OneCare dead

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The end of one Registry Cleaner. That's good news!


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Gerry
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John

Who is number 2?

Well at least it will eliminate Microsoft from the boring exposition of
their dubious merits.

I have never believed in All in One solutions and the latest news is
just another example where it has not worked!

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Gerry
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Twayne said:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2190

Microsoft kills OneCare, replaces it with freebie 'Morro'
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Well, it "dies" in June 2009, not now. And main support lasts until
2012 and extended to 2017.

I always found it amusing that Microsoft wanted to charge their
customers for software that was supposed to protect their own OS.

Yes, buy our OS.
Yes, now buy our security product to make safer our OS.
 
"To morro, to morro".
lol! Good catch! I never thought of it that way; thanks for the grins.
 
The end of one Registry Cleaner. That's good news!

No, I don't think so ... They weasel-worded things as MS always does,
but later it implies the "same" underpinnings. MS is into the rename
game big time lately. With all the problems it had they probably
decided on a different angle of attack. I still wouldn't touch it.

Twayne
 
Third person: Carey Frisch.
He pushes it all the time.
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I don't recall ANYONE ever pushing for it. It has had a rather bleek
rep since almost day one and never got past it. If it's in the new one,
which it looks like it is, I wouldn't expect it to be any better
anyway.
 
Twayne said:
Well, it "dies" in June 2009, not now. And main support lasts until
2012 and extended to 2017.

I always found it amusing that Microsoft wanted to charge their
customers for software that was supposed to protect their own OS.

Yes, buy our OS.
Yes, now buy our security product to make safer our OS.
Click to expand...

Uhh, "freebie 'Morro' " doesn't mean pay-for, jughead. One Care was
also free; I checked it out just for grins but didn't keep it long.
You're so anxious to be judgemental you can't even be bothered with
facts anymore.
 
Twayne said:
Uhh, "freebie 'Morro' " doesn't mean pay-for, jughead. One Care was
also free; I checked it out just for grins but didn't keep it long.
You're so anxious to be judgemental you can't even be bothered with
facts anymore.
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The Family Safety component with Live OneCare is free as it is a subset
of the full OneCare product (which is NOT free).

Family Safety component of OneCare
http://get.live.com/familysafety/overview
Cost: Free

Full product Windows Live OneCare
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety/technologies/onecare/default.mspx
Gee, notice the "Buy OneCare" link? Duh!
Cost: $49.95 - NOT FREE.

So YOU saw "trial" somewhere in the description in the post announcing
the death of OneCare? No one gives a gnat's fart that you tested their
free trial version. "OneCare" alone stipulates the full product, not
some crippled version of it as the Family Safety version.

What part of "WANTED to charge" didn't you understand referred to the
past (as of the time of my post) which then referred to OneCare, not to
Morro? Two products were mentioned: OneCare and Morro. Morro hasn't
been released yet. OneCare is still the current released product. It
has been the one available in the past up to the point of when I made my
post. Morro isn't around yet and I don't hedge my security setup based
on promiseware. I didn't think my statements were really that hard to
fathom as to which product I was referring.

Got a bit fuzzy-brained after that big lunch, did you?
 
Microsoft advocates and distributes snake oil????? What will the MVP's say
about that?
tsk, tsk, tsk
 
Hi Gerry,

You meant the online safety scanner, that's right. I thought you meant
the desktop program.
 
Microsoft doesn't distribute it, it's an online scanner, needs Active X
to run. Some people had asked to have it included in the OneCare
application but the OneCare developers refused to do it. I for one
still don't think much about it and I still don't think much about
registry cleaners and even less of the ones that run on Active X over
the internet! To run the online scan you have to download and install a
component for it and when it installs it changes your settings and
enables Active X without advising you. The utterly clueless who use
online registry scanners are probably the last ones who should be
running around the Internet with Active X enabled! Small wonder those
hapless folks are constantly infested with pests of all sorts, then they
think the solution to their problems are online registry cleaners!

John
 
Microsoft doesn't distribute it, it's an online scanner, needs Active
X to run. Some people had asked to have it included in the OneCare
application but the OneCare developers refused to do it. I for one
still don't think much about it and I still don't think much about
registry cleaners and even less of the ones that run on Active X over
the internet! To run the online scan you have to download and
install a component for it and when it installs it changes your
settings and enables Active X without advising you. The utterly
clueless who use online registry scanners are probably the last ones
who should be running around the Internet with Active X enabled! Small
wonder those hapless folks are constantly infested with pests
of all sorts, then they think the solution to their problems are
online registry cleaners!
Click to expand...

You're the one that seems to think "everyone" goes around thinking
solutions to problems are online registry cleaners. I've never heard
anyone claim that, nor even intimate anything close to it.
I don't think much of it either, but not because it's a "registry
cleaner", but because it hasn't lived up to doing what it says it does,
as several other good registry cleaners do quite well and reliably. But
then you also think a lot of things that aren't so, so ... .
 
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