One Care has a 90-day free trial and after the trial, the service is marketed at $49/year, so about $4 per month. Considering that Symantec et all charge for the live update service after 18 months, you can probably break about even.
You can avoid the liveupdate cost by upgrading your software every 18 months which is not uncommon as you want the most current methodologies to try at least counteract the known viruses available. One Care as been pretty lightweight thus far. I disliked Symantec in the past as it kept thinking Java was a virus. The notifications for applications requesting access to the internet have been non-evasive unlike Symantec which injects a graphic window to prompt you. If you are in a full screen application, you can get a rude awakening. Teddy On 11/30/06, John C. Bland II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ahh...my bad Jacob. Vista is more secure though so I understand what Dave > and them are saying. If the (virus) app can't do something crazy (edit the > registry, delete files, etc) without user approval, then the virus is dead > WITHOUT the users input (which is the biggest problem but at least they > will > be notified of potential issues now). > > No, One Care is separate and costs. > > On 11/30/06, Munson, Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > One last thing (Jacob Munson), Vista can't be compared to a > > > virus protection > > > application (Norton's, etc). That is what they do...manage virus > > > definitions. Vista is the OS. If Vista has a hole, MSFT will > > > fix it. If a > > > new virus comes out, MSFT will update One Care's virus > > > definitions (a virus > > > protecting program). > > > > I think you got confused, John. I was NOT comparing Vista to Virus > > protection, but that is what Microsoft and Dave were doing, but stating > > that you DON'T need virus protection with Vista. Their argument was > > that Vista is strong enough to protect against ALL future virus attacks, > > and therefore antivirus software is redundant and unnecessary. I > > strongly disagree, and from what you said, I think you and I are on the > > same page here. Now, was Microsoft including One Care in their blanket > > statement that Vista won't need virus protection? I don't know. Maybe > > not, and their whole point was that you don't need /3rd party/ virus > > protection. But I thought I heard somewhere that Microsoft is not going > > to include their virus scanner with Vista by default? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > This transmission may contain information that is privileged, > confidential > > and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the > > intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, > copying, > > distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any > > reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you received this > transmission > > in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material > in > > its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. > > > > > > > ============================================================================== > > "EMF <idahopower.com>" made the previous annotations. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:262281 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
