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Windows Live OneCare 2.0 Up to 3 Users

Price: $49.95

 

Product Features

• All-in-one security for up to 3 Users from Microsoft protects personal and financial documents from the latest viruses, worms, hackers, spyware, and online identity scams
• Automate "janitorial tasks," including disk cleaning and defragmentation, to help improve PC performance
• Easily back up your files to a CD, DVD, external hard drive, locally networked computers, or most USB-connected storage devices
• Protect your PC from outside security threats while keeping things on the inside running smoothly
• Works with Microsoft Update to help ensure that your computer is up-to-date with the latest security and critical updates

 

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Windows Live OneCare is the all-in-one PC security and performance service designed specifically for Windows XP and Windows Vista-based operating systems. It helps keep your PC's internal workings in order and protect it from outside security threats.

Protection for your files and information
Automatically helps protect personal and financial documents, music, photos, whatever you're saving--from the latest viruses, worms, hackers, spyware, and online identity scams.

Performance tune-ups
Automates "janitorial tasks," including disk cleaning and defragmentation, to help improve PC performance.

The all-in-one PC security and performance service designed specifically for Windows XP and Windows Vista-based operating systems.

Data back-up and restore
Makes it easy to back up your files to a CD, DVD, external hard drive, locally networked computers, or most USB-connected storage devices.

Your PC's Best Friend
OneCare helps protect your PC from outside security threats while keeping things on the inside running smoothly. OneCare includes:

• Antivirus and Antispyware
• Anti-Phishing
• Managed Firewall
• Data Backup and Restore
• Performance Tune-ups

All-in-One

All-in-one security service

• Virus and spyware protection helps shield your PC from contamination. Real-time scans identify and clean infected files and help protect your computer against pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other potentially unwanted software.
• Phishing filter in Internet Explorer 7 is activated to help detect and block known sites for online ID scams and theft.
• Firewall helps keep hackers out and private information in.

Boosts PC performance

• Tune-ups keep your PC running smoothly.
• Automatic disk cleanup, defragging, file backup and recovery on your schedule.
• Scheduled backups to CD, DVD, external hard drive, locally networked computers, or most USB-connected storage devices.
• Restores specific or all backed-up files.

One subscription

• Helps protect and maintain one, two, or three computers for one price for one year.

Automatic

Automatic protection

• Runs continuously behind the scenes while you're using your PC.
• Helps counteract new virus threats and block new harmful applications.

Automated PC tune-ups and maintenance

• Helps keep your PC running quickly and efficiently.

Automatic updates

• New feature and version upgrades included for as long as you keep your service active.
• Works with Microsoft Update to help ensure that your computer is up-to-date with the latest security and critical updates from Microsoft.

Simple

Task Bar Icon

• Always shows your PC's health status

  Green means your PC status is Good.

  Yellow means your PC status is Fair.

  Red means your PC is At Risk.

• One-click resolutions make it easy to take the necessary action to get and stay green.

Helpful

The OneCare Advantage:

• Unlimited, free Windows Live OneCare phone, email, and chat support.
• Automatic version and feature upgrades for as long as you keep your subscription active.
• Continuous technology improvement to combat emerging threats.
• Each OneCare subscription helps protect and maintain up to three Windows XP or Windows Vista-based PCs for one year.

 

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Customer Reviews

Micheal Hunt Said: Good for some, annoying to others. ( Aug. 15th 2010 )

I found myself needing a new Anti-Virus program when every time I was clicking on such programs like Yahoo Messenger! I would get bombarded with ads and pop up windows to XXX sites etc. Neither Ad-aware or Spybot could find anything, and my AntiVirus was detecting nothing. I also found myself not being able to use the internet after a while of trying to figure out what had installed itself... so without another computer near by, I had to buy something.

I figured if somethings made by Windows, I couldn't go wrong, right? I installed this program after I purchased it, and I was very happy that it did actually find the root of the problem, and got rid of it for me. But what became annoying was, I was getting good protection from malware etc.. but I also noticed my computer was taking about 8 minutes to load up when I would boot it up. I tried googling around for answers by other people this has happened to, but even after trying what information was available, it made no big difference to the start up time... i'd just get to the windows "welcome" screen, and it would take about 7 minutes for whatever OneCare was doing in the background to finish before I could open any programs without hour glasses and white windows etc..

I thought this possibly might just be conflicting programs, so later down the track I re-installed windows, and added one care to it again. I noticed right away the start-up time was the same, it took about the same 7 minutes to load up everything and let me get on with browsing. I wanted to test if it was One Care doing this, so I completely uninstalled it, booted up again, and guess what? I was on the net within 30 seconds!

Luckily I discovered that the file that had caused me to buy OneCare in the first place could have been easily discovered and moved with just a free program called "MalwareBytes' Anti Malware" program. Instead, I wasted more then I should have on a program that, well, it does the job, but it will cost you your patience if you don't have any.

Also, I installed this program on another computer, and it wanted to download NetFrame (#?), and my computer was running a different version. After a week I had to get rid of OneCare and reinstall windows again because Windows One Care downloaded something, clashed with a Windows update, and I kept getting NetFrame errors whenever I would start up the computer, and various other pop up bugs that when you get down to the bottom of it, even weird messages came up like something about Windows cant remember your saved settings, and was uninstalling the driver for my monitor, a few hundred "restore" uses, and eventually that no longer even helped. The two programs clashed with each other and caused me to have a screwed up computer that needed to be wiped and reformatted. Sure, maybe it was also clashing with other programs, but you would think bugs like this just might be avoidable instead of Microsoft's typical "Use our products, and our products alone"

Overall, with the amount of hassle this program caused, with delayed start ups, and god knows why it needed netframe in the first place that screwed with so many things on my computer, I just can not recommend this program. The one good thing about it was the support team where very consistent with getting back to you ASAP... just too bad they couldn't give me any helpful advice to fix the problem. In the end I just wrote to them, "I'm just going to reinstall windows fresh and be done with this" to which they replied about 10 more times over the next 3 months to assure me my time was still under warranty, and could they be of assistance to give me more unhelpful advice?

Now I see people saying this product is no longer available; good riddance.

B. Schouten Said: this program is expired, don't bother with it! ( Jul. 31st 2010 )

Microsoft has discontinued this program, and offers the new, free program in it's place. Security essentials is the new name. Don't buy this and waste your money. Google the Live One and see for yourself.

L. Mylks Said: Don't buy this product! Go with Norton/Symantec ( Apr. 26th 2010 )

I've read some of the other reviews and I'm stunned. Just stunned that there is ANY gold stars - let alone more than one.

Let's just say that I hold highly suspect anyone who writes a glowing review of this garbage-software. They either are "lite" computer users or they are drinking the Microsoft cool-aid (or taking a mind altering drug). I'm guessing that is was OneCare staff members looking for job security who filled out those posts speaking highly of this product.

The interface is horrible, simply bad, and you, as a user will have to spend added time "learning" it. So if you're into spending those free hours of yours getting used to the way some incredibly poorly skilled user-interface designer at Microsoft has designed things - then great - everyone should have a hobby.

Yeah, when they say this is for 3 computers - it doesn't mean that if you buy two it is for 6 users (and so on)- like one might conclude. Nope. Microsoft in a stellar moment of short-sightedness decided to cripple the software's ability to scale beyond 3 computers - no matter how many licenses you buy. [actually you *can* use this on more than 3 machines; there are "work-arounds", but you will loose the "uber-control"- which is really what this is suppose to do.

So if you happen to be one of those folks who has more than 3 computers, or ever in your life expect you'll have more than 3 computers... then this is not for you (or anyone really). -Just STUPID Microsoft, just stupid.

Like being reminded of stupid things OneCare wants you to do... well good because this is a high-maintenance bit of software. Frequently the software wants you to do things it's way - or it will not allow for the "all clear signal." Flexible it is NOT.

Norton/Symantec offer a competing product which is wwwwwwaaaaaayyyyyy better (and faster) than this (*&^%$#@!). I had to figure this out the hard way. I hope you don't.

If you think I'm joking/kidding/exaggerating... check out how hard they make it to find the "techical support phone number for OneCare" - google it on the web and you'll find tons of angry users complaining about the very fact that you have to spend over 4 minutes and click 36 times through a series of help-dialog boxes (I tested this) before you can be provided a telephone number. Yes, that's right, the user-interface is literally designed to prevent you from finding out what the tech-support number is(!) - so bad is it that when I had the Microsoft trained OneCare tech support staff member go through all the 36 clicks and so-on he got lost and couldn't find where to go to get the number (which would be to call himself more-or-less)...

Don't buy this product. That's really the kindest thing I can say about it to you. I have to manage 7 computers for a home-office and this software has cost me more in added time using and trying to use it than I care to admit. Definitely not worth the money.

Good luck

Robert Maracle Said: Buyer Beware ( Nov. 15th 2009 )

For several years I successfully used Windows Live One Care. I chose however not to allow Microsoft access to an automatic credit card renewal. Consequently every year when renewal was due I would purchase new from Amazon and reinstall. This worked well until this year where after installation I was informed by Microsoft that they were no longer accepting new subscriptions for One Care. Long story short, I was sold by Amazon and Sales, Inc. an out of date, invalid, useless piece of software. When trying to resolve the issue Amazon and Sales pointed their fingers at each other indicating that it was not their problem. They had no problem taking my payment for a worthless product and became deaf when trying to resolve the issue. In fact, when I made first contact with Amazon about the problem, even though their website advised that I would receive a response within 12 hours after 1 week I sent a second message that received a prompt respnse.

Unless you are buying expensive Christmas tree ornaments don't buy One Care.

Roberta P. Armstrong Said: Love this Program!! ( Oct. 21st 2009 )

This is my second year with this product. I love the fact that I can use it one 3 computers. I love that it was easy to network my laptop to our home computer and all of its add-ons ... printer, storage etc. GREAT PRODUCT!!