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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. Cry me a river by wumpus188 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Don't know about you, but my trail of tears leads to the nearest Apple store...

  2. Re:trail of tears? by Talgrath · · Score: 0, Troll

    Jesus Christ, whoever put "trail of tears" in there needs to have their nuts removed; they obviously have no idea what the Trail of Tears was about, either that or they're an insensitive asshole (I'd probably go for both, myself). Let's never compare Microsoft's screw-ups to murder and relocation again, ever.

  3. Re:trail of tears? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Someone post some linux evangelism there! I've been using Linux ever since Linus was a 9-year old kid and I have never lost any email. I had installed mendsail (as sendmail was called then) on our University's PDP-9 clone. I had hacked the root account for that. The password was 'origin' . The email program was in 63 tapes. I sat through several nights and kept changing the tapes. While it read them, I played on my Wii. The last tape was currupted, so I called Linus on my cellphone who dictated to me the code and I punched the program on punched cards and fed them.