Microsoft to offer 1-stop PC security

Microsoft's been busy on the PC-security front as well as in gaming. There was a lot of coverage about the "Windows OneCare" PC-security service it plans to offer next year (it launched an internal test this week), the Washington Post reports. OneCare "contains tools to fight spyware and viruses, a firewall to block sketchy data (incoming and outgoing), and patches security holes." It will also offer "computer care tools such as disk defragging and file repair, and scheduled data backup features that will save critical data such as photos and financial information to CDs or DVDs," ZDNET adds. Here's further coverage from the New York Times, BBC. Meanwhile, after five months of testing and 1 million downloads, Microsoft has also released the final version of its desktop search tool, competing with those of Google and Yahoo, CNET reports - you know, what to use to find all that stuff on the family hard drive.