When you have to jump through hoops like Ed did/describes below, you become
soured on the product. I'm happy Ed got things working, but for what he did,
it sounds like my experiences with open source apps/shareware/freeware.
Quality assurance is clearly missing from OneCare.
It exhausting when you have to chase down settings to make this product
work. It's not free and yet MS dumps this thing on us and expects customers
to sort through its idiosyncrasies. Their tech support team knows little
about this program. I don’t trust it.
"Ed Stoddard" wrote:
> Contrary to what one poster said here, Windows Live OneCare is NOT garbage.
>
> I had the problem (which I believe is the same here) where when I upgraded
> to Vista Ultimate and I turned the Windows Live OneCare firewall ON I lost
> all connectivity. When I turned the firewall OFF I got it back again.
>
> So, while I was passing e-mails to OneCare about this problem, I was using
> the Vista firewall instead along with all other OneCare features to remain
> reasonably safe. OneCare advised me to uninstall OneCare and reinstall after
> reboot. I did this and turned the OneCare firewall ON and again lost my
> Internet connection.
>
> But wait, I had a thought! I did have the Vista firewall on and did not
> turn it OFF when I uninstalled OneCare's firewall and reinstalled it. So,
> this time I uninstalled OneCare again, TURNED OFF the Vista firewall,
> rebooted my computer, and reinstalled OneCare. When I turned the OneCare
> firewall ON it WORKED! No lost connectivity.
>
> So, be aware that Vista has its own firewall, which I believe is on by
> default. Just turning it off and turning OneCare's on doesn't work - Vista's
> firewall has to be OFF during installation of Windows Live OneCare.
>
> "khaan23" wrote:
>
> > I discovered that Windows OneCare Live is the culprit; I uninstalled the
> > existing installation, rebooted, and everything started working just fine.
> > Downloaded it again, installed it - the connectivity went away again, so I'm
> > uninstalling it again as I write this.
> >
> > My other Vista computer is running OneCare Live without any issues so it's
> > still not clear why it's misbehaving on the newer installation - but if I
> > figure it out, I'll let you know.
> >
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