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Thunderbird Email Client
« on: 06 November 2012, 17:46:26 »

words of warning ref. the above, have tried to download thunderbird from softsonic and have had. all my browsers hijacked by Plus Networks which i'm finding extremely difficult to remove. have raised the issue with mozilla and am awaiting the outcome !
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Re: Thunderbird Email Client
« Reply #1 on: 06 November 2012, 18:05:01 »

I have mine sat on my desktop without any issues for ages, I downloaded mine ages ago though
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Re: Thunderbird Email Client
« Reply #2 on: 06 November 2012, 18:17:18 »

I'm an Outlook man myself, but I have just downloaded the latest version (16.0.2) of Thunderbird from the official link provided by Mozilla, installed it, and can categorically say that there is no evidence whatsoever on my system of any type of software "drive by" installation present.

 
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Re: Thunderbird Email Client
« Reply #3 on: 06 November 2012, 18:18:02 »

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Re: Thunderbird Email Client
« Reply #4 on: 06 November 2012, 18:32:53 »

If you donwload software from any dodgy links, you are asking for trouble.  Always use the official link from the developers :y
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Re: Thunderbird Email Client
« Reply #5 on: 06 November 2012, 18:42:25 »

As an aside, Windows 7 does not have it's own email client, like Outlook Express was included with XP. So there are lots of people out there looking for clients like Thunderbird, so more dodgy sites that seem to have them but don't, they just con you into downloading crap.
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Re: Thunderbird Email Client
« Reply #6 on: 06 November 2012, 18:48:49 »

i normally do, but unfortunately it would appear that on this occasion i didn't download from mozilla direct but from a third party site, and i've now got to sort the mess out ! i needed a seperate email account for work reasons and having used firefox for many years thought i'd try thunderbird, now at my cost. bless the trojan writers!!!!!
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Re: Thunderbird Email Client
« Reply #7 on: 06 November 2012, 19:05:51 »

As an aside, Windows 7 does not have it's own email client, like Outlook Express was included with XP. So there are lots of people out there looking for clients like Thunderbird, so more dodgy sites that seem to have them but don't, they just con you into downloading crap.
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Live Mail is a seperate download from MS - not sure if taking it out of the Windows package was forced, or if they felt they could force users to at least start off with a recent, secure version...
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Re: Thunderbird Email Client
« Reply #8 on: 06 November 2012, 20:32:43 »

Your mistake was downloading it from some shitty 3rd party. Should have got it here:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/thunderbird/
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Re: Thunderbird Email Client
« Reply #9 on: 06 November 2012, 21:36:10 »

words of warning ref. the above, have tried to download thunderbird from softsonic and have had. all my browsers hijacked by Plus Networks which i'm finding extremely difficult to remove. have raised the issue with mozilla and am awaiting the outcome !

Whats it go to do with Mozilla if you didn't download it from their site?  Should have used the "official" download site not some arbitary download site.  Sorry no sympathy  ::)
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Re: Thunderbird Email Client
« Reply #10 on: 06 November 2012, 21:45:01 »

I suggest backup what you need, wipe the PC and start again if you are having issues removing the spyware
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