Installing Windows Live Essentials

Frogboy

Join Date 03/2001

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Installing Windows Live Essentials

Well I’m taking the plunge and installing Windows Live Essentials. I’ve been a big fan of Windows Live but as has been the tendency with Microsoft these past few years, they let Live die on the vine a little bit and I found myself migrating to Google apps more and more.

What Microsoft needs to do is relearn what made them so successful in the first place: Commitment. Microsoft was notorious for sticking with things until they got it right. Now, heh, even I don’t worry about Microsoft “stealing” ideas from us because I’m confident we’ll outlast them. Some exec there will get promoted or transferred or retire and the project will just fade away.

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*shrug* I admit I remember something happening but not the details of it.

I have to see if I can use HTTPS with the WLM client come to think of it, otherwise I'll stop using it now that they have their site performing decently.

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DrJBHL

Join Date 04/2002

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Quoting Lantec,

reply 18

How do you know and how was it hacked? Someone could login and send emails like if they were you?

Yes, and register on websites too. My wife got casino spam on her account that came from mine. I also rec'd a "confirmation" of registration with Kohl's Department store which I did not sign up for.

That sounds not good, Lantec.... could they identity theft you that way?

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Quoting Leo the Lion,

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I recently ditched my Live account and removed everything else Microsoft Live, off my PC's, after my Live email account was hacked. I had a very strong password...........So cannot understand how it happened...........Until I read of quite a few similar stories around! Can you imagine my embarrassment when serious business aquaintances and friends started contacting me to say that they had received my email and thanked me for the 'pointer 'towards the so called 'wonder drug'..........however they would decline on this occassion as they were quite happy with the size of their 'manhood' !!!!!!

Microsoft don't want to know!..............so they can 'poke' Live where the sun don't shine!

Funny you should say that. I just received an e-mail supposedly from a friend, just a slight difference in the header. It had a link to pages similar to what you say. I personally have been using the Microsoft suite since it's inception and have seen all the changes. Live Essentials 2010 is the best so far, as far as Windows Live goes. I do like the messenger program because I can add my own gif images as emoticons.

I also like having a desktop mail program. Sorry but I've tried Thunderbird and will stick the Windows Live Package. I do not think you are making a mistake by installing Essential 2010. Heck, worst off, you can always take it out, but I would be very interested in knowing why, if you do uninstall it please. Maybe a follow up post? Thanks

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Lantec

Join Date 07/2003

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could they identity theft you that way?

I have Lifelock....I had issues with my debit card a couple years ago (Lowe's cashier) and since then I've caught someone trying to spoof me 2 more times. I have an address at 123 Main Street in New York City and someone tried to obtain a Conn. driver's license with my info...

so I don't send anything like that via email.....

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Leo the Lion

Join Date 05/2003

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Quoting Lantec,

reply 25

Considering any open wifi you find has the potential to be used for data mining I would wonder if that's what happened.

Anything's possible........but I don't broadcast my home SSID and use a pretty strong WPA passphrase and MAC address filter. My laptop's running W7 x64 Pro and I use different security setting for public vs private networks. I use MS Security Essentials (memory resident, updated daily, scanned weekly) and to my knowledge haven't had an infection. It's my opinion that my information was compromised elsewhere. Considering the large numbers of people reporting the problem I have to wonder if the "elsewhere" was MS.

Same here and I also have a few additional safeguards in place. The 'elsewhere' has many people suspicious and Microsoft's lack of action does not help

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Leo the Lion

Join Date 05/2003

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