Review
Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare 2.0 is a solid easy to use security protection suite that combines antivirus, anti-spyware, and firewall security features witha first-class PC backup and restore service. The program protects your computer from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, hackers, phishing, and other threats. In OneCare 2.0, Microsoft has added an interesting multiple-PC management feature that ensures that customers don't install OneCare on more than three PCs and also provides customers with a way to manage multiple PCs from a single location which is very useful to to fix other PCs in very limited circumstances. This group of up to 3 PCs in the same network is referred to as circle, in which one or more PCs can be denoted as hub PCs, which are capable of monitoring all of the PCs in the circle. What is new in OneCare 2.0 is that all PCs in your OneCare circle can be optionally configured to backup to a centralized location, typically an external USB hard drive. You also can, of course, optionally configure each PC to backup to different locations, as you could with previous OneCare versions. What is more, OneCare 2.0 now includes the ability to automatically share printers between all of the PCs in a OneCare circle. |
