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Posted on 21 Nov 2008 at 16:04

"Sorry this is a bit off topic but every time I see the name Onecare it always reminds me of Wang Computers. Apparently it wanted to introduce an after-sales repairs service in the States and, I kid you not, it was called 'Wang Care'."

That would be a no, then. It was left to qpw3141 to step in.

"In theory Microsoft should be able to do this better than anyone. It has the ability to modify the OS in any way it chooses. It has the money to pay for the best talent to produce the software.

"It has more customers than anyone else so should get a more complete flow of data relating to problems than anyone else. All that remains to be seen is whether it has the management capability to put those resources together into a package that could see malware become a rapidly diminishing problem on Windows PCs."

BT bans Phorm chatter on its forums

BT's crack PR team played a blinder this week, banning people from chatting about the controversial Phorm rollout on their forums. Our sources on the inside suggest the next stage of this crack plan involves renaming the website TB.com and hoping people are too scared to visit.

Our ever polite forums queued up to be withering.

"How to inflame friends and alienate people - a rough guide to PR by BT," begins gavomatic57.

"It's good to [DELETED BY BT]," pipes in cheysuli.

hjlupton wasn't going to miss this party either: "For BT to go and ban discussion about Phorm on its forums is only going to incense people further. All it's done is increase its workload, as all it will see on the forums now are posts about the banning of posts about Phorm. Smoothly done BT, smoothly done!"

Hang on, you're saying that if we ban our forum members we don't have to do any work next Friday. We like it. See you next week, for a gloriously empty Week in your Words.

Author: Stuart Turton