I'm not surprised Once Care got the boot. I was involved with the prerelease

testing and even back then there were many, many of us who tried to let them

know One Care was not ready for release. It was slow, intrusive and didn't

work well with other MS products like Media Center. It's nice to see them

considering releasing a free AV solution; we'll see how it stacks up against

AVG. Hopefully they will remember the concept of consumer choice and not

ship it preinstalled with Windows 7. It would also be nice if they managed

to not pollute it with advertising as they have with Messenger. We'll see.

Thanks,

Dave

David Smith

Systems Administrator

Doan Family of Dealerships

(585) 352-6600 ext.1730

dsmith@doandelivers.com

www.upstatedigitools.com

-----Original Message-----

From: profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On

Behalf Of Alan Bourke

Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:34 AM

To: profoxtech@leafe.com

Subject: [NF] MS announce free AV/Malware solution.

http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/microsoft-announces-free-morro-antivi

rus-software-486774?src=rss

Looks like OneCare wasn't cutting it. Their current offerings are very

resource-hungry compared to some of the independent vendors like Sophos.

--

Alan Bourke

alanpbourke@fastmail.fm

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