Windows Live OneCare

Does anyone know if this is any good? I have NOD32 atm and the Vista firewall is completly useless, as I found out all the weird blocking of websites on my computer was down to that firewall... I do have a hardware firewall but two firewalls are always better than one


PSN/Xbox 360 ID - Ianwoollam

If you're getting the firewall to block against hackers, don't bother - the hardware one will be more than enough. If you're getting something to control application access, then I've no idea - Comodo is apparently quite decent, and many still swear by Sygate Pro, even though it's not been updated since Symantec bought it in 2005 or something.

Personally, I don't bother - just use the hardware one on my Draytek router.

I did read that the OneCare virus detector came last in a recent test, but I don't trust them at all - they put Norton top a couple of years ago.... I struggle to think anything can surpass NOD32 for protection from viruses at the moment, especially for the low memory foot-print (if that matters to you).

Before I nuke this installation of Vista in about an hours time that I installed shortly before Christmas I installed antivirus software and a spyware scanner just to see if anything had made its way in. Since then, I've been relying on the routers firewall and left Winders Defender running - that's all, and of course I use Firefox. No viruses, no spyware. If you don't open files like britney.exe they're usually cause more problems than they solve.

Fair enough Just leave it disabled then and have that stupid red shield come up all the time


PSN/Xbox 360 ID - Ianwoollam

I don't have a red shield in Vista? :|

I think he means in the system tray. Vista likes to moan when you turn things off like in XP, except in Vista Microsoft did a good job of hiding the option to turn the moaning off.

Yeah, I know what he meant - I just don't have one

Control Panel > Security Center > Change the way Security Center alerts me > Don't notify me and don't display the icon

And here you go: [news.bbc.co.uk]

Hmmm okay, its useless :D Better avoid that!

lol! didn't notice you could do that! thats useful, ta gav


PSN/Xbox 360 ID - Ianwoollam

Vista complains when you turn things off, but you can turn off the complaints and it stops :P

And i wouldnt trust the BBC on technical issues. They called torrent users terrorists and peadophiles and had to remove the article.

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It's not a BBC test though, they just reported the test, done by [www.av-comparatives.org]

//edit: It still doesn't tell everything, as I said earlier - in that test Norton AV finishes ahead of Kaspersky and NOD32.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/25/2007 03:02PM by gav.

AVG got more than 0.0 too :P Which is really inaccurate :D

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