zdnet.com.au — According to postings on Microsoft's OneCare forum, erasures have been caused when the antivirus programm finds a virus in an email attachment. Instead of then quarantining that single email, users have reported that entire .pst or .dbx files have been deleted, along with other important emails.
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hsokineesMar 12, 2007
another vote for NOD32 :) been using it for years, and love it :D
betonaMar 12, 2007
I absolutely love NOD32 myself, but a friend had the same thing happen to him a few weeks ago. At my suggestion, he installed NOD32 and it detected a virus in his Eudora mail file. Thinking it would just delete the one bad message, he let it delete it (not quarantine) and it deleted the entire mail file - about 10 years' worth of e-mail. Apparently NOD saw it as one single file. Moral of the story is that it can happen to anyone by any AV program, depending on what you do.
bmartinMar 12, 2007
@marthinus: It's a good idea, in theory, but sudo works from a terminal, whereas Windows stays away from text-based operations as much as possible. This is more of a behavior concern than design.UAC is necessary and should have been implemented a long time ago. People with Bastille-like security can deactivate it, while people like my mother, who gets viruses from AOL all the time and is too much of a zombie to shut off UAC, will have one more click before their system melts down. She's managed to take down both her home and work computers with viruses within the past month, both of them running XP and a commercial-grade virus scanner.
bmartinMar 12, 2007
@mictester: I blame their software quality on the design methods and QC team. They should re-design Windows from the top-down, breaking it up into a more modular structure. It could still have all of the same services it does now, the same look, etc., but it would be easier to maintain and more secure, along with being less reliant on that horrible RPC service.I'm sure there are a lot of incredible coders at MS. They're working under constraints just like everybody else. When you think about it, they've really "stolen" less than just about any other OS. The only issue I have with their theft is the BlueJ team's object bench.
bmartinMar 12, 2007
If you're into heavy gaming or Photoshop, you're pretty much locked in. PS runs with Wine, but it's slow. Linux has a lot of games, but most of the mainstream games don't support Linux.It's not nearly as difficult to move away from Windows as it used to be. Ubuntu/Kubuntu is really easy to install and comes on a Live CD so you can take a look at it before installing. There's a lot of support for new users via the forums in case you get stuck on anything.
ccanni1028Mar 12, 2007
usherzx - Have you ever installed ZoneAlarm or another firewall on a new computer? The first time any new program tries to access the internet, it will ask about it. After that, it just runs in the background.
jsusankaMar 13, 2007
I trust microsoft and they can delete any email that they don't think I should read. after they know better than I do as to what I want to do with a computer.
faskippyMar 13, 2007
I will be the first to admit that I'm not tech savvy. But since I downloaded 2007, I've been plagued with slower than snail snot speed, getting knocked off when forwarding emails, or at unexplainable times. Have to send error reports left and right. Someone told me there is a way to uninstall it, but I just fear messing something up. Any easy cures out there? Thanks.