I received my OneCare Live beta in the mail over the weekend and have been running it on my production notebook - DELL Inspiron 700m with Windows XP. So far so good. The installation was a bit awkward but seemed to be successful. Microsoft was also generous enough to include 2 blank CDRWs for Backup purposes.
Windows OneCare is comprised of 3 major features - Protection Plus, Performance Plus and Backup/Restore.
Protection Plus consists of the Antivirus monitoring and Firewall. Unsure if its possible to see the virus definitions, only the last time it was updated. The Firewall is integrated into the Windows Firewall.
The Performane Plus does a few things when clicked. It checks for viruses, files that need to be backed up (optional) , Defrags the Hard Drive and does a disk cleanup, which removes old and unneeded files.
The Backup and Restore, althought I haven't run through all its steps seem to be different than the usual NT Backup. I haven't found an option to choose files or folders other than those stored on the profile, like My Documents, Favorites , Outlook data and such.
Its been a few days and no errors or performance issues, but we'll see as time go back. DO NOTE I also have my Blackice firewall, and my McAfee Antivirus 8.x software running on this notebook, but so far no conflicts has risen.
Anyone else played with it yet ?
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