Microsoft: OneCare should not have been rolled out

Iria · Mar 16, 2007, 08:57 PM

Source: ZDNet UK
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Microsoft has said that its OneCare security suite has "a problem" with the underlying antivirus code, and admitted that security is just "a little part of Microsoft".

Speaking to ZDNet UK exclusively at the CeBIT show in Hanover, a senior manager for the software giant said that its consumer security product is far from perfect and that pieces are actually "missing".

bug77 · Mar 16, 2007, 09:45 PM

What completely baffles me is that Gecad's RAV was one of the best antivirus engines in the world when M$ bought it. And I know the authors are gurus, they developed their own programming language for RAV: AVAC (Anti-Virus Assembler C). Yet M$ turned into one of the weakest AV programs there is. Why bother, in this case???

GutterPunk · Mar 16, 2007, 09:59 PM

I thought that was true about the RAV. That is so sad... just like norton buying powerquest's partition magic.

Master Shake · Mar 16, 2007, 11:34 PM

I smell an Apple commercial.

WaltC · Mar 17, 2007, 12:04 AM

I've been using OC for months on two machines--a Vista machine and an XP machine, and I use Outlook--and have never had a false positive or lost data. So I'm completely unfamiliar with these reported problems. Frankly, the wording of this so-called "security manager" employed by Microsoft sounds very suspicious to me. I mean, they're the sort of comments that serve to get people fired, and justifiably so, imo...

It's difficult to accept this article on its face.

Iria · Mar 17, 2007, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by WaltC

I've been using OC for months on two machines--a Vista machine and an XP machine, and I use Outlook--and have never had a false positive or lost data. So I'm completely unfamiliar with these reported problems. Frankly, the wording of this so-called "security manager" employed by Microsoft sounds very suspicious to me. I mean, they're the sort of comments that serve to get people fired, and justifiably so, imo...

It's difficult to accept this article on its face.

Yah, this is one of those "foot in mouth" type of stories. But it's ZDNet UK, so it's not made up.

I think the problem is not a false positive for the lost Outlook data, but if you actually get a virus in your email, it quarantines or deletes the .pst file.

As far as the performance, or lack of performance issues, it's just plain trailed the rest in AV testing done by outside testers.

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bug77 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: around Posts: 792 Rep Power: 0	What completely baffles me is that Gecad's RAV was one of the best antivirus engines in the world when M$ bought it. And I know the authors are gurus, they developed their own programming language for RAV: AVAC (Anti-Virus Assembler C). Yet M$ turned into one of the weakest AV programs there is. Why bother, in this case???

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Master Shake DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 310 Rep Power: 0	I smell an Apple commercial.

Mar 17, 2007, 12:04 AM	#5
WaltC DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: May 2003 Location: Deep in Martian soil where it's warm and the air is good Posts: 245 Rep Power: 0	I've been using OC for months on two machines--a Vista machine and an XP machine, and I use Outlook--and have never had a false positive or lost data. So I'm completely unfamiliar with these reported problems. Frankly, the wording of this so-called "security manager" employed by Microsoft sounds very suspicious to me. I mean, they're the sort of comments that serve to get people fired, and justifiably so, imo... It's difficult to accept this article on its face.