MS Windows Live OneCare 2.0

Purchased from Comet for 29.99 - Having installed this at Christmas on my laptop it has produced a mix bag of results. Whilst on the outside it does suggest that it is protecting your computer from the latest viruses, i've experienced a range of minor problems including being unable to access the login screen and having several errors including win32. My laptop does however seem to be fine at present and according to Microsoft OneCare i'm protected and have the latest editions to software. A couple of things do get slightly annoying how many times OneCare requests you create a backup disc and puts you at an amber status even though its fully updated. To summarise I ...  Read the complete review

I can't give this 1 star, because it certainly does protect. Annoyingly so! It wants to block nearly every (safe) program you open on you computer. This can cause trouble if you accidently click 'block' when you didn't mean to. You have to trudge through the software to unblock the program once again. I know it sounds silly, accidently blocking it in the first place. But these dialogue boxes pop up SO often, it is unavoidable. Its firewall has blocked the internet from working at all in most situations. Therefore causing panic at a Holiday Inn as we desperately needed to access the internet, and taking a great deal of time before we realized that it was ...  Read the complete review