Microsoft has released the latest version of its all-in-one security product, Windows Live OneCare. In beta since July, version 2.0 offers many enhancements to existing tools and offers several new tools, particularly in the area of networking and backup storage.
Installation from the Windows Live OneCare site requires signing in with a Windows Live account.
Microsoft says customers can use their current Live ID or create a new one for OneCare and even use one Live ID for Windows Live OneCare and another Live ID for Windows Live Messenger on the same machine.
The Live ID a customer users with Windows Live OneCare will be good on two additional machines.
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Also there's a new start-time optimiser, displaying infrequently used applications so a user have the option of removing them from the Start folder and thus speed up boot time.
Users can now configure printer sharing, even install device drivers on network machines so to avoid the need for having to move the printer from room to room. And users can now centralise all their individual PC backups to one external drive or one central computer, and a new online photo storage service is offered.
There is even a monthly report of all the actions that Windows Live OneCare performed recently.
Microsoft has come under fire recently for not performing well in several independent antivirus tests -- in one, even falling to last place against Symantec and McAfee.
