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Microsoft OneCare Beta
I need a little advise:
I just loaded the Microsoft OneCare Beta (free right now). The download required me to uninstall Norton in order to load OneCare. For the last several days, I've let OneCare take care of the computer. I don't know if I'm supposed to reload Norton or not. A friend said that she doesn't think OneCare is doing everything to protect us from everything. I disagree (Ithink)! What would you do? jtz |
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Microsoft OneCare Beta
Well,I wouldn't download this av beta.
It is still BETA which means not already comleted and in pre-release state and also it has the lowest detection rate of ALL antimalware softwares. That's why I would recommend you uninstall it and go on with your Norton unless you really would like to make tests with it. If you decide to keep it ,check your computer once a week using these: Panda Software free Active Scan where you can check your computer for ALL kind of malwa http://www.activescan.com Lavasoft's Ad-Aware SE Personal http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware Panda_man -- Prevention is always better than cure ! Panda TruPrevent - the most intelligent technology to combat unknown malware http://www.pandasoftware.com http://pandaman.hit.bg "jtz" wrote: I need a little advise: I just loaded the Microsoft OneCare Beta (free right now). The download required me to uninstall Norton in order to load OneCare. For the last several days, I've let OneCare take care of the computer. I don't know if I'm supposed to reload Norton or not. A friend said that she doesn't think OneCare is doing everything to protect us from everything. I disagree (Ithink)! What would you do? jtz |
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Microsoft OneCare Beta
From: "jtz"
| I need a little advise: | | I just loaded the Microsoft OneCare Beta (free right now). The download | required me to uninstall Norton in order to load OneCare. For the last | several days, I've let OneCare take care of the computer. I don't know if I'm | supposed to reload Norton or not. A friend said that she doesn't think | OneCare is doing everything to protect us from everything. I disagree | (Ithink)! | | What would you do? | | jtz That was NOT a smart idea ! You just caused yourself more problems than you need. BTW: Are you a PAID Beta Tester ? You were far better off with staying with NAV if you were happy with it. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm |
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Microsoft OneCare Beta
i decided to try it because it was microsoft. i wanted to believe that it was
going to be wonderful. i'm going to take it off now and put norton back on. thank you so much! -- jtz "jtz" wrote: I need a little advise: I just loaded the Microsoft OneCare Beta (free right now). The download required me to uninstall Norton in order to load OneCare. For the last several days, I've let OneCare take care of the computer. I don't know if I'm supposed to reload Norton or not. A friend said that she doesn't think OneCare is doing everything to protect us from everything. I disagree (Ithink)! What would you do? jtz |
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Microsoft OneCare Beta
i know this about onecare. it makes my desktop settings come up a lot faster
than norton does. 15 seconds with onecare. over a minute with norton. onecare makes that one thing GREAT to me. i'm going to stick with onecare. -- jtz "jtz" wrote: i decided to try it because it was microsoft. i wanted to believe that it was going to be wonderful. i'm going to take it off now and put norton back on. thank you so much! -- jtz "jtz" wrote: I need a little advise: I just loaded the Microsoft OneCare Beta (free right now). The download required me to uninstall Norton in order to load OneCare. For the last several days, I've let OneCare take care of the computer. I don't know if I'm supposed to reload Norton or not. A friend said that she doesn't think OneCare is doing everything to protect us from everything. I disagree (Ithink)! What would you do? jtz |
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Microsoft OneCare Beta
"jtz" wrote in message news i know this about onecare. it makes my desktop settings come up a lot faster than norton does. 15 seconds with onecare. over a minute with norton. onecare makes that one thing GREAT to me. i'm going to stick with onecare. -- jtz So, you would prefer getting your desktop going faster to getting rid of malware? OneCare Beta is a program whose time has not yet arrived. Jim "jtz" wrote: i decided to try it because it was microsoft. i wanted to believe that it was going to be wonderful. i'm going to take it off now and put norton back on. thank you so much! -- jtz "jtz" wrote: I need a little advise: I just loaded the Microsoft OneCare Beta (free right now). The download required me to uninstall Norton in order to load OneCare. For the last several days, I've let OneCare take care of the computer. I don't know if I'm supposed to reload Norton or not. A friend said that she doesn't think OneCare is doing everything to protect us from everything. I disagree (Ithink)! What would you do? jtz |
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Microsoft OneCare Beta
ok. three of you have said "negative" things about onecare. i still have
norton on and will leave it that way; but i hate the long wait for my desktop to come up. i absolutely hate it! jtz "Jim" wrote: "jtz" wrote in message news i know this about onecare. it makes my desktop settings come up a lot faster than norton does. 15 seconds with onecare. over a minute with norton. onecare makes that one thing GREAT to me. i'm going to stick with onecare. -- jtz So, you would prefer getting your desktop going faster to getting rid of malware? OneCare Beta is a program whose time has not yet arrived. Jim "jtz" wrote: i decided to try it because it was microsoft. i wanted to believe that it was going to be wonderful. i'm going to take it off now and put norton back on. thank you so much! -- jtz "jtz" wrote: I need a little advise: I just loaded the Microsoft OneCare Beta (free right now). The download required me to uninstall Norton in order to load OneCare. For the last several days, I've let OneCare take care of the computer. I don't know if I'm supposed to reload Norton or not. A friend said that she doesn't think OneCare is doing everything to protect us from everything. I disagree (Ithink)! What would you do? jtz |
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Microsoft OneCare Beta
From: "jtz"
| ok. three of you have said "negative" things about onecare. i still have | norton on and will leave it that way; but i hate the long wait for my desktop | to come up. i absolutely hate it! | | jtz | The biggest problem and which is most tnatable is the Microsoft's anto birus solution has the poorest catch rate in the anti virus Industry. I have run tests with a zoo of infectors I have. Those infectors had been submitted to Microsoft prior to a frecent test which provided a catch rate of only 58%. Imagine what the catch rate would have been if I had NOT previously submitted the infectors to Microsoft. I can recomend many anti virus, some are free and some are not. They all will "blow away" Microsoft's so-called solution. many will also be less resource hogs than Norton AV... AVAST - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1016.html - FREE AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/ - FREE AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 - FREE CA eTrust - http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/index.cfm - FREE for one year. { Free offer extended indefinitely } For other anti virus solutions I suggest Kaspersky and NOD32 in that order. Then Trend Micro, Sophos, BitDefender and Panda. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm |
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Microsoft OneCare Beta
There are other antivirus programs that are not so bloated. I use
Eset's NOD32, which uses very few resources and is fast ... also very good. You might also look into Kaspersky. Panda is another bloated av app, unfortunately. Once upon a time, it was fast. Regards, Margaret jtz wrote: ok. three of you have said "negative" things about onecare. i still have norton on and will leave it that way; but i hate the long wait for my desktop to come up. i absolutely hate it! jtz "Jim" wrote: "jtz" wrote in message news i know this about onecare. it makes my desktop settings come up a lot faster than norton does. 15 seconds with onecare. over a minute with norton. onecare makes that one thing GREAT to me. i'm going to stick with onecare. -- jtz So, you would prefer getting your desktop going faster to getting rid of malware? OneCare Beta is a program whose time has not yet arrived. Jim "jtz" wrote: i decided to try it because it was microsoft. i wanted to believe that it was going to be wonderful. i'm going to take it off now and put norton back on. thank you so much! -- jtz "jtz" wrote: I need a little advise: I just loaded the Microsoft OneCare Beta (free right now). The download required me to uninstall Norton in order to load OneCare. For the last several days, I've let OneCare take care of the computer. I don't know if I'm supposed to reload Norton or not. A friend said that she doesn't think OneCare is doing everything to protect us from everything. I disagree (Ithink)! What would you do? jtz |
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Microsoft OneCare Beta
From: "David H. Lipman"
| The biggest problem and which is most tnatable is the Microsoft's anto birus solution has | the poorest catch rate in the anti virus Industry. | snip Man that was bad... That should have been; "The biggest problem and which is most notable is that Microsoft's anti virus solution has the poorest catch rate in the anti virus Industry." -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm |
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Microsoft OneCare Beta
Today =?Utf-8?B?anR6?= commented courteously on the subject
at hand i decided to try it because it was microsoft. i wanted to believe that it was going to be wonderful. i'm going to take it off now and put norton back on. thank you so much! since when is anything from MS "wonderful"? -- ATM, aka Jerry |
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Microsoft OneCare Beta
that made me laugh out loud. but... in defense of my thinking it (microsoft's
onecare) would be wonderful: i attended my first 'web cast' last week for tips/tricks/techniques on microsoft publisher and i thought it was excellent. i learned more in that 30 minutes, than i would have in days, weeks, months. the guy hit on all the good stuff. i began thinking! ha...that a GIANT like microsoft would do everything (onecare?) to put a stop to the things that are hindering us and taking up a lot of time! i just want to work. "All Things Mopar" wrote: Today =?Utf-8?B?anR6?= commented courteously on the subject at hand i decided to try it because it was microsoft. i wanted to believe that it was going to be wonderful. i'm going to take it off now and put norton back on. thank you so much! since when is anything from MS "wonderful"? -- ATM, aka Jerry |
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