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Microsoft has admitted that its Live OneCare security suite has been accidentally deleting some users’ Outlook and Outlook Express e-mails.

According to postings on Microsoft’s OneCare forum, erasures have been caused when the antivirus programme finds a virus in an e-mail attachment. Instead of then quarantining that single e-mail, users have reported that entire .pst or .dbx files -— the personal folder where non-Exchange Server users’ messages and other details are kept -— have been quarantined or, in some cases, even deleted.

One user commented on the forum: “Is there a chance to recover it? If not, OneCare will have done more damage than any virus in my 30 years of active computing.

One reason why anti-virus programs phail.  Another reason is that anyone experienced enough knows how easy it is to bypass anti-virus software...

But be honest. Who uses Microsoft Outlook anyway?

I use Outlook 2007
but my antivirus software is Norton Antivirus 07. :yipi:

i never use any anti virus software. if i have a virus, i install one and delete every infected file and reformat, i reformat at least 5x a year anyway.

5x a year?!?!  Wow.  I don't reformat in like 3 years...  Only when I get a new comp - I have so much set up I can't be bothered re-doing everything.

Best thing - be smart and don't get viruses.  If a file looks dodgey (that's posted on a forum) let other people test it out first XD.
Also, download from respectable sites.

IMO, it's really hard to get a virus - I've never got one, only when I was actually actively searching for one...

I really need to use an email client, but since I rarely actually send email, I'm too lazy...

it isrly hard to get a virus unless ur a dumbass. i do tend to be careless though, browsing through crack and warez sites doesn't help protect you against malware (oh well, firefox does) i use gmail and I like the web based client so i don't have ms outcrap either.