http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-ditching-onecare-for-freebie/ Upgrade Your Lifestyle Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:30:12 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-ditching-onecare-for-freebie/#comment-57685 Pat Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:57:33 +0000 #comment-57685 I wouldn't say it was a resource hog. It was just useless. A friend of mine ditched McAfee for Onecare (idiot) because it was lighter.<br /> He has now had to reformat his laptop to reinstall Vista because of a simple trojan he cannot get rid of. And here is the clincher: Onecare detected it, but failed to do a thing.<br /> Fantastic work, MS.<br /> Nearly all of their security programs end up free anyway (Windows Defender, anyone?) I wouldn't say it was a resource hog. It was just useless. A friend of mine ditched McAfee for Onecare (idiot) because it was lighter.
He has now had to reformat his laptop to reinstall Vista because of a simple trojan he cannot get rid of. And here is the clincher: Onecare detected it, but failed to do a thing.
Fantastic work, MS.
Nearly all of their security programs end up free anyway (Windows Defender, anyone?)

]]> http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-ditching-onecare-for-freebie/#comment-57686 James Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:43:26 +0000 #comment-57686 OneCare was an awful program that never seemed to work right. It hogged resources and seemed to always have problems. OneCare was an awful program that never seemed to work right. It hogged resources and seemed to always have problems.

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