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Windows Defender is an anti-malware program, not an anti-virus program and I never experienced any problems with it during the time I used it.  I can't vouch for OneCare as I never use paid products.

Try taking a read of these two articles.

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Originally posted by Chris4
I would personally recommend Microsoft Security Essentials.

Good articles:
- Stop Paying for Windows Security; Microsoft's Security Tools Are Good Enough
- Microsoft Security Essentials Ranks as Best-Performing Free Antivirus

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Not to mention that the article you quoted was from long before Microsoft Security Essentials was released

Anti-virus products don't display "outgoing/incoming activity", that's the job of a firewall, so is an invalid criticism of a piece of anti-virus software.

Whether you want to listen to me or not, the facts are simple: you CANNOT use Messenger Plus! Live and ThreatFire together and have both of them functioning.  One of them has several perfectly good alternatives, one of them doesn't......so I know which I'd remove

You came to a forum to get advice....you're being given the only advice possible for this problem, what you choose to do with it is your outlook.