Microsoft Windows OneCare antivirus scan engine

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Does anyone know what scan engine is used by Microsoft Windows OneCare
antivirus?
Is it a Microsoft own engine or is it provided by a third party?

Thanks in advance for your reply.

Best regards

Mim G.
 
From: <[email protected]>

| Does anyone know what scan engine is used by Microsoft Windows OneCare
| antivirus?
| Is it a Microsoft own engine or is it provided by a third party?
|
| Thanks in advance for your reply.
|
| Best regards
|
| Mim G.

It's their own. Maybe based upon RAV's old engine which was purchased by Microsoft 2 or 3
years ago.

As far as I know, it is the same engine used for their online AV scanner -
http://safety.live.com/site/en-US/default.htm

Right now they are so behind the curve in detection its actually laughable. To add injury
to insult they have a spam filter on their AV submission email address so if you use the
wrong words or HTML embed a graphic it may trigger the spam filter and you'll get a failed
mail message.
 
[email protected] AKA David H. Lipman on 12/16/2005 in
It's their own. Maybe based upon RAV's old engine which was
purchased by Microsoft 2 or 3 years ago.

As far as I know, it is the same engine used for their online AV
scanner - http://safety.live.com/site/en-US/default.htm

Right now they are so behind the curve in detection its actually
laughable. To add injury to insult they have a spam filter on their
AV submission email address so if you use the wrong words or HTML
embed a graphic it may trigger the spam filter and you'll get a
failed mail message.
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Do you think it is good enough for my 6yr old son's XPSP2 pro? That is
the box that I put it on. ;)
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From: "Max Wachtel" <[email protected]>


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| Do you think it is good enough for my 6yr old son's XPSP2 pro? That is
| the box that I put it on. ;)
| max
|

I don't get the question. MS AV solutuions are Beta so I won't/don't suggest them.

I think you have aprety good idea of "good" well know AV solutions.
Rule of thumb -- stick to what you know.
 
[email protected] AKA David H. Lipman on 12/16/2005 in
I don't get the question.
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It was my poor attempt at humour :(

I have been running it a while now-seems to be written with the novice
in mind.
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From: "Max Wachtel" <[email protected]>


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| It was my poor attempt at humour :(
|
| I have been running it a while now-seems to be written with the novice
| in mind.
| max

Oh -- I get it now :-)

Not a humourous night tonight.
 
I can't believe that Microsoft, with its enormous resources and its
commitment to security, can produce an antivirus that is a piece of
crap.
Is there any comparative test out there that considers Windows OneCare?

Thanks.

Mim G.
 
From: <[email protected]>

| I can't believe that Microsoft, with its enormous resources and its
| commitment to security, can produce an antivirus that is a piece of
| crap.
| Is there any comparative test out there that considers Windows OneCare?
|
| Thanks.
|
| Mim G.

It is still a Beta. I don't think you'll see it compared until it is fully completed and
released.
 
[email protected] AKA David H. Lipman on 12/17/2005 in
It is still a Beta. I don't think you'll see it compared until it is
fully completed and released.
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M$ is still looking for more Crash Test Dummies
http://ideas.live.com/
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David said:
It is still a Beta. I don't think you'll see it compared until it is fully completed and
released.
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I dunno.

Win98SE could be considered Beta up until about a month before MS
discontinued it.
 
I can't believe that Microsoft, with its enormous resources and its
commitment to security, can produce an antivirus that is a piece of
crap.
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then you're not a student of history... msav was definitely crap...
 
David said:
It is still a Beta. I don't think you'll see it compared until it is
fully completed and released.
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Microsoft AntiSpyware would be considered Beta also, but it is very
good, isn't it? Granted that is essentially the same product as
Giant's but could not the same case be made for the anti-virus product?
 
From: "badgolferman" <[email protected]>

|
| Microsoft AntiSpyware would be considered Beta also, but it is very
| good, isn't it? Granted that is essentially the same product as
| Giant's but could not the same case be made for the anti-virus product?
|

Anything I can come up with would be pure baseless supposition.
 
RAV was a nice AV prior to Microsoft's purchase of it. No idea on how
it is today. RAV was the only desktop AV out there that could open up
..PST files on a drive w/out using MAPI and cleanup viruses. This was
very usefull for scanning a network share containing users .PST files.
RAV could also scan inside of other mail stores such as Moz/NS.

I agree that I'd stay away from it while in BETA status. If you are
not willing to pay for AV, there are too many free for personal use
AV's that are good. Avast, AVG, FPROT etc.
 
I agree that I'd stay away from it while in BETA status. If you are
not willing to pay for AV, there are too many free for personal use
AV's that are good. Avast, AVG, FPROT etc.
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F-Prot DOS is free. F-Prot dow Windows is not.
 
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