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Microsoft Windows Live OneCare

Good

Performance
Cost of renewal when reviewed	$50 (final, non-beta product)
Performance	Good
WildList viruses	99%
AV-Test threats: back doors	70%
AV-Test threats: bots/zombies	95%
AV-Test threats: Trojan horses	56%
Heuristic detection with three-month-old signatures	41%
Detection of malware within file archives	87%
Detection of malware within runtime-compressed program files	39%
Adware detection	64%
Successful cleanup of malware files, Registry entries, and Hosts-file changes	88%
Rate of false positives	0.00%
Detection of malware embedded in Microsoft Office OLE objects	90%
Detection of malware in password-protected Microsoft Office OLE objects	90%
Firewall tests: protection from inside attacks	100%
Firewall tests: protection from outside attacks	50%
Scan speed (minutes)	13.31
Percentage slowdown of WorldBench 5 application tests
ACD Systems ACDSee PowerPack 5.0.0.0025	2%
Adobe Premiere 6.5	-1%
Ahead Software Nero Express 6.0.0.3	2%
Microsoft Office 2002 SP-2	3%
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0.0.2980	1%
Mozilla 1.4.0.2003062408	2%
Musicmatch Jukebox 7.10.1057	0%
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5.545.0	0%
WinZip Computing WinZip 8.1 SR-1 (5266)	4%
Ease-of-use score	Good
Support policies
Daily support hours	None
Free phone support	No
Cost of phone support	None
Saturday support hours	None
Sunday support hours	None
Toll-free support	Yes
E-mail support	Yes
Live chat	Yes

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