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Live Safety Center is good and free

Woody Leonhard

By Woody Leonhard

When Microsoft first announced Windows Live OneCare, I figured Redmond had a lot of cojones to charge consumers for protection against flaws in its own products.

In OneCare's first month, however, it appears to my jaundiced eye that MS has responded admirably to two real, in-the-wild, zero-day attacks — first in Word, then in Excel — via a little-known free service called the Windows Live Safety Center. Never heard of it? Read on.

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