Microsoft announces M12 milestone for OneCare. An email was sent out to all current beta testers notifying them of new updates and features in OneCare. The only downside was that all firewall policies and antivirus exclusions were lost in the new build.
New features include:
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New features include:
- Backups to external hard drives.
- Functionality to scan files or folders with mouse right-click.
- Automatic scans of files received via MSN Messenger.
- Improvements to the Windows OneCare Help Center.
- Automated assistance in uninstalling products that conflict with Windows OneCare.
- Integration with Microsoft Update.
Microsoft announces M12 milestone for OneCare. An email was sent out to all current beta testers notifying them of new updates and features in OneCare. The only downside was that all firewall policies and antivirus exclusions were lost in the new build.
New features include:
- Backups to external hard drives.
- Functionality to scan files or folders with mouse right-click.
- Automatic scans of files received via MSN Messenger.
- Improvements to the Windows OneCare Help Center.
- Automated assistance in uninstalling products that conflict with Windows OneCare.
- Integration with Microsoft Update.
Email recieved by beta testers:
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OneCare still needs some features like Ad Blocking, Spam Filtering (email), Privacy Protection, etc.
I really hope we never see general ad-blocking as part of Windows or Internet Explorer. I have no problem with blocking pop-up ads because I don't think a web page should be able to cause your computer to open new advertisement windows on your computer. However, most of the web is supported by ads; building ad-blocking into the OS 95% of people use would fundamentally change the economics behind the Internet (for the worse).
I guess no one has heard of COPY AND PASTE or how about using MS Backup which comes with XP!!
OneCare is about as useful as Norton SystemWorks (ie Software for Tards).
Anyway, most would probably rather buy a few CD/DVD-RWs to use in their existing drive then buy an expensive external hard drive. The current backup software in Windows provides no automatic way of doing a back to CD or DVD.
The software included with Windows also provides no feedback to the user if a scheduled backup failed; or if the system has not had a good backup in x weeks. As a power user I don't even want to have to check my backups every few months to make sure they are still running; I want to set and forget.
I filed bugs on it, but Microsoft refused to acknowledge there was a problem.
OneCare is nothing but a joke that will cost consumers plenty...
Other than that its nice
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