Stories tagged as "Outlook"

Outlook 2007

Posted by liquilife on 11/13 at 12:49 AM

I recently decided to give Outlook 2007 a go. Having used Outlook 2003 with Gmail I was pretty excited for this huge update. I, however, ran into a strange issue. I COULD NOT get Gmail configured correctly. My username and password was denied from the Gmail pop and smtp server. After many hours of searching I stumbled across this posting in Google Groups that recomended you visit the Google captcha unlock page. The what? Anyways, the URL was definitely google and the page included a captcha form. I filled it out and Outlook 2007 downloaded my Gmail and continued to work like a charm. The question remains for now as to how my account got locked in the first place. Strange indeed.

Why am I posting this? I am sure this will happen to others as Office 2007 becomes more widespread. It is my hopes that when you search Gmail issues this will be a quick solution.

Google Captcha unlock page
New group posting

Posted by liquilife on 11/13 at 12:49 AM | 0 comments | Permalink
Tagged under: solution, outlook, software, gmail, configure

Outlook 2007 and phishing - Failure!

Posted by liquilife on 01/18 at 04:19 AM

I got a wonderful email this morning from “Wells Fargo” notifying me that “In order to be prepared for the smart card upgrade on Visa and MasterCard debit and credit cards and to avoid problems with our ATM services, we have recently introduced additional security measures and upgraded our software.” The problem is that I don’t bank with Wells Fargo but even worse is the fact that this email was an obvious attempt at phishing Wells Fargo account username and passwords. Phishing is nothing new of course but it seems very simple that if a URL is constructed in the email and actually contains a href tag pointing to a different URL that Outlook should be able to flag this as a possible phishing attempt. Seems very straight forward to me. Let us hope that when the final version of Office is released to the public they have this worked out!

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Posted by liquilife on 01/18 at 04:19 AM | 0 comments | Permalink
Tagged under: outlook, software, phishing