Microsoft has finally made a clean breast of a bug in its Windows Live OneCare security suite that is expected to cause users’ e-mail disappear from Outlook and Outlook Express. The Redmond-based giant says that a patch has been brought about in the process, will be provided to OneCare users next week.
The users who were writing on a OneCare support message thread six weeks ago first of all brought the OneCare bug into light. It was claimed that the bug was deleting Outlook and Outlook Express data files-.pst and .dbx files, correspondingly, after a malware scan was conducted.
The user, Kevin Kimp, wrote in an e-mail to Computerworld that the program performed a timely update and thereafter performed the normal scanning process on his hard drive, when next time he opened Microsoft Outlook, he received a message maintaining that Outlook was not capable of detecting the file outlook.pst.
