Bye bye antivirus and anti-spyware companies.

The beta is currently open

http://beta.windowsonecare.com/prodinfo/Default.aspx

Quote :

"Windows OneCare is a comprehensive PC health service that goes beyond security to take an integrated approach to help protect and care for your computer."

7/21/2005 11:46:46 AM

interesting..just signed up for the Beta

7/21/2005 11:50:26 AM

whoa...I had to fill up a survey and I dunno how to download it.

7/21/2005 11:50:53 AM

it said they send u a download link through email.

7/21/2005 11:52:14 AM

Quote :

"Bye bye antivirus and anti-spyware companies."

are you relating this to internet explorer?

7/21/2005 11:59:44 AM

just signed up, can't wait to give this a try.

7/21/2005 12:04:07 PM

well let's just hope MS doesn't acquire any more spyware companies, or get paid off by any virus writers to ignore their programs, a la Claria
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1835993,00.asp

7/21/2005 12:16:16 PM

yeah i saw that about Claria last week. that's messed up.

7/21/2005 5:38:18 PM

7/21/2005 5:44:17 PM

Windows?

7/22/2005 1:13:42 AM

Hmm, I'll try it out. I hope it's not harder to work with than zonealarm. I do like symantic a.v and, I have no idea how microsoft will be a better viral protection system than them.

7/22/2005 3:54:54 AM

Just got my acceptance email for the program... installing now, but it's taking forever... must be a serious hit on their servers currently.

8/9/2005 9:57:28 PM

8/9/2005 11:32:51 PM

Any performance hits?

8/10/2005 12:02:46 AM

None as of yet that I can tell... Thinking about going for a virus here in a minute on purpose to see how well it handles it...

EDIT: Hehehe, first thing I could think of was to download Sub7 and try to run it. I didn't even get the chance to break it out of the zip file before OneCare started losing it's mind. So far, so good...

[Edited on August 10, 2005 at 1:43 AM. Reason : virus]

8/10/2005 1:35:03 AM

Well, we've taken our first casualties here, being beta software at all. I had a couple of DVD images that had every version of Windows from 1.0 to server 2003 on my hard drive, and when OneCare did it's virus scan, it flagged the 2nd disc into quarantine due to some kind of Anti-CMOS util on the disc. It crapped on me when trying to restore the file from quarantine (from the looks of the output file, probably because it was bigger than 2gbs). Good thing I just burned a copy of that ISO within 24 hours, cause the one on my hard drive is fubarred now.

8/10/2005 11:31:42 AM

Dude

I'd be so thankful to you if I could get my hands on Windows 1.0 through 3.3

8/10/2005 12:00:22 PM

How do you install it?

I just got an email but it says that they'd mail me a CD with the product code...and when I log into beta.microsoft.com I don't see a download link. I just see like 4-5 surveys.

8/10/2005 5:43:51 PM

why would you want that old ass windows stuff gargs?

8/10/2005 5:58:30 PM

^^^^ Somone proper'd it anyway, so that it would fit all on one DVD

8/10/2005 6:20:38 PM

You cannot download it (as an EXE anyway). It gets installed via an activex control a lot like windows update.

8/10/2005 10:14:19 PM

i have like 10 AIO cd's, i guess i'll just have to pass on OneCare or dual-boot

i like storing cd images.

[Edited on August 10, 2005 at 10:42 PM. Reason : .]

8/10/2005 10:41:32 PM

Just got my pack in the mail.

Came with 2 blank CDRs to test the backup functionality.

8/15/2005 7:40:32 PM

Backup dont work for me.

I tried to backup 1.1gb of data. I have 44 gigs free on my primary drive and it complained about not having enough space.

8/31/2005 4:18:12 PM