You Don't Want This Windows Update
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversToday, I got an e-mail warning of a new Windows virus and where to get the update to protect against it. Oh, those wicked phishers.
I was immediately suspicious of the e-mail. What surprised me: how much useful information Outlook 2007 offered and how little Windows Live Mail offered.
Some quick background: I had been using Windows Live Mail full-time, but switched to Outlook on Saturday. Five weeks was enough for me. The newer Live Mail version is just as clunky as the old one. It's finicky and bothersome. Not that I like Outlook much better. I still resent that the program killed nearly all competition for e-mail, contact and calendaring. There's some revival, because of cell phones and Web services from companies like Google. But nowhere near enough.
Griping aside, I'm finding Outlook on Windows 7 provides an almost acceptable user experience. The software runs faster and doesn't hog all the system resources, as it has in my testing on Windows XP and Vista. Today's phishing e-mail gave me a reason to actually appreciate Outlook
Both e-mail programs put the message in Junk Mail and blocked images. Even the images could be dangerous in a message like this one, if for nothing more than acting as a Web beacon validating the e-mail address. But Outlook did more, by showing the URL to the images and behind the link text. The link leads to an executable and, whoa, that ain't no Microsoft Web address.
According to Sophos, ldr.exe is a Trojan that changes the registry to load the executable on start-up.
source:
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Comments(6)
go into windows 7 program files folder, delete the 'windows mail' folder, and replace
it with the "windows mail" folder from vista. open that folder, and create a desktop
shortcut and bingo, works great, except you can't set it as the default email program for
some reason. but hey, what else can you do?? i hate windows live and all the crap that
goes along with it, and i don't like outlook because you can't open attachments in
it,.at least from my experience you can't. someone told me thats not true but it was
for me when i tried it a while back. good luck!
ldr.exe is used to update your whoopsass 7 to build 7048!
so where do you get ldr.exe from and what is build 7048?? 64-bit or 32??
never mind i see now in the main message, sorry.
isn't this the kind of shiznit you prevent with a good antivirus software? plus, since
when microsoft sends "windows updates" through emails. what if you check your email on a
mac? duh, that's why every update goes through windows updates, not email. i dont know, i
think this post is useless, counting all the similar phishing emails that go around.
despite the fact that that outlook, or wlm are different, yet, with a good antivirus, you
dont need to worry about this sort of thing...
*just a thought...
i suppose your using internet explorer too!
google chrome rocks.
use an online
mail service like fastmail & good antivirus & spyware sw like avast, avg 7.5, & zonealarm
7.
ps version 8s seem to be jinxed. could windows 8 be a bigger disaster than vista?
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