Live OneCare – don’t try this at home

I honestly and sincerely tried to use Windows Live OneCare for a
month. It made my computer crawl to death, I still insisted on
using it. It made Visual Studio Build process 5x slower, I still
kept it on. It made my every day email check at least 40 mins
longer than before, I still stubbornly kept using it for my sincere
love for Microsoft Products. But no more. I had enough of it. This
is the most crap product Microsoft has ever released and will ever
release (I bet, otherwise I am switching to Linux/Java platform). I
am so shockingly surprised how Microsoft can produce such a low
quality mass consumer product, release it and keep shouting every
where about its praise. If you go to Microsoft forums, you will be
surprised how badly everyone has rejected this product. If
Microsoft is really honest about their products, they should have
withdrawn OneCare from the market after so much negative
feedback.

Here are some of the major problems I have faced:

  • I had to spend at least 30 to 40 mins more in Outlook 2007
    since I installed it. Every single click, swtching folders,
    downloading emails was so slow that it felt like I am using a 386
    PC.
  • Almost whole day whenever I look at CPU meter, it shows MsMpEng
    is taking 50% CPU. I have dual core, so it’s occupying one core at
    100%.
  • Visual Studio build was like hell. I can make a cup of tea,
    drink it, chat with my friends while my solution builds.
  • It will not cancel Virus scan no matter how many times I tell
    it to stop. It will again start within a minute. There is simply no
    way to return to workable condition until you disable the Virus
    & Spyware scanning feature.
  • Every morning, I tried to tolerate it for an hour or so, then I
    disable the Virus & Spyware scanning and go back to normal
    working mode. OneCare leaves no room for anyone to work on PC when
    it’s installed.

Every single person I have seen so far installing OneCare, has
gone back to some other product. There was not a single person who
could continue with it. So, unless Microsoft makes major fix in
this product and releases it under a different name, I will never
use it. I strongly suggest you also never use it.

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8 thoughts on “Live OneCare – don’t try this at home”

  4. Funny you mention it – I haven’t tried it myself since it hasn’t been released in a danish version yet, but yesterday I tried the online scanner which you can use for free until Onecare has been released for your OS version.

    After an hour or so it crashed and froze IE7 so I had to kill the IE7-process from the task manager. I’ve been using symantec products for 10 years and I seriously considered to give onecare a try, but I guess you’ve cleared things up for me 😛

    Thx for saving my time 🙂

  6. Omar is right. I have used Live One Care on my machine and it really sucked the brain out of my PC.

    I dont think and dont recommend it at all for weak hearted people~

  7. Your are absolutely right. I installed it and it was terrible. The virus scanner and the backup tool were both unusable. Now I use the Antivir again.

  8. Rod Trent said:

    How can you be sure that it was OneCare causing your computer problems?

    # March 16, 2007 6:07 AM

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    one reason is because msmpeng.exe the process accociated with it hogs cpu usage… ive only had it 30 mins literally and im already done with it.. dont kno what tha he they was thinkin with this one…. but than again look at how vista turned out 🙂

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