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  • MS10-030 problems for those who hacked Windows Mail

    Posted on February 25th, 2011 at 11:53 woody No comments

    Thanks to SB for pointing me to this article in UK’s PC Review Forum:

    Recently a patch (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978542) was released that addressed a security issue in Windows Mail. Those using Windows Mail in Windows 7 found that Windows Mail no longer functioned properly, as they had hacked the program by replacing the msoe.dll file with one from Vista, thereby de-crippling Windows Mail so it would then function as client application. When the update was applied, the hacked msoe.dll was replaced by a new Windows 7 version of the dll, which again crippled Windows Mail.

    Details at the source. Bottom line: if you hacked Windows Mail, the MS10-030 patch breaks Mail, and you have to re-hack Windows Mail.

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