Live OneCare - don't try this at home
I honestly and sincerely tried to use Windows Live OneCare for a month. It made my computer crawl to death, I still insisted on using it. It made Visual Studio Build process 5x slower, I still kept it on. It made my every day email check at least 40 mins longer than before, I still stubbornly kept using it for my sincere love for Microsoft Products. But no more. I had enough of it. This is the most crap product Microsoft has ever released and will ever release (I bet, otherwise I am switching to Linux/Java platform). I am so shockingly surprised how Microsoft can produce such a low quality mass consumer product, release it and keep shouting every where about its praise. If you go to Microsoft forums, you will be surprised how badly everyone has rejected this product. If Microsoft is really honest about their products, they should have withdrawn OneCare from the market after so much negative feedback.
Here are some of the major problems I have faced:
- I had to spend at least 30 to 40 mins more in Outlook 2007 since I installed it. Every single click, swtching folders, downloading emails was so slow that it felt like I am using a 386 PC.
- Almost whole day whenever I look at CPU meter, it shows MsMpEng is taking 50% CPU. I have dual core, so it's occupying one core at 100%.
- Visual Studio build was like hell. I can make a cup of tea, drink it, chat with my friends while my solution builds.
- It will not cancel Virus scan no matter how many times I tell it to stop. It will again start within a minute. There is simply no way to return to workable condition until you disable the Virus & Spyware scanning feature.
- Every morning, I tried to tolerate it for an hour or so, then I disable the Virus & Spyware scanning and go back to normal working mode. OneCare leaves no room for anyone to work on PC when it's installed.
Every single person I have seen so far installing OneCare, has gone back to some other product. There was not a single person who could continue with it. So, unless Microsoft makes major fix in this product and releases it under a different name, I will never use it. I strongly suggest you also never use it.