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7 thoughts on “Goodbye AVG, Hello Windows Live OneCare”

1. I dont think anyone would recommend you using a security suite provided to you by the same company supplier of the operating system.

   1. Well, let’s see…

      Version 2.0 of Microsoft’s security and utility suite protects a PC better. Narasu Rebbapragada, PC World

      OneCare is a solid product at a reasonable price and I highly recommend it for home PC users. Tony Bradley, About.com

      Windows Live OneCare 2.0 is excellent, and I’ll continue using it on all of my PCs. Highly recommended. Paul Thurrott, WinSuperSite.com

      Any further comments, Ed?

2. What’s the sticker price for a subscription? My wife’s Vista notebook is slower than a Daihatsu goin’ up the mountain to Takayama 😛

3. 5,775yen a year, and that covers up to three machines. Don’t let me mislead you though. Scans and backups do slow the computer down, but if you schedule them at suitable times, you can avoid the worst of it. Give the 3-month trial a shot.

   1. Hmm … that’s pretty cheap considering what it does. Online backups are handled by my own custom app (which backs up an encrypted copy of the important files to some extra storage space on my web server), but the others are just as important 🙂

4. Wow, Nick, don’t say I have actually done something right on my computer at last! I must say I have had no trouble at all with my ‘One Care’ protection so far. Let’s hope it continues.

5. Viruses?
   What are those…?

   Oh, that’s right, the things Window PCs get…

   Score a point for Linux! 😛

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   But anyway, for Windows this looks really good (I might buy it for my laptop)!

   Have any of you used threatfire or pc tools. Threatfire (http://www.threatfire.com/) is supposed to be good in combo with a general antivirus program.

   PC Tools was good but I’ve heard Symantec (the dark-side) bought them so I guess that option is gone… 🙁

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