Windows Live OneCare News

Bink.nu has a post describing a rather chilling flaw in Windows Live OneCare:

http://bink.nu/Article9698.bink

I would urge our members to at least read the newsgroup post of Rajesh
Kuppuswamy (Program Manager for Windows OneCare) on March 8, 2006, in this
thread: Re: Outlook and Outlook Express Mail Store Missing or Quarantined
(combined threads here)


This link should get you close:

http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsOneCare/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1150100&Site
ID=2&PageID=7

Sorry for the barbaric formatting, but I thought I would sleep better getting
this out quickly.

I would hope also that this proves to be totally inaccurate, and that I gain a
restricted-to-tolarant-friends reputation as the Hive's only Chicken Little.

Thanks for posting this, Mike! I can verify that you're not being Chicken
Little, because I had the issue they are describing happen to me twice over the
last several weeks. I didn't realize what was going on until I read this post.

Both times when I powered up, OneCare did some kind of update and then when I
launched Outlook the program went to the installer as though Outlook had never
been installed! Luckily I was able to get back into it by resetting to a
previous restore point. But it's nice to know an engine update is coming
tomorrow.

Update:

The AM engine was fixed about five hours after I originally posted

Spare yourselves the agony of reading the thread. Generate a support log and
verify that the AM Engine is 1.1.2306.0 or better.

Join the Elect by adopting Exchange Server 2007 on Longhorn Server with
Forefront.

And my sympathy to anybody that lost data. Happens to the best of us
eventually.