re: Microsoft Not Happy With Test Results OneCare, Questions Secunia’s Testing Method

someone — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:49:33 GMT

I've tried OneCare on a modern cutting-edge C2Quad machine with Vista SP1, I'd advise any power user to stay away from it. Detection rate might be good, might not be good, but customizability, speed of manual scanning, slow loading UI and all are one of the worst amongst AV/security suite.

re: Microsoft Not Happy With Test Results OneCare, Questions Secunia’s Testing Method

avatar — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:26:12 GMT

I think they are kinda right to be pissed off. there were other antivirus tests and in the consumers level. OneCare 2.5 rocked and ended up Third just below Kaspersky and Avg. it even beat Nod32.

OneCare has been truly improving at a manic pace as a Security suite. it is truly dumb proof and it pretty much does everything for the user once initial configuration. all you would ever need to have. and it is also cheap. you can get it for 30 to 50 dlls a year to use in 3 machines. that is 10-16.66 dlls for machine a year.

That said. there is still room for improvement for many things regarding how integrates with Windows Live Services and how it is going to integrate into special services like Live Sync, Live Mesh, or WHS later. i have been on the beta for it since version 1 so i had never paid for it. now i am hoping beta testing for 3.0 comes in before my current beta runs out.