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Windows Live OneCare Can Eat Your Email

Posted by kdawson on from the have-a-care dept.

FutureDomain writes in to point us to a blog sponsored by PC Magazine, reporting about another problem with Windows Live OneCare. Apparently, it sometimes deletes the entire Outlook or Outlook Express .PST mailbox when it finds a virus in one of the messages. The only solution is to tell OneCare to exclude the entire Outlook mailbox. This is the software that came in last in antivirus tests. The trail of tears is ongoing over on the Microsoft forums.

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  1. Re:trail of tears? by OiToTheWorld · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, because losing your mail is TOTALLY similar to the forced relocation of the Cherokee people you insensitive clod!

  2. Re:trail of tears? by ColaMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's 119 posts on that thread. It's a trail of something, most likely pissed-off users.
    I smell an opportunity..... Quick! Someone post some linux evangelism there!

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    You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike.
    There is a lot of hype here.
  3. It's The Lt. Ripley Virus Scanner by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nuke the mailbox from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

  4. Re:trail of tears? by kennygraham · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do you honestly think that losing your email is anywhere near on par with being forcably relocated from the land your ancestors had lived on for centuries to be moved to Oklahoma?

    Yes. Now I'll have to pay full price for viagra. I consider the two to be on par.