Is onecare the best antispyware??

Question

well i have a combo of windows vista firfox and windows live onecare and my dad has EXTREMELY important documents so secret if i said a certain kids name we would pay a very high fee i just don't want to get infected and become a 11 year old hobo thanks

Answer 1

Windows Live OneCare isn't very good in general but it's antispyware - Defender - is.

First do an online scan (to check that you are not already infected) and clean ( if necessary) with http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html AND http://www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan/

Now it's time to replace that miserable insecurity software that you use; download the installers for

browser - http://www.opera.com/ - use this instead that malware magnet IE

antivirus - http://www.avast.com/

antispyware - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai...

................. - http://www.safer-networking.org/en/downl...

firewall - http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

They are all the best in their category and FREE.

Unplug the internet line, uninstall OneCare and install these (if necessary in safe mode) one by one with each necessary reboot done.

Reconnect the line and update them (Spybot has it manual).

That's all. Now admire how fast and safe your pc is (only if you never use IE again).

Answer 2

no onecare is not good antispyware download good antispyware like spybot search and destroy you can use two antispyware like u can use spywareblaster its free and work great

Answer 3

You mean you want to trust the company who created the virus breeding ground called Windows, to protect that same virus-bed from getting viruses??????   Come on, get real!  LOL

Get NOD32 from http://www.eset.com

Answer 4

No.

If Microsoft know anything about security, there won't be so many viruses in Windows OS.

Spybot is the best free anti-spyware tool that that contains many features.

http://www.safer-networking.org/

Spybot immunize your computer against spyware.

It modifies Internet Explorer to block a lot of the bad stuff known to Spybot.

There is a second layer of protection for IE that blocks anything that should come through by different aspects.

Spybot Resident a tool which check permanently running application to protect your system.

Spybot Resident TeaTimer is a tool which perpetually monitors the processes called/initiated and immediately detects known malicious processes.

It giving you some options how to deal with this process in the future:

You can set TeaTimer to be informed when the process tries to start again automatically kill the process or generally allow the process to run

There is also an option to delete the file associated with this process.

In addition, TeaTimer detects, when something wants to change some critical registry keys. TeaTimer can protect you against such changes again giving you an option: You can either Allow or Deny the change.

Spybot host file locking is a tool which locks the hosts file to prevent unauthorized changes.

Locking the hosts file will prevent most hosts hijackers (even unknown) from doing harm;

Locking the IE settings will prevent other users of your computer to change your preferences.

Spybot ActiveX is a tool to display a list of installed ActiveX applications it will display a green checkmark in front of ActiveX applications known as legitimate,

and a red sign in front if applications known as illegitimate

Spybot process list is a tool displays a list of all currently running processes,

including some information about them. It also allows you to kill some processes

Spybot System startup tool lists all programs that are started at Windows startup.

If those items are in the database coming with Spybot, it will display some more information about them.

It also allows you to disable (and enable) items, as well as delete them, change them or insert new items. The entries will be displayed in different colours:

Green: legitimate program

Yellow: unknown, unneeded or unambiguous program (e.g. malware programs might use the same file name as legitimate programs)

Red: malicious program



Spybot system internal is a registry cleaner that fix error in windows registry.

Answer 5

no way, get kaspersky internet security! the best! for the price

or get AV for free! best in my opinion

Answer 6

visit this site http://toptenantispyware.com/

it may help you choosing anti-spyware...