Just another voice to support Alex's comments. I had recommended OneCare to
a small client with 6 computers in a workgroup. Everything was ok until the
2.0 upgrade disabled networking and tried to divide their workgroup into 2
Circles of 3. Then it started auto-adding shared printers, causing problems
with existing software that prints to particular printers by name.
I don't buy antivirus software to have it make its own decisions about
networking. It would have been fine if it SUGGESTED changes, but making
unilateral configuration changes caused problems. It seems this product is
now squarely aimed at home users, and not small businesses. It doesn't make
sense that Microsoft is at the same time exploring volume licensing for
OneCare, unless that's a different product version that is actually aimed at
small business? Any chance that's the case?
"Alex McFarlane" <alex@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Oey0o5rZIHA.4696@xxxxxx
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> Dear Steve,
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> From reading the ng it seems that lots of OneCare users are getting mighty
> fed up very quickly, since you seem to represent Microsoft can you please
> report our dismay back to your software masters asap.
>
> I try and then buy the software. Then it upgrades itself and sets up these
> little 3 in a group "cliques" of computers which are isolated from any
> others that may be in a workgroup. Then the bloody software updates itself
> to lock down the firewall to prevent any e-mail traffic.
>
> Such features and auto-activity are just not wanted. At the very least we
> should be warned about what is going to happen rather than having to drop
> everything at a weekend just to keep our computers going.
>
> Personally I would prefer to run a naked computer and risk the odd virus.
> At least my computer is working properly now that OneCare is removed.
>
> We just want anti-virus and anti-psishing software, nothing more, nothing
> less. Please let microsoft know.
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