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A friend has used Outlook 2003 SP3 on Win 7 to manage email for 10 years and likes it just fine. She uses MS Security Essentials and while she follows links to video sites sent by friends in an email, tends to avoid high risk peer-to-peer Web sites and the like. She would like to know if she needs to upgrade her copy of MS Office 2003 to a newer version after April 8 when the support ends or stay with what she knows. She has never contacted MS for technical support. Thanks, Paul

I completely agree. I will turn off email in HTML by default; i think it will be safe. If you read and compose only in text, it should not be in problem. The only thing is if you need/want to read/write in HTML then you can be exposed. If you read the HTML source of your email and check there is no funny sites in your email.

Maybe this will be of use to you:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-outlook/cant-search-emails-in-outlook-2010/92f26632-5ad5-4a00-a499-4f57b978c5ad

Fred, I disagree with you that hiding SSID will do much with securing your wireless network. SSID has to be included with beacon frame of 802.11 communication. It is in the clear and anybody with read it with proper tool that is freely available (airsnort, wire shark). MAC filtering also easy to defeat too. it involves no software in Windows except changing the settings of the wireless network card.

Go to somebody else’s computer and try to sign in. I think you have some malware. Once you got infected, none of the AV/Malware scanner will help you.

ok, I think other people had helped you with the desktop background but why don’t he update java or anti-virus? Does it have admin level privilege on his account? Also, I suggest you change from Superantivirus to Microsoft security essentials. Much more proven. Since it is Vista, I presume it is a legit copy otherwise MSE just won’t install.

Any anybody look at Evernote? Is it a better alternative to Dropbox? I know it doesn’t have as much file capacity as Dropbox but I think they absolutely have security in mind when they design their system. Here is a page from their blog in 2008

http://blog.evernote.com/2008/04/15/evernote-privacy-and-security/

I think balance should be call for in there. I use Facebook mostly for keeping in contact with old friends. I do all my personal data in there. Or at least, I obfuscate my data. Answer the least amt of info I can get away with. And I deliberately harden myself against advertising on sites like Google. Remember that you get what you pay for. There is no such thing as “free” service. I have two gmail accounts, one for setting looking at my igoogle homepage and one gmail for sending and receiving email. And even then, I use it in imap mode so I don’t have see the ad’s. I own my domain and host my email server. While this is not hack proof; it does bring the bar high enough so I don’t have to worry much about spam. If you worry about data corrected on your smart phone. You can always turn it off unless you have to use it.

you know, my advice to my friends who encounter this problem. save any documents you have open in the background and then hit the reset button, I’m sure it will be gone that way. yes, it is not a “clean” way to shutdown your PC but then again, you most likely will not be infected (and I say very very likely). As for using UPS, why don’t you sign onto their website to see if they send you an email. I always disgard msg from ups

hi, can you logout by ip address? I’m not familiar with term service but does it have ability to figure out if the ip of the request client is not within the company’s ip address range, it will just block the accessing of the data. Or give the user a different user name/account when they are using at home. eg: at work sign in as joe and home joe-home.

Is it possible to configure Terminal Services within SBS2008, so a user who accesses a network server from the office where the physical network is located, but also remotely, has different access rights in each case?

The scenario I wish to implement is one where there would be areas of the server drives which they would not be able to access remotely, but would be able to when they are in the office.

Thanks in anticipation.

Neil

After getting “stuck” with Windows XP original version key which wouldn’t allow update to SP2 several years ago, I bought a “Genuine” version directly from Microsoft.

Purchased a new system a few years ago with (ugh) Vista on it so XP was relegated to my backup system. After replacing a defective motherboard and slipstreaming SP3 I installed and activated XP with no problems.

Many of these problems could be eliminated if major vendors sold systems with no OS on them with a coupon permitting the buyer to purchase any retail version of Windows 7 at a discounted price within 30 days. Even better simply provide a retail install disk and key instead of an OEM key. M$ still gets their money.

BTW I have replaced Vista on both my main system and laptop with Win 7. I have two retail copies bought during a half-price sale in 2009. I have the install disks and product keys.

Not allowing you to update to sp2? What was the error msg? Any
How all my pc is now using win 7

I think I know the reason why WGA failed is because you key for xp pro is keyed for a sp2 installed. when you slip stream sp3 in there, the wga system will say there is mis-match disk to serial #. I’m very certain of this as I tried installing a oem xp pro w/sp3 disk with the key from a completely sp2 legit sticker. when i switch on a disk with only sp2, it validated with no problem. fyi, you actually can use the key on the xp pro sticker on the back of your thinkpad as long as it is for the same version and sp of xp. you actually can use a xp sp1 key on a sp2 disk. but xp sp3 disk only work with sp3 key. personally, i will use the stock xp install of Lenovo. It is the ONLY laptop manufacturer that don’t bloat up their install with junk. mind you, i only have experience with their business T and X series.

No Windows update? You want the customer to get malware?

I’ve been called out to REPAIR several PC’s that were 100% legal, but WGA had reared its ugly head and told the user they were using an Illegal copy of windows. The quick fix was a twofold solution. First I ran a little routine to remove WGA from the computer, then I shut off Auto Updates. End of problem!

Most people in the world can get along nicely without ever another MS Update, till H*** freezes over. I know danged well, I can.

Happy New Year Mates!
The Doctor

I had been around PC since 1986. Most of the time I use Windows but I now use an iMac running SL. I find it humorous that people saying MS is forcing people to upgrade to W7. Actually, they are not forcing you to upgrade to anything. What they won’t do is pushing out more fixes for XP. Your XP will still work! It’s just that MS will not make fixes for it. It is like a 20 y.o. car, the original manufacturer is not oblige to make any more parts for it after 20 years. There are a lot of new features in W7, some of them features wise and some of them security that cannot be retrofit into XP. Look at it this way, XP last 10 years while Mac’s went from OS 9 to OS X (from Cheetah to Snow). Unless you buy a new mac everytime Mac OS changes, you have to buy a copy of OS X for $ 30 to 100. If you add all that up money up, that is $ 450 while you only paid MS $ 150. That’s on top of extra $ you have to pay for a Mac of same computing power. W7 actually run very nicely on my 3 years old Thinkpad, except for replacing my mechanical hard drive with a solid state one( $ 130 including taxes, it actually runs FASTER than when it was running XP. It take 45 seconds from the screen go black to when the machine is ready to use (and that includes starting Outlook 2007!). Yes, there is a learning curve and some software won’t run but that’s price of progress. W7 is more secure than XP, For example, a non-admin user can run the computer without major inconveniences. Give W7 a chance, it is new and it will have some growing pains. But that’s progress!

I’ll not upgrade for a couple of reasons.
First of all I have a ton of software that will not run in Windows 7, and it would cost thousands of dollars to update the software that can be updated.
The second, and most important reason, is I do not want to give Bill Gates anymore money. Ever since he became the richest man in the world he joined the Bilderburg group which is the secretive group of the richest people on Earth who, because of their great wealth, believe that gives them the right to rule the Earth and control the rest of us. Bill Gates will never see another dime from me.

But the next richest man is Steve Job. Are you not using Apple product too?