onecare to panda antivirus

[Mark Hall]

ok so I have been running windows live onecare since it first became
available to public beta and the other day I got a message that my free
trial was about to run out. now I couldn't afford $50 so I went looking for
something a little cheaper. I got a great deal on panda antivirus so I got
that one.

my question is I have uninstalled onecare and went to install panda but it
wont let me install it because it says that onecare is installed.

how do I get it to install as I cannot find onecare on my machine, its not
in add/remove programs and its not in program files. so I don't understand.

any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance

Mr M A Hall

 

[Pez D Spencer]

panda is absolute garbage.

sorry to break it to you.

 

[Mark Hall]

well what do you recommend that is cheap?



panda is absolute garbage.

sorry to break it to you.

 

[PA Bear]

You'd be best off posting about this to one of the OneCare Forums, Mark
(e.g., Windows Live OneCare General):
http://forums.microsoft.com/windowsonecare/default.aspx?siteid=2

 

[Pez D Spencer]

i don't have any specific recommendations.

i know people have had good luck with EZAntivirus by Computer
Associates (relatively cheap). i liked NOD32 when i had it
installed--it was the fastest AV by far. trend micro is quality, but i
don't remember how much it costs.

i used to work for a computer hardware/software retailer and a rep had
given me panda 2005 to test out because we didn't carry it. i went
ahead and uninstalled trend micro, installed panda, and that's when the
trouble began. it slowed my computer to a crawl. a startup to desktop
that would normally take under 20 seconds wouldn't complete in under
three minutes. on top of that, i had to look at this cartoon panda
bear on the shutdown screen during all the restarts to see what was
going on.

anyway, i uninstalled it and told the rep that panda software was
exactly the kind of stuff they sold at best buy that makes everyone
think there's a problem with windows and scream that microsoft sucks.
we never carried that. it was an entertainingly loud argument in the
middle of the store.

when windows detects that there's no AV installed, you can click on the
recommendations and there'll be a whole slew of free trial offers. you
could try a bunch of different ones before committing.

 

[LVTravel]

I'm the second one to endorse not purchasing Panda software. I had a 5
machine license for that product and it worked great for about 5 months.
One by one each machine I owned had the antivirus portion of the software
fail to load. Panda's representative told me to uninstall and reinstall it.
Well, I did and it failed to update its virus definition list and failed to
load the antivirus. Then another machine did the same thing. Then the
remaining 3 machines also failed. One was a fresh install of Windows XP Pro
on a home server. They said that there was other antivirus operating on it.
Nothing other than Panda was installed after loading the OS to make use of
its firewall prior to updating Windows. I did run all spyware checks
(SpyBot, AdAware and also Norton and Trend Micro's virus check to make sure
the machines were virus free also.

After complaining and trying all the fixes that they recommended, they
stopped emailing me (basically cut me off from customer service) and also
refused to refund any money for the failed product.


AVG free is now on all my machines and seems to catch everything.


..

 

[Greenfruit]

No one still answered you about uninstall Onecare, see ?
Neither me.
But I have Panda since two years ago and I am very pleased
with it.
Regards.

 

[Alias]

well what do you recommend that is cheap?

Avast, http:/www.avast.com/ Free.

Alias

 

[Mark Hall]

ok then having read all that about panda i dont think im gonna go with it.
ill have a look round and ill definatly try that free one. but as to my
problem with onecare, how can i get rid of all traces of it. i have ran
searches all over my computer in my registry and system files but there is
nothing there.


ok so I have been running windows live onecare since it first became
available to public beta and the other day I got a message that my free
trial was about to run out. now I couldn't afford $50 so I went looking for
something a little cheaper. I got a great deal on panda antivirus so I got
that one.

my question is I have uninstalled onecare and went to install panda but it
wont let me install it because it says that onecare is installed.

how do I get it to install as I cannot find onecare on my machine, its not
in add/remove programs and its not in program files. so I don't understand.

any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance

Mr M A Hall

 

[Larry Samuels]

Seconded.

Avast, http:/www.avast.com/ Free.

Alias

 

[Alias]

ok then having read all that about panda i dont think im gonna go with it.
ill have a look round and ill definatly try that free one. but as to my
problem with onecare, how can i get rid of all traces of it. i have ran
searches all over my computer in my registry and system files but there is
nothing there.


ok so I have been running windows live onecare since it first became
available to public beta and the other day I got a message that my free
trial was about to run out. now I couldn't afford $50 so I went looking for
something a little cheaper. I got a great deal on panda antivirus so I got
that one.

my question is I have uninstalled onecare and went to install panda but it
wont let me install it because it says that onecare is installed.

how do I get it to install as I cannot find onecare on my machine, its not
in add/remove programs and its not in program files. so I don't understand.

any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance

Mr M A Hall

Download Crap Cleaner from www.ccleaner.com (free) and run both the
clean up and the registry issues.

Alias

 

[GaryE]

No one still answered you about uninstall Onecare, see ?
Neither me.

YOu can get Live OncCare at Amazon for $19.95

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...61063-8432724?v=glance&s=electronics&n=507846

In installs fine. The CD just directs you to the download web site.
You have to have (or register) for Microsoft OnePass or Hotmail. No
biggie. Use you email address and password from OnePass to get the
download and you use the same email and password to download you other
two licenses on different machines. I didn't quite get that when I
started to install for my wife's Pc, so I called Microsoft support,
got right in, talked to a person (not a Voice Response) who
transferred me to another person and cleared up how to do the second
and third copies. Try that with anyone else. I had EZ Armor for a
year (and I'm not a novice, but not an expert either) and the ZA Pro
firewall started blocking me about month 10 and I un installed it and
put in Zone Alarm free for a while. I also installed AVG free and
then I didn't like the lack of scheduler and so I installed another
Avast. It ran OK as did AVG.

The 2005 EZ AV had actually run OK and I was going to 'renew" with
CA which requires a complete un install and new install. I did that
and had nothing but problems with both AV and firewall. The AV real
time portion started blocking my Mailwasher. A scan made my PC have a
fairly noticeable clicking noise which I thought my hard disk was
going, but it wasn't. Then I hit Windows No Disk error message which
didn't want to close. As for blocking Mailwasher, I suppose it was
so sensitive to any email downloads that everything looks like a
potential. So it just shut Mailwasher down. Bye Bye CA.

I had bought Live OneCare from Amazon so I installed it. It went
fine. I did not enable the backup as I have Retrospect. The AV found
virus which everyone else missed EZ Armor AV, AVG, and Avast.
Three of them were actually in a old Hot Mail deleted folder from 3
years ago that I had left on my PC. A fourth was in a file called
APIHookdll.dll, which if its a MS API, will reinstall it after my
deletion and if its not, then it's gone anyway. So far so good. I
may have to give up Diskkeeper in favor of the MS defrag which I
understand is the XP defrag,,,,

Good luck,
GaryE