Windows Live OneCare Needs Updated
May 30, 2007 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
I’ve been a very happy user of Windows Live OneCare. I was involved with the product during it’s beta testing and limited release and have been pleased with it as much or more so than I have with any other anti-virus program. The benefit for me though is that it’s anti-spyware, anti-virus, firewall and back-up all rolled into one. I like that, I guess other’s don’t.
I’ve read the reviews about it not catching some things the other programs did, but I can tell you I haven’t had any problems with viruses or spyware since I’ve installed it.
I know the key component of staying protected is keeping your definitions up to date. Currently OneCare is letting me know my definitions are “Out-of-date” as you can see above, the problem is that it can’t find any updates. What’s up Microsoft? I know there are updates available, why can’t OneCare see them?
I had the same problem. Not only were my definitions “out of date” but the version of the program was also out of date. I was running v1.5 but v1.6 was available. As Onecare wasn’t doing the update for me, I manually uninstalled v1.5 and reinstalled from the onecare website. I now have v1.6 and OneCare is all green again. Hardly an elegant solution, but it worked.
Good point. Thanks for mentioning the version difference as well. I’m running 1.5 as well, so I’m about to try and upgrade that. Will probably run into the same problem you did.