One Care comes in last Vista News Discuss One Care comes in last in the Windows Vista forums; Author: marct Subject: Microsoft concedes: OneCare antivirus software 'not stellar' Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:05 am (GMT 6.00) Topic Replies: 0 Microsoft Corporation yesterday acknowledged poor test ...

[Snuffy]

Author: marct
Subject: Microsoft concedes: OneCare antivirus software 'not stellar'
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:05 am (GMT 6.00)
Topic Replies: 0

Microsoft Corporation yesterday acknowledged poor test results of its OneCare antivirus software, but promised it would do better by paying more attention to malware actually in the wild. Earlier this month, AV Comparatives, a non-profit site that tests the most popular antivirus products, found OneCare detected 82.4% of nearly half a million pieces of malware. Early last month, Virus Bulletin, a U.K.-based publication that put 15 Vista security programs up against January's WildList, found that Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare 1.5 failed the test, among four others.

"The recent detection numbers were not stellar. We missed capturing a VB100 [Virus Bulletin 100] in the last test because we missed one virus. As a result, we have adopted new methodologies to ... look more closely at families of viruses that have been found to be 'in the wild,' [those] found actively spreading among users. We will keep on working to acquire the VB100 Award each time we are tested by Virus Bulletin. You will see our results gradually and steadily increase until they are on par with the other majors in this arena," wrote Jimmy Kuo, a member of the Microsoft security research and response team, on a company blog. Kuo also noted that Microsoft would put more resources into identifying what he called "truly important malware."

Source: ComputerWorld

[ProCookie]

I used onecare for a while until it started locking down my network for no apparent reason, it would aslo block my Xbox 360 regularly for no apparent reason. So i went to good ole AVG and after seeing this thread im glad i don't use Onecare now.

[Znod]

Yes, I quit OneCare (beta) a long time ago. I liked it's firewall pretty well, but that is all I wanted to use.

[Midway]

I tried it for a while myself not too long after getting Vista and didn't care much for it. Like Znod, I did like the firewall which made configuring outgoing a lot easier. I really didn't need a "Swiss Army knife" type application as I have other programs that I prefer to do those jobs (same reason I didn't go with Norton 360).

I feel for those folks who paid for it though.

[Znod]

Also, everything it does as I recall, except for the decent outgoing protection, is duplicated in Vista.