Beefing up Windows Live Onecare antivirus

[Jay Hartigan]

I've just installed Windows Live One care on my version of Vista Business
and I'd like to beef up the antivirus protection. Are AVAST and/or NOD32
compatible with Live One care?

Jay Hartigan

 

[Tom Lake]

I've just installed Windows Live One care on my version of Vista Business
and I'd like to beef up the antivirus protection. Are AVAST and/or NOD32
compatible with Live One care?

If you have one of those, don't use OneCare. I'd only run one anti-virus
program on a system.

Tom Lake

 

[Jay Hartigan]

I have only One Care now. Do I need to consider uninstalling One Care and
buying NOD32 or Bit Defender? I like the backup function and tune up
functions on One Care so I'd rather not uninstall if I don't have to.

Jay Hartigan

 

[Dave B.]

If your that worried about it, install your preferred other AV scanner, but
disable all real-time monitoring/scanning and just do manual scans with it.

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[John Chamberlain]

Or, just do one of the online scans available on occasion...

jc

 

[Hertz_Donut]

I've just installed Windows Live One care on my version of Vista Business
and I'd like to beef up the antivirus protection. Are AVAST and/or NOD32
compatible with Live One care?

Jay Hartigan

Windows Live! OneCare is a joke; less than worthless. Not only does it fail
miserably as an antivirus app:

http://www.networkcomputing.com/channels/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197002946

http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2007/02/07/windows-live-onecare-anti-virus-package-fails-vb100-test/

but it also destroys your email messages:

http://www.appscout.com/2007/03/dont_let_onecare_eat_your_emai.php

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/10/182242&from=rss

With the track record that Windows has with the basic security of it's OSes,
why would you *ever* trust them with the very security of you computer?

Best advice you'll receive this month:

Uninstall Windows Live! OneCare immediately.

Honu