Joe said:
The latest PC Magazine give a comparison of AV programs and of the 17
programs, MS's Live OneCare was at the bottom. Is it really that bad? At
least I could install in on my Vista box- I couldn't install McAfee.
I don't know the details of the testing performed for the PC Magazine article,
but I can tell you that no a/v product is perfect. OneCare does a decent job of
providing protection, but there have been reports of threats being missed.
Depending on your computing practices, OneCare could be a viable solution for
you. The Microsoft Anti-malware team is responsible for the a/v signature
definitions for OneCare, Defender, and Forefront Security. I am hopeful that
they improve their detection rates so that future comparisons put OneCare at or
near the top of the list, but it isn't there today.
-steve