All just marketing fluff or is it really that good?

I've been using OneCare for about 4 months now with no problems to report. And that is what's scaring me. One care is not finding anything. Now I don't go to the truly dangerous websites, but I do surf quite a bit. In previous days of using XP with programs like Ad-Aware and SpyBot, it wasn't unusual to find a couple of bad eggs in the basket on a weekly or at least monthly basis.

Now using OneCare with my Vista 64, I find that I'm either going to some truly safe sites, or OneCare is not finding the spyware, trojans, etc.

I'm trying to determine if that's a good thing or not? OneCare has been virtually invisible to me so far. It doesn't appear to be a resource hog and if properly setup does not bug the bejeesus out of you with every mouse click.

I suspect the jury is still out on OneCare, especially for Vista 64. Maybe the creeps creating the spyware haven't figure out how to be effective in the 64 bit format? I doubt it will take them long.

I suppose for now, "no news" is truly good news.

Dashkatt <Dashkatt.37wzf0@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote:
No news is good news. :-)
If you want to confirm that it's working, try out one or more of the free online
scanners (disabling OneCare protection to avoid conflicts:
A few good ones -
http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/

http://www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan/

-steve
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Stephen Boots sboots@xxxxxx
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live
Windows Live OneCare Forum Moderator
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"StephenB" <sboots@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:0rub04t96poj7a4tmstds51uadvg9pob4k@xxxxxx http://securitycheck.symantec.com

Cheers,

Earle

Thanks Earle & Steve! I'm going to give those sites a go and see what lurks behind the shadows...

Dash