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Windows Live OneCare 2.0
List Price: $49.95
Our Price: $34.99
Your Save: $ 14.96 ( 30% )
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Manufacturer: Microsoft Software
Average Customer Rating: Average rating of 3.5/5Average rating of 3.5/5Average rating of 3.5/5Average rating of 3.5/5Average rating of 3.5/5

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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Microsoft
EAN: 0882224494274
Feature: All-in-one security from Microsoft protects personal and financial documents from the latest viruses, worms, hackers, spyware, and online identity scams
Format: DVD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Microsoft Software
Manufacturer: Microsoft Software
Model: C7S-00135
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: Microsoft Software
Release Date: 2007-11-15
Special Features: nv:Software Type^Utilities
Studio: Microsoft Software

Features
All-in-one security 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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Editorial Reviews:

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

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  • 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.



Spotlight customer reviews:

Customer Rating: Average rating of 1/5Average rating of 1/5Average rating of 1/5Average rating of 1/5Average rating of 1/5
Summary: Nice for Gradama but not for Me
Comment: It took FOUR DAYS to do a virus scan (yes, I do have 800gb of storage). And it did find a Trojan! Thank goodness. But, it would not tell me which file it was in. No way to get the filename.

I bought it for backup (since they took away the fair but functional backup that came with XP). There is no treeview checklist for backup, no way to exclude or include entire directories. Instead you get to say things like "Financial Files". I have files named .XYZ what does it think those are?

After I courrpted a few files I thought I would try out the restore function. "Enter Filename". Huh? I want to restore a whole subdirectory, and I dont recall the fargin filenames cuz the files are gone now. Again, no treeview checklist for restore. But you can view the list of all files sorted by name. Remember I have 800gb, that was a joy.

This may be nice for grandma, but not for me. Give me back the old "free" backup that came with XP and I'm happy.

Customer Rating: Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5
Summary: Windows One Care is all right
Comment: It may not be fancy or the best on the market but it works well with the operating system and does not slow my computer down like other products.
The periodic optimizing/backup feature is really nice.

Customer Rating: Average rating of 2/5Average rating of 2/5Average rating of 2/5Average rating of 2/5Average rating of 2/5
Summary: Microsoft's' Folly
Comment: It was quite a struggle to go through my Excel assignment. And not because of its complexity. But because of the Microsoft Live OneCare anti-virus & firewall.

While it was on, it would compromise collaboration features of Excel, besides bringing other havoc ! Only after a lot of hassle, like uninstalling the entire suit, I by chance run into the posting about apparent conflict of MS OneCare & Excel

I did have same problems with using certain features of QuickBooks software, but Intuit is Microsoft main competitor and it might not have much incentive to make its anti-virus software run with it. However it's inconceivable that the Microsoft's own anti-virus suit would be so incompatible with Microsoft's flagship application - Excel !

The reason I've changed from MacAfee to One Care is for greater compatibility, but what did I got ? However that's nothing new about Microsoft' modus operandi, my Zune isn't compatible with Microsoft's own DDR Format either.

It doesn't bring me joy to bash Microsoft, neither I am an Apple fanboy, but from what I am hearing from friends and family members who work at Microsoft, Microsoft is ruthless in criticizing its employees and automatically fire 10% of the bottom ranked employee, even if they do a satisfactory job.

Apparently this "dog-eat-dog" corporate culture, in which employees are expected to work overtime, and often are brought to tears by blunt remarks of their stressed-out bosses, doesn't help produce interoperable, reasonably bug-free products, in a timely fashion.

Perhaps adopting a more collegial, compassionate & less tense corporate culture would bring better results? Since employees who are treated with respect are much more likely to go an extra mile (like noticing & fixing bugs that they aren't responsible to notice & fix), than those who don't.


Customer Rating: Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5
Summary: MicroSoft OneCare
Comment: I purchased this program due to it being made by Microsoft, I felt since it was a MicroSoft program it shouldn't clash with the MSXP. It also was more reasonably priced than Norton which also seems to slow my pc down just is goes out of date.

Customer Rating: Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5
Summary: Newest and best
Comment: Windows Live OneCare 2.0 stays unobtrusive requiring the least effort from the user. I installed it on two laptops with no additional cost. I limited backup to documents and never had to bother with it. I got tired of all the charges and reinstalling problems with Norton Symantec, McAfee and Kaspersky. I have not tried Panda.
Windows Live OneCare 2.0


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