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Windows Live OneCare 2.0 | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $49.95
Buy New: $16.90
You Save: $33.05 (66%)
New (67) Used (4) from $12.99
Rating:  128 reviews
Sales Rank: 22
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.2 x 1.5
nv:Software Type: Utilities
MPN: C7S-00135
Model: C7S-00135
UPC: 882224495134
EAN: 0882224494274
ASIN: B000V6YPAY
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
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| Features:
| • | All-in-one security 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 |
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Product Description
OneCare helps keep your PC safe and secure while making your life easier. From virus scanning, file backups, to automatic printing sharing of all the PCs in your household, OneCare helps manage it all for you. And it's delivered to you in a smooth, hassle-free package.
In one convenient package, Windows Live OneCare helps protect your computer, uses its optimization features to keep your PC running at its speediest, and even regularly backs up your important files: Protection Plus uses antivirus and antispyware scanners, a managed two-way firewall, and integrated anti-phishing technology to protect your computer from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, hackers, phishing, and other threats. It runs continuously, but you can scan individual files and folders for viruses on demand simply by right-clicking them. You can even scan attachments you receive via Windows Live Messenger or MSN Messenger.
Performance Plus regularly defragments your hard disk, removes any unnecessary files that may clog your computer, and helps ensure important security updates from Microsoft are installed efficiently and on time.
Backup and Restore regularly copies your important files and settings to CD, DVD, external hard disk, network drive, or other data-storage device. Instant Help provides online help anytime you need it, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
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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: Read 123 more reviews...
 Newest and best July 5, 2008
Bruce Chenoweth (Chicago)
Windows Live OneCare 2.0 stays unobtrusive requiring the least effort from the user. I installed it on two laptops with no additional cost. I limited backup to documents and never had to bother with it. I got tired of all the charges and reinstalling problems with Norton Symantec, McAfee and Kaspersky. I have not tried Panda.
Windows Live OneCare 2.0
Windows Live OneCare 2.0 July 4, 2008
Carl (Richland, WA United States)
Received product in mail in a week after ordering. Received the $30 rebate in about a couple of weeks.
Since I already had Live OneCare installed and running no reinstall was needed. Simply used the product key that came with the package to renew my subscription.
Very easy to use.
 Good price - great boot times. July 3, 2008
Ryan M. Przybilla
So far I've had a great experience with OneCare 2.0. The biggest thing for me was that it didn't hurt the performance of my computer after I installed it. I've tried other anti-virus/firewall software and they have all hurt the performance of my machine especially during boot. It also was very easy to install and configure.
There are a few things I don't like about it. The backup utility only lets you select backing up your machine daily, weekly, every 2 weeks or every 4 weeks. I would like this to be more flexible. Also, I haven't found a way to configure the tune-up process, I really don't want to defrag every time I go through tune-up. Tune-up also doesn't have much flexibility on when it is done, every 1, 2, 3, or 4 weeks. Finally, the packaging is horrible.
Overall I've been very happy with it and I think it is great product.
A good product July 2, 2008
M. Zingsheim (Milwaukee, WI)
Microsoft OneCare is a good product by a good manufacturer. It's not great but it seems to do the job I need it to do. I think it's a good product for an individual of average or below average technology awareness to help protect them. The impact on resources is fairly low with the exception of the requirement for Windows Update on XP. I have Windows Vista and XP stations in my circle.
 Good, but not great... July 1, 2008
Robert L. Stinnett (Boonville, MO)
I had originally thought of getting this product for our son who is off to college in the fall. Right now all of our household computers are hooked into Microsoft Windows Home Server OEM so our anti-virus and backups are centrally managed. However, when he leaves for college that won't be an option for him. I wanted something that was easy to use and didn't bog his laptop down. Unfortunately, although OneCare is a good product, it just didn't fit the bill.
First off, let me say the product has a lot of nice features -- including automated backups, firewall, anti-virus and more rolled into one thing. However, as I've learned in the past, sometimes rolling too many features into a product can give you a less than stellar offering. It's hard to be the "best" in every category -- and I think this is where OneCare suffers.
I found the Firewall to be terribly annoying. I prefer to leave software-based firewalls turned OFF because hardware-based firewalls are much more reliable. When I did this I got not one, but two red icons in my task area on Windows XP that would not go away. Unlike the built-in firewall with Windows XP/Vista, turning OneCare's firewall off does not give you the option to ignore the condition and remove the red icons. In this way I felt the program was way too demanding to be wanting to do everything when all I wanted was a subset of its features.
Next, I noticed that the backup feature of OneCare and the backup feature of Windows Home Server was not integrating correctly. The product states that it "recognizes" the backup feature of WHS, but I found out that two backups were trying to occur every night. I searched around some and couldn't find any real documentation or options for fixing the problem.
The anti-virus feature worked well, and in fact seemed to run just a bit faster than my current anti-virus program, Avast. Updates happened automatically and it was pretty much non-intrusive. No complaints there.
There were other features that would be handy for novice users, such as cleaning up the temporary files that Windows and IE seem to leave around as well as a feature to scan your system for missed updates, etc. Again, these are features a novice user might enjoy so they don't have to manage their computer as much.
However, my overall impression was that OneCare is "good" but just doesn't make it into the "great" category. I'd say if you have one or two PC's without a home network then this program will work for you just fine. If you are a more tech-savy computer user then you'll probably find yourself fighting the program more than getting a lot of value out of it.
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