Those of us in the industry with long memories stroked our beards sagely when Microsoft announced OneCare, we remember how well previous attempts by Microsoft performed.
So it wasn't surprising when the news came out that OneCare eats email files. It appears that the program correctly identifies infected attachments within an Outlook pst or an Outlook Express mbx file, finds it can't repair it and so deletes the whole file.
I'm glad we haven't encountered this. It sends a cold chill of horror through my blood just thinking about the cranky, distressed customers.
The silly thing is OneCare isn't particularly good at identifying viruses. It's another reason why Microsoft should stick to making their core products more secure rather than messing around with products like Defender and OneCare.
Monday, March 12, 2007
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