Windows Live OneCare 1.6 released

Changes in 1.6 include the ability to disable the firewall permanently (Firewall - Firewall Advanced Settings - Managing and Sharing) or for a certain period of time (slide the firewall slider to the bottom) as well as a monthly report of firewall activity available from the OneCare dashboard.

OneCare also improved its performance in the virus scan test which saw it placed last back in February, showing that as promised, the team is putting more work into the OneCare detection. Unfortunately it is still ranked 14th out of 17 products tested. But still ESET's NOD32 detects nearly 5 times more threats than Windows Live OnceCare. ESET LLC's NOD32 AntiVirus was pegged by Cleminti with the highest-possible "Advanced+" label. Symantec Corp.'s Norton AntiVirus, which detected 24% of the new threats, was the only product of the 17 tested that raised no false alarms.

However, no sign yet of the OneCare 2.0 beta.