OT: OneCare updated to include linkage with Windows Defender

[Bill Sanderson]

Today's OneCare update (which required a reboot, with no advance notice, and
which disabled antivirus protection until that reboot was accomplished :
( )

Added: Under Protection Plus in the main page
Antispyware: Windows Defender Last Updated (date) > Scan for spyware
(link)
In View or Change Settings, there is now an Antispyware tab, which allows
turning Antispyware reminders on (recommended) or off. There's a link to "
What should I know about Windows Defender? which leads to this not very
interesting page:

http://beta.windowsonecare.com/support/help.aspx?query=PROC_configure_spyware.htm

When I click the link Scan for spyware, it appears to initiate a
quickscan--that's probably my setting.


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[Guest]

I'm planning to install Window Onecare Live. I have Window Defender installed
right now, Do i need to uninstall Window Defender?

 

[Guest]

also like to find out wether i need to install Net Framework 2.0 on my
computer? it's available on Microsoft optional update but i still haven't
install it.

 

[Stephen Boots MVP-MSN Client]

Today's OneCare update (which required a reboot, with no advance notice, and
which disabled antivirus protection until that reboot was accomplished :
( )

Added: Under Protection Plus in the main page
Antispyware: Windows Defender Last Updated (date) > Scan for spyware
(link)
In View or Change Settings, there is now an Antispyware tab, which allows
turning Antispyware reminders on (recommended) or off. There's a link to "
What should I know about Windows Defender? which leads to this not very
interesting page:

http://beta.windowsonecare.com/support/help.aspx?query=PROC_configure_spyware.htm

When I click the link Scan for spyware, it appears to initiate a
quickscan--that's probably my setting.

The new version of Windows OneCare that includes a hook to Defender
and installs it for users of WOC that do not already have Defender in
place was released only to private beta testers today. It will be
released to the public beta testers in the very near future - perhaps
as early as tomorrow, unless a serious defect is encountered by the
managed/private beta testers.
-steve
WOC Forum Moderator
http://forums.microsoft.com/windowsonecare/default.aspx?siteid=2

p.s. I haven't seen it yet on my machines running WOC. So, you're
ahead of me, Bill!
-steve

 

[Eric Cross]

Yes, I got the update for OneCare too. I didn't release the new Antispyware
tab.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Very sorry about that--I've seen it on a couple of machines, but here at
home--hadn't been into any client offices today, so I didn't notice that I
was getting it and no one else was.

Good that it will be released more broadly soon then.

For users with questions about OneCare, I recommend OneCare's web sites, and
their support forums:

http://forums.microsoft.com/Windowsonecare/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=28&SiteID=2

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[Bill Sanderson]

Check these questions out at the OneCare forum:

http://forums.microsoft.com/Windowsonecare/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=28&SiteID=2

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[Guest]

Windows Defender Live (Beta), help needed from Microsoft.
Except for the new download Signature Version 1.14.1314.1, all previous
versions have fallen into a loop to High Priority Definition Update
1.14.1314.1 for Beta Windows Defender (KB915597). The users of the Windows
OneCare Live (Beta) have downloaded automatically the file in excess of 54
times, as per the Update History, with no positive results. Previous results
of the Windows Defender (Beta) Definition Updates that worked are:
1.13.1276.3, 1.13.1272.4, 1.13.1276.16, 1.13.1282.6 and 1.13.1386.1 with KB
892519, 892519, 892519, 915597 and 915597 respectively. The loop failure
started when trying to update to 1.13.1288.5 and 1.13.1314.1 both with
KB915597, from older Signature Versions. Worst of all, no removal of the
Defender beta is possible nor installation of the newer 1314 version ontop of
the other.
Microsoft, please read also the many complains in the Discussion Groups Home