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#191652 6th Jan 2008 11:08am
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Microsoft have recently emailed a lot of users with this advert and its a fookin scam imho!!! It points towards it being a new version of IE7, with new MSN optimizations... its nothing to do with IE7 (unless you have IE6 I suppose), what it actually does is install the MSN Search toolbar into your IE (which ISNT needed as IE7 already has a search tool), a popup stopper, which again IE7 already has, it changes your homepage to live.com and msn.com and deletes your old homepage settings, and on top of this chucks a ton of links in your favourites above everything that "you" have selected as your favourite.

Oh an it changes your default search provider in IE7 to Live Search...

And worst of all, when you uninstall, you still have to delete all the favourites manually, change your default search provider in IE7 and reset your homepage to the one you want.

And thats only what ive noticed in the last few minutes - i uninstalled it 2 minutes after I installed it last night, because I realised it wasnt anything to do with IE7.

Not on Microsoft! mad

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just microshite again trying to rule the PC world.. Idiots..


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ay glad u put this up as i wuda downloaded it i mean that add looked genuine too me so thanx matt m8 saved me their ! thumbsup


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Its genuine as in it is from Microsoft, and is an official promotion etc... but its utter crud the way they have described it.

It should be clearly promoted as Windows Live toolbar, not a new version of Internet Explorer... IE doesnt even change!

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o i c wat ya sayin yeh but still great job puttin in the warnin as id still of downladed it lol wink


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No problemo fella!

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I did download it but i use firefox so i don't care, the only person who us IE is the missus when she comes round


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ooo..evil....Personally..ive only just recently downloaded windows live messenger..i was always happy with 7.1 or 7.5 or whatever it was......

I tend not to download anything really....


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Im still loving 7.5 myself too. Cba with WLM, ever since it left BETA it has gone downhill imho.

Sounds like another recent Windows product lol.

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don't know what i'm using and don't care, never use it anymore, you will notice i appear offline but really i'm online.

Ha ha fooled you all

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dont think i got your msn any more daz, pm me it


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I hanv't really got any emails from Msn, if i do i usually delete them. I see them as Spam like Dazzz so i bin them but Dazz can stay. I'll stick with my WLM vrsion 8.1 for now the newer version is poo

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i got like 2000 sumet emails in my msn account hahaha just let them rise then delete them all 50 at a time.


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I duno how u's leave it till it piles up. Reason i got a new msn addy now, but am forwarding my old mails to my new one except the junk stuff tease (didn't know they have services like this) dont even have to touch my old account an i have the mails auto sent.

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My old MSN had 7000+ unread emails before I changed to me new one the other week. I blame it on the storage space they give out nowadays, there is never any reason to delete emails.

Mind you I have 1030 unread emails in Outlook Express, with 5062 deleted in the past week, and Nod has found 362 spam emails today alone.

Ahhhh the beauties of spam, this is why im changing my company to support ticketing only! Get rid of emails full stop.

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