For once, a Microsoft employee (most likely a soon-to-be-former employee at this point) has admitted something most of us have known for a long time: Microsoft OneCare shouldn’t have been released. Anyone who’s actually tried using OneCare has known this for a long time. Add to that the recent discoveries that OneCare fails to pass independent testing (actually, it was the only product tested that failed to gain any certifications) and OneCare fails to protect Windows Vista (but to be fair, McAfee isn’t doing much better in that regard).
My favourite quotes from the article that pretty accurately sum things up:
Asked about these problems, Arno Edelmann, Microsoft’s European business security product manager, told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the code itself has pieces missing.
“Usually Microsoft doesn’t develop products, we buy products. It’s not a bad product, but bits and pieces are missing,” said Edelmann.
So, in other words, Microsoft
Paul Thurrott reports that Windows Live OneCare will soon begin OneCare version 2.0 beta testing. This version will push beyond the suite's security focus to provide continuous and holistic care...
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According to a good number of recent posts, people are starting to get really mad because all of their email is being deleted by the OneCare product! According to reports, if OneCare detects an email with malware in the attachment, it quarantines the entire Outlook PST file! And on top of that, for a lot of people it has deleted their the file from quarantine also! So if you're using Windows Live OneCare and this has not happened to you yet, TURN IT OFF and wait for the patch!! http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012969&source=rss_topic125If you're one of the lucky ones or even if you don't have OneCare, you should still backup your Outlook email because you never know when it can get corrupted or deleted and you might lose years worth of emails!! Here's a link to the Microsoft Outlook Backup Utility which will help make sure the file is safely backed up!http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA010875321033.aspx
Recent reports suggest Microsoft’s OneCare anti-virus offering suffered a bug that could have caused it to delete or quarantine all e-mail in a user’s Outlook inbox, in certain cases when it finds a virus. Details have appeared in Microsoft’s forums. A short brief by Virus Bulletin suggests that the problem was confirmed and [...]
MICROSOFT’S Live OneCare came last in a security test conducted by Austrian researchers. The AV Comparatives Web site shows the results of the top antivirus products against a list of nearly half a million individual pieces of malware. Out of 17 AV programs, Vole’s OneCare came last, well behind the winner G Data [...]
