Comments on: Windows Live OneCare is crap

By: Gabriel Pizante

Gabriel Pizante — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:38:51 +0000

Look forward to your response.

By: Gabriel Pizante

Gabriel Pizante — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:37:36 +0000

My Live One Care story is a very sad one.To be very brief, my problem with the installation started on February 25 2008 and, after being bounced like a yo-yo between the China (or Taiwan) and India Support Offices I ended up with a continuously restarting system.I had given them control of my computer!
I had to take my system to a professional for repairs. It cost me $150 and I want to claim this from Microsoft. My question: to whom should I write?

I thank you for your help.

By: Francis M

Francis M — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:41:06 +0000

Instead of Windows use OS X or Linux or anything, instead of Windows Live messenger use Yahoo messenger or google talk, instead of one care/virus scanners/spy ware/adware etc. Get a MAC….it’s that easy.

By: Francis M

Francis M — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:36:59 +0000

Glad you posted this, I had the same frustrating experience with a Vista laptop and windows Live one care. I find Windows live one care completely useless and the installation process is just more microsoft retardation. Vista isn’t any better for anyone who used/uses it there are better Operating System’s available. Mac Leopard OS X and Ubuntu Linux are the best for me. Soon as I made the switch to a Macbook Pro with Leopard I noticed the difference, ease, reliability, and freedom of Mac OSX and Linux after I installed it with parallels. Windows ran better on my MAC (I had a copy of Vista lying around after my failed PC upgrade so I figured I would try it) I ended up removing my windows partition within a month becasue even though it ran flawlessly (speed wise) on my MAC it was useless and I never bothered to use it, next to Linux and Mac OS X windows is the last thing you care about. There is a video on you tube that says it all reguarding Vista (windows Cement) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOh6Nh8w6f8

The facts are all there presented in a halarious manner….all funny but totally true. Windows Vista, Windows Live, Windows One Care suck. Save your money and your sanity.

By: Ken Jarvis

Ken Jarvis — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:47:43 +0000

Windows live one Care WORKS AND IS A PROGRAM ALL SHOULD HAVE ON THEIR COMPUTERS

If you have questions - send me an email
LVKen7@gmail.com

I do NOT work for MS
in FACT I HATE MS
but, THIS IS A PROGAM WE ALL NEED.

By: Feorais

Feorais — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:45:31 +0000

Hi There,
As an inexperienced computer user, I have to say that if it messed you guys up, it must be pretty bad!I had been about to install Onecare until I happened on this site. Thank you all very much.Is there anybody out there who can say that any fre registry cleaner is trustworthy?, how about an anti virus programme?
Can anyone tell me how to check if my Netopia Eircom Router has the firewall turned on? Whatever about that, everytime I turn on my laptop I get a message that the Microsoft firewall is turned off. Then I turn it on but next time I start the laptop it is just the same, it has been trned off again,
Thanks a lot

By: RV

RV — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:42:10 +0000

the heck with live care, and windows firewall; zone alarm, avg,spyware blaster, spybot, mozilla, sun java, and blocklists with the host file are are better and more secure solutions to virus/spyware issues.
anything microsoft is picked on and hacked, via active x etc.to use IE is suicide!

By: Marshall

Marshall — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:10:52 +0000

for those having trouble finding where you need to enter your registration key on a box. try the following:
go to your hotmail sign in. if you don’t have an account set one up.
at this point, you can go to onecare button and add a subscription.
select prepaid it’s a little blue link easily missed. then add your key from inside the box. once you have done that you open onecare and go to activate, enter your hotmail name and password and log in.
that is it. on each of the other machines you are installing the software you will not need to enter this key again. you simply use your hotmail account and password in place of it.

By: Marshall

Marshall — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:54:40 +0000

for those having problems with OneCare Live either post install or durring install:
memory error, or OneLive can not open the only fix is remove the software using add and remove in the control pannel, then remove framework 2.0 or 2.1 updated version. go to microsoft webpage and search for downloadable version of framework. save it then run the install. do your windows update after a reboot. then re-download and install OneCare.
Please post back if anyone continues to have a problem after trying this fix.

By: jeff anderson

jeff anderson — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:58:45 +0000

I have been trying to put in my product key for about 3 hours now. This piece of crap sucks so bad you can’t contact anyone to find out how do remedy this. I think they know how bad it is so they dont want to hear about it. I wish I had someone to throw this case and piece of crap at…., but as you know they can’t be found!

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:40:04 +0000

Windows Live One Care has been good to me, altho it does eat up a little memory wise.. most computers come with over 2 Gigs anyways. No problems, on my second subscription.

By: David

David — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:58:36 +0000

Well would appear to me that many of the people reporting problems with it also say that they had to uninstall their other antivirus software to get it to work properly. Surely it should be ridiculously obvious to anyone that running two antivirus packages simultaneously is going to significantly slow down your computer ?!

Not only does each antivirus package have to intercept every byte of code being passed between the harddrive and the system cache, but they also will be both constantly monitoring each other and taking up RAM on startup. Its no wonder there are incompatibilities.

To the people who say onecare is poorly coded, its based on GIANT AntiSpyware which happened to be my favourite antispware at the time microsoft bought them out. That was coded in visual basic ! Microsoft have completely recoded it in C++ and there has been a massive improvement in the performance as a result. They havent runined it, its definitely got better. Personally I find Norton far far slower and more bloated than onecare, onecare is light in comparison !

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:03:37 +0000

I know of no other word for it. Windows live is SHIT! It put almost all of my messages in Junk Mail and bolcked a very important message from my boss! I cannot retrieve the attachment. What the heck are they doing? Do we kill all muslems to get rid of Osama? Is MS nuts? Kill all my mail and prevent viruses. Yeah…sure!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:26:21 +0000

I am having problems as well. I have been on the phone with tech support to help me BUT, unfortunately I had to leave to go pick my daughter up when the guy was in the middle of fixing it. He had gotten onto my computer and did the clean up thing before I had left. He was supposed to call me back but still has not. The number they called me from tho is 1-971-285-3130. They do not speak very good english and it is a voicemail/answering machine that I always get.

By: Cinemagic

Cinemagic — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:03:08 +0000

OneCare is truely crap. The only plus is that it does not slow your system (except for the slowdown as a result of the viruses it lets through). Run a virus scan with OneCare Live and then follow it up immediately with any other virus scanner and see what’s left over. But other virus scanners do indeed slow the system down too much. Even a 3ghz w/4 GB RAM system. Surely someone can get effective virus scanning without saystem slow down.

By: Harry

Harry — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:35:49 +0000

As one who dislikes Microsoft, as well as its founder, as much or more than anyone on the planet, I have to say, OneCare has been one of the best products I have ever had on a PC -AND I HAVE HAD DOZENS OF PC AND MACS AND USED NEARLY EVERY COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE OUT THERE. I began using OneCare when it was a free BETA and have had 2 renewals on my liscence and I use it on 3 computers. When Microsoft says get the other brand protectors off the machine, they mean it! I had to, too. Trend Micro, McAffee, SpyBuster, all had to go. But short of interference from those programs, I have encountered Z E R O problems on all 3 computers. You don’t know how hard it is to admit that, but it is the truth, at least, in my experience.For 3 uears now, my 3 PCS remind me of little sleeping babies, sleeping peacfully with their bottles. Do I think Microsoft is up to something? Of course! When have they not been. The question is, am I willing to giive the “hit-man” 50-bucks a year to leave me alone or not, because that what it comes down to. I will alson say that the newer the pc the better OneCare behaves. When I was running older machines, it did not run like it does now with 4gb of RAM and a 3.4Ghz Intel processor. This may also due to OneCare’s improvment, but, at any rate, it likes lots and lots of RAM. My experience has been with XP Home, XP Pro, and XP Media Edition, no Vista yet.

By: jbmooney

jbmooney — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:29:57 +0000

I’ve had one up on OneCare that it apparently installed during a Vista Ultimate update in the middle of the night and actually uninstalled my anti-virus software and replaced it with OneCare.

Has anyone else had this happen to them??

By: Marty

Marty — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:29:39 +0000

This is by far the worst piece of software I’ve ever used in twenty years of computing. For the first five minutes after bootup of XP, it sucks CPU usage to 100% making the PC unusable until it’s done. If you shut it down in task manager, it turns itself back on four times before it finally stops. There should be a class action against MS for releasing this piece of crap. I’m not sure which is worse on my PC, onecare or a virus.

By: Frank I. Garcia

Frank I. Garcia — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:54:07 +0000

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Re: AV Scan ridiculously slow
Was this post helpful ?

I have had the same Issue with slow scans, Not only slow scans, but also telling me that a Trojan was detected but has not been quarantine, without telling me where it was detected or what cam I do to trace it.

Other Issues, This is my third time I have been talked into keeping One Care by the One Care team. But they had me install free AVG, PC Tools, and Lava soft along with the Live One Care. I tried that and the others security systems detected many infections which one care had failed to.

This system would be great but per your team I needed other third party security to make sure it caught all the malware out there. Should I even bother with One care and just USE the others that are effective and use less memory

The second time i was told to un-install the One Care and do a system install and re-install of Live One Care to get it to work.

Last time One of the one care Team spent over 4 hours with me on the phone taking my system apart and re-installing one care. Since he could not get it to work he had me install a new user on my system and transfer all my data over to the other user. What a mess. and its still a mess.

Last time One Care was not checking e-mail attachments , will this be corrected in the new release/

I have plenty of disk space and it uses an ungodly amount of memory at any time of the day, My system is slower than molasses. No I do not have any Mal ware , and scans are Green light nd clean. Why does this use so much memory at any time it is on , not only when scanning. This is a memory hog.

Any solutions to fix all these problems?

My system says Clean and green all the time, run a PC tools on it and I finds malware.

I have been talked into keeping this three times. But It has been a waste of time and money.

The One Care Live team should also try selling used cars, they can do a real good sales job and making one think its my PC that is causing the Issues. thus scanning the way it should,

.. After three times …sorry i was a fool the past three. Learned a lesson. A big hint was when they had me install third party free security ( Three of them) to make sure One Care live was detecting all that it was supposed to? Is this policy to add third party along with One Care?

Before One Care Live I never had issues and my system ran at great speeds.This has been two years of babysiting my security daily.

What would you do after so many documented Issues?

F. Garcia

Since I Installed Live One Care backn in 05 I have had a endless strings of errors , Viruses, trojans, to the point nthat I have uninstalled it three different times. Fist Uninstall was because of viruses, then support adviced me to install three different free anti virus , I had the Free PC Doctor, Free Lavasoft, Free Spyware Doctor, I have earned a lesson, No More One Care Live.
Any Advice what program to use ?
I have 19 other posts on the same Issues over the past few years. LIVE or Dead One Care/

By: Leon

Leon — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:15:20 +0000

A barebones program… I didn’t like the interface in the first place. Looks like they are busy tailoring many pieces under the same cover… I would prefer Norton any time.