Comments on: review: Microsoft Windows OneCare

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Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:47:44 +0000

[...] I just downloaded Forefront Client Security. Microsoft requires downloaders to sign in to Microsoft’s download center with a Windows Live registered email address. (easy to obtain: if you have a hotmail.com account, you may already have a Windows Live account). I I may test it, but I have misgivings about it, based on my disastrous Windows One Care beta test. [...]

By: Alexander

Alexander — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:03:55 +0000

Hello Mary,

I am sorry to read that you encountered some difficulty uninstalling your trial version of Outpost Firewall Pro 4.0.

Outpost supports the standard Windows uninstall process – go to the Windows Control Panel | Add and Remove Programs and select Outpost | Remove. Did you use this procedure – or some other?

We’re curious, because, during both internal and external testing of the release candidates for this version, we received no reports of uninstallation failures. Similarly, no users have so far reported uninstall failures when using Outpost after it was officially released.

After testing and removing Microsoft Windows OneCare, did you re-install Outpost?

If you could respond offline with answers to these questions, I’d be happy to investigate further.

Thank you.

Best regards,
Alexander Kariagin
PR & Marketing manager, Agnitum

By: Tris Hussey

Tris Hussey — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 03:24:45 +0000

I decided to give the beta a try as well. I haven’t tried the backup option, but the nightly scan is keeps picking up something that I’m pretty sure is okay and I can’t tell it to ignore.

The firewall is okay … the default file and printer sharing as off … good thing I caught it bbecause I rely on that on my home net.

Would I buy it? Dunno.