Comments on: Could Microsoft OneCare fix Windows?

By: George

George — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:53:51 +0000

I concur with others who see OneCare as the solution to a longstanding performance problem with various versions of Windows. I have installed OneCare for my family on five separate (and some distant) PC's. They all run smoothly on OneCare with no problems. Recently I installed IE8 on my HP laptop (Vista) and it runs just fine as well. Microsoft is on the right track.

By: Jack Thomas

Jack Thomas — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:19:41 +0000

i also have AVG anti virus seems to work great but am tempted to try one care..however i have just down loaded m/soft IE8 BETA…. YIKES..it is slow..way slow even in IE 7 simulated mode
and find NO great benifiets to date..so I'm hoping my new one care goes a bit better.
jack thomas sunshine coast
australia

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 24 May 2008 23:17:06 +0000

OneCare

There is no repair function with OneCare so how good is this package. It lets Tojon download.delf spread thru my system until a reboot is required

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:56:35 +0000

I am with David, memory usage is really the big kicker with me. Most programs just suck it all up, and that's when they are in idle mode.

By: David

David — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:38:25 +0000

I agree that Microsoft is trying to do the right thing with their OneCare product. I'm hesitant to use it since I've come to confide in AVG Security Suite as my preferred AV Software due to the lack of resource hogging as stated above in Norton and McAfee products. I hope to one day switch to LiveOneCare as the potential is limitless.

By: Rob Enderle

Rob Enderle — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:29:44 +0000

You are right Trend Micro does nice work, I run into them more on the corporate side than the consumer side but they have a solid offering regardless. Iâ??ve had a different experience with OneCare, particularly after the last update and personally prefer it, but my piece was more focused on how OneCare should help Microsoft touch more customers and better address their image and customer satisfaction issues. It wasnâ??t intended to be a comparison between security offerings. Another very nice offering comes from Kaspersky Labs; these folks have always impressed the heck out of me.

Thanks for posting!

By: James

James — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:38:18 +0000

My experience with Microsoft OneCare was nto good at all. I found the program actually slowed down my system, was running and updating way too much, plus it's virus definitions were not as up-to-date as the other programs out there. But I agree that a more integrated approach would be better for the OS.

Norton software is a nightmore that locks down your system and makes it unusable. It's bloated and handicaps other software that's installed. McAfee is the same way.

I have found TrendMicros PCCillian works the best. It's non-intrusive, runs silently in the background and is updated often.