it does function properly. Had laughed last spring when I read that OneCare had mistaken Skype (the Internet telephone application) for a piece of malware, but have see similar false reading from almost all of the anti-virus and security applications on the market over time.

The above remarks may sound picky, but they're really not; they're just a personal reflection of what I've found while I've used this product. But all things considered, and especially since it's so well-behaved as it runs quietly in the background, doing its job quite unobtrusively, Windows Live OneCare is a real 5-star application from my perspective.

Rating:

- It's a Great Product!
I have Comcast so I get McAfee for free. Well, I ended up with a virus that practically shut my computer down. After Microsoft helped me get rid of the virus they recommended Live OneCare. They offer a 45 day trial and I really liked it. Compared to Norton and McAfee, Windows has them beat by far and better yet Amazon's price is just about 45% off the regular price. I truely recommend this antivirus. It's programmed to tune up your computer once a month and automatically backs up your files. It's easy to use. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

Rating:

- Don't waste your time installing on an older computer
I thought this would be worth a try since it came included with Qwest DSL service, and reviews here seemed generally positive. It did not work well on my 7-year old system, though. After a couple weeks struggling with it, I finally was able to uninstall it.

First of all, this requires a lot of RAM. My system was doing OK, but getting a bit low on RAM at 384 MB until I installed this. With Windows Live OneCare installed it wanted around 500 MB just to boot up--even while not running anything. So it was using Virtual Memory and paging like crazy, with the CPU pegged at 100%, even after I let it sit for hours, thinking it just needed to run an initial scan. Well, RAM is cheap and it was time, so I went ahead and upgraded to 1 GB (as much as my old motherboard can handle.) That was a lot better. Then the other annoyances began.

I run normally under a limited account, and WLOC was constantly bugging me to allow various processes to access the Internet, etc. To do so I'd have to log out and log in under an adminstrative account. The worst thing was just plugging in a USB flash drive would require an administrative installation--EVERY TIME. That got old in a hurry.

The last straw was it started interfering with proper shutdown of the system. Instead of shutting down, it would just hang. Then after all my other computers had automatically installed this week's critical MS Update, and this one still hadn't, I tried manually installing it by going to [...]. It just hung IE, and wouldn't even open the page. So I decided to uninstall it. Guess what? Control Panel Add/Remove Programs wouldn't come up. Windows Restore wouldn't work because it wouldn't shut down properly. Luckily I found OneCareCleanup.exe via Qwest's help center, and that did the trick. Now all seems well, and I've reinstalled the security software I previously was using.

Bottom line, I wasted a lot of time on this. Microsoft ought to do better. This is bloatware at its worst, as far as I can tell. Maybe it's better on a new machine, but I definitely do not recommend it on an older system.

Rating:

- Totally Worthless Software -Cust No Support comes Standard
I actually bought this product twice and installed it on my desktop, my laptop and my mothers laptop computer. It was seemingly easy to use and I liked the ease of making regular backups to my USB drive. The only problem was the registration: It required an e-mail account with .hotmail or .live. I did not want either of those e-mail addresses, but I created one so that I could register the software. For months and months (over a year), I had no problem scanning and backing up; but when my laptop went south I could not find the name of the e-mail account or the password I had associated with it. I did all the things it said to do on their web-site to resolve the problem, and nothing would let me log in to get help. I could not access the account from any of the three computers it was installed on. I even tried to set up another e-mail account to re-register, but it would not let me re-register with the same product key. There is no e-mail support for people with registratration problems, and I could not find any way to contact a live person via chat or phone to get help. I came to the conclusion that they purposely did not list the needed contact information. I've used several other virus protection software programs in the past, all of which had functional support with multiple contact options. Microsoft took my money, and even sent me e-mails to ask why I was un-installing the program. To this date they have never responded to my requests for help. I left my phone number, and my e-mail address. I promised them free advertising, and here it is: DON'T EVER BUY THIS HORRIBLE SOFTWARE. If you do, be sure to tatoo the e-mail address and password you use somewhere on your body where you can see it. I think this product would be more accurately described as WINDOWS NO CARE.

Rating:

- wrong irem no return
Ordered Windows live Onecare 2.0. Received a"service desk edition" Inter net says this should NOT be the hands of a home user. After two weeks of hassle they say they will NOT pay to have it returned and I told them I was cancelling the charge and they can figure how to get it back. Very arrogant people on the phone. Never again.


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