viruses list? "Jassim Rahma" <jrahma[ at ]hotmail.com> 7/13/2007 8:04:47 PM why Microsoft dosn't provide offline virus list supported in Live OneCare instead of forcing users to connect to internet to check the virus details?

Re: viruses list? "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~[ at ]Verizon.Net> 7/13/2007 8:51:55 PM From: "Jassim Rahma" <jrahma[ at ]hotmail.com> | why Microsoft dosn't provide offline virus list supported in Live OneCare | instead of forcing users to connect to internet to check the virus details? Microsoft does NOT have the mindset for being an anti virus company. However you find all anti virus comapnies habve their respective libraries/ecyclopedias online. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

Re: viruses list? Peter Flindt <newsgroups[ at ]lastwebpage.de> 7/13/2007 9:17:01 PM David H. Lipman wrote at 13.07.2007 : [Quoted Text] > From: "Jassim Rahma" <jrahma[ at ]hotmail.com> >> why Microsoft dosn't provide ****OFFLINE**** virus list supported in Live >> OneCare instead of forcing users to connect to internet to check the virus >> details? > Microsoft does NOT have the mindset for being an anti virus company. However > you find all anti virus comapnies habve their respective > libraries/ecyclopedias ***ONLINE***. Either I not understand the the question or the answer.... If you want to use ONLINE virus details you can use http://onecare.live.com and/ or http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/ Show Virus details in "offline mode" too? I am not sure, but what's the benefit for it? It's possible that you get not the actual infos, and you should be online for onecare or vista/XP updates (The OS and OneCare search each day for updates), and I don't know how many virus can OneCare detect, but for each of them a detailed offline description, that would be alarge file and this large file must be updated too. Btw. most of the other security programs do the same, you get the virus details only online. Peter

Re: viruses list? "artfudd" <notreal[ at ]noplace.nil> 7/14/2007 12:00:19 AM Does any other antivirus maker supply an offline list of all the viruses they protect against? -- Art (artfudd) ------------- "Jassim Rahma" <jrahma[ at ]hotmail.com> wrote in message news:94ABE4B8-6311-48CA-875F-34A342B5777C[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > why Microsoft dosn't provide offline virus list supported in Live OneCare > instead of forcing users to connect to internet to check the virus > details?