Microsoft OneCare Live
This is a review of Microsoft's new Windows OneCare Live which I have been truing out for a couple days.
I have always had a virus scan program for free, I run Windows automatic updates, there is already a defragment feature, and windows already has a built in system for backing up your files (this is different from the system restore). So why would you even bother with this program?
Well, first of all, right now it's free! That's a plus for everyone. The downside is that eventually (probably once it's out of beta) it looks like they will charge for yearly subscription (according to this page they send you to if you try to do it with Firefox).
It is a really nice program though despite the fact that it crashed my system pretty bad (becasue I had 2 virus scan programs running at the same time). The reason I would reccomend going through all the trouble to use this program even though most people already have all the features in it is one word: integration. It takes all of those features listed above (virus scan, defragment, file backup, and windows update) and makes them seamless and easy. You can schedule its Tune-up however you schedule it and it will just take care of your system.
The file backup is my favorite part because the one built into window sucks bad! This makes it easy and it's scheduled. You can back up to external devices and removeable media and make sure all your files are safe. The virus scan seems pretty thorough since it found all the old virus email files that I never opened or deleted and has a good system for locking them down and keeping you from unleashing them on your system. OneCare also integrates the Windows Firewall, but I haven't really looked at that yet.
So yeah, it has my two thumbs up especially since it has even more features coming. I guess we'll have to wait and see how much it costs.
I have always had a virus scan program for free, I run Windows automatic updates, there is already a defragment feature, and windows already has a built in system for backing up your files (this is different from the system restore). So why would you even bother with this program?
Well, first of all, right now it's free! That's a plus for everyone. The downside is that eventually (probably once it's out of beta) it looks like they will charge for yearly subscription (according to this page they send you to if you try to do it with Firefox).
It is a really nice program though despite the fact that it crashed my system pretty bad (becasue I had 2 virus scan programs running at the same time). The reason I would reccomend going through all the trouble to use this program even though most people already have all the features in it is one word: integration. It takes all of those features listed above (virus scan, defragment, file backup, and windows update) and makes them seamless and easy. You can schedule its Tune-up however you schedule it and it will just take care of your system.
The file backup is my favorite part because the one built into window sucks bad! This makes it easy and it's scheduled. You can back up to external devices and removeable media and make sure all your files are safe. The virus scan seems pretty thorough since it found all the old virus email files that I never opened or deleted and has a good system for locking them down and keeping you from unleashing them on your system. OneCare also integrates the Windows Firewall, but I haven't really looked at that yet.
So yeah, it has my two thumbs up especially since it has even more features coming. I guess we'll have to wait and see how much it costs.
posted by prozaciswack at
9:26 AM
1 Comments:
well that is a silly question...if not a stupid one. Many files on a computer cannot be just deleted because they are normal files that have been infected by a virus. Therefore, just completely deleting them could very quick make your system inopperable and useless. There is usally no reason to delete them anyway, espcially if that file actually is not a virus.
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prozaciswack, at 15/1/06 12:41 PM
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