When I opened my mail this morning, I found a message pretending to be from Microsoft. It offered me to install a Critical Update for Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express (KB910721), and also sent the download link.
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Now back: Attaching photos to messages in Hotmail
Turned off last month due to a security issue with Internet Explorer and Active X, the Photo feature for Windows Live Hotmail has now been fixed and made available again. The Windows Live Team announces: Instead of adding pictures as attachments to your Hotmail messages by clicking Attach and then
Windows 7 browser ballot screen accepted by European Union
Microsoft may distribute Windows 7 with the browser ballot screen proposed by the Windows team. The European Commission accepted the offer. From Windows 7 onwards, the user sees a selection dialog to install other browsers than Internet Explorer, when they set up the system. Within the dialog, the 5 most
Messenger problems: Your login data can’t be remembered?
If Messenger doesn’t remember your e-mail address or your password, then you have installed both Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. You have to revert a registry setting that has been changed while Yahoo Messenger was installing. Then you will be able to store your sign-in credentials again. Here is
How-to: Change your Windows Live password
More than 20,000 Windows Live account credentials were published recently. That is why you should change your own password, even if your account was not among them. Here is how to change your password using the Windows Live account center. Open the Windows Live account center at https://account.live.com/ChangePassword.aspx. If prompted,
This Week’s Thoughts: Hidden data
Many people send texts, spreadsheets, photos and videos—while not knowing that they contain much information that other people can discover with ease and that might be indiscreet. Who has collaborated on the text? How often has it been revised? What camera and aperture has been used to take the photo?
The days are numbered for Messenger 2008
In this post: End of Life reached What people think Technical reasons Get Messenger 2009 In case of problems End of Life reached Starting September 15, 2009, users are required to have the latest version of Messenger installed on their computer in order to sign in and continue using the
Messenger: more information about messages not being sent problem
In the last hours, the number of people with problems to send instant messages through Windows Live Messenger’s network has greatly increased, fact that alerted the Windows Live Messenger team about possible server problems. The problem seems to have been solved, as said at MessengerSays blog, and we’ve been getting
So geht’s: Unterwegs sicher bleiben im Internet
Wenn es nur um deinen eigenen Computer geht, ist alles normalerweise nicht ganz so tragisch. Doch wenn du nicht zuhause bist, zum Beispiel wenn du das Internet bei einem Freund, in der Schule oder in der Bücherei nutzt, solltest du dir schon Gedanken über SIcherheit und die Privatsphäre deiner Daten
How-to: Staying secure on the Web while being abroad
When it’s all about your own computer, things are normally not that important. But when you are abroad, for example using the Web on your friend’s computer or in a public school or library, you should be concerned about the security and privacy of your data. Especially when you want