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I’ve seen a number of emails recently which appear to be from Microsoft with advice about a critical patch you need to install.  

The latest one was titled “Install Critical Update for Microsoft Outlook” regarding patch “officexp-KB910721-FullFile-ENU.exe“

Delete these emails – they’re not legit!   MS would never email you with advice like this as you should be using automatic updates to receive any patches from them.

TIP:

If you hover your mouse over the link in the email – you’ll see that it doesn’t actually link back to Microsoft – instead it links back to a random address that “looks” like Microsoft.  In my example it was linking to a site along the lines of update.microsoft.com.1lfx.mx.com.   If you don’t pay attention – it’s easy to miss the “1lfx.mx.com” and think that this is linking to MS.

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Just ran an update to 3.0 on my Iphone.   Seemed to go through pretty smoothly.  I didn’t time it, but would say it took about 20 min.    You need to upgrade to the latest ITunes first though so that takes a little while + a reboot.

Noticing a few tweaks here and there, but I think I’ll really need to use it over the next week or so really start seeing the difference.

Nice touch that you don’t loose all your settings when applying the firmware update (as I’ve seen many times on Windows Mobiles).

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Another update on the problem with Internet Explorer missing keystrokes.    Doing some more research I found another reference to the problem – specific to Sony VAIO laptops.   As suspected in the earlier post – the problem is down to the fingerprint reader software.

Here’s the post with the solution:

http://bwain-dump.blogspot.com/2009/02/sony-vaiointernet-explorer-typing.html

I’ve run through the steps in this post and haven’t had a dropped keypress yet – so looks like it’s finally fixed!

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