A "minor problem" with the Live One Care Antivirus function has been reported. It may have been fixed, but was still present at the last newsletter I got a week or two ago.

If you use Outlook for email, all your email messages are contained in one database file. When Live One Care finds an infected message, it deletes the file. Receive one infected email, and all your email messages are gone.

If you use Outlook Express for email, all the email messages in a folder are one database file. Receive one infected message, all the messages in the folder that contains it (likely your inbox?) when Live One Care finds the infection are gone. Since OE makes a separate .dbx file for each folder, messages in other folders may survive.

Microsoft is quoted as saying they know that's how it works. They say it's a "feature."

Blog: Microsoft OneCare Can Eat Your Email is an early report of the Outlook problem.

An "update," previously at One Care Email Update was "temporarily unavailable" a few minutes ago, so maybe there's an update to the update coming. I'll post the link anyway, as it should be back soon.(?)

Vista users can find many of the features that Outlook provided, without using Outlook. Anyone so afflicted might be interested in Living an Outlook Free Life with Windows Vista

John