Re: Microsoft OneCare Beta

There are other antivirus programs that are not so bloated. I use Eset's NOD32, which uses very few resources and is fast ... also very good. You might also look into Kaspersky. Panda is another bloated av app, unfortunately. Once upon a time, it was fast.

Regards,

Margaret

jtz wrote:
ok. three of you have said "negative" things about onecare. i still have norton on and will leave it that way; but i hate the long wait for my desktop to come up. i absolutely hate it!
jtz


"Jim" wrote:

"jtz" <judydisplayname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:D917B97F-B033-4235-B4B8-7939C62B419C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
i know this about onecare. it makes my desktop settings come up a lot faster
than norton does. 15 seconds with onecare. over a minute with norton. onecare
makes that one thing GREAT to me. i'm going to stick with onecare.
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jtz
So, you would prefer getting your desktop going faster to getting rid of malware? OneCare Beta is a program whose time has not yet arrived.
Jim

"jtz" wrote:

i decided to try it because it was microsoft. i wanted to believe that it was
going to be wonderful. i'm going to take it off now and put norton back on.
thank you so much!
--
jtz


"jtz" wrote:

I need a little advise:

I just loaded the Microsoft OneCare Beta (free right now). The download
required me to uninstall Norton in order to load OneCare. For the last
several days, I've let OneCare take care of the computer. I don't know if I'm
supposed to reload Norton or not. A friend said that she doesn't think
OneCare is doing everything to protect us from everything. I disagree
(Ithink)!

What would you do?

jtz


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