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Paypal Email Crashes Outlook
Posted by Christopher in Nerd Stuff, Work Stuff on October 15, 2011
A few days ago my Outlook 2007 would lockup once and a while. Thinking it was a PST issue, I rebuilt it, move to a backup computer but the issue continued.
After many hours of research and I was able to identify the issue and a solution. Google didnt have anything on the issue so I wanted to share it. —UPDATE- There is a bit of data on the Paypal forum now–
If Outlook, Incredimail or other email client crashes when you try to open or preview a Paypal email, (issue started 10-12-2011) the problem is the tracking pixel inserted into the HTML email. You can view these emails in text format or put a entry in your HOSTS file to avoid having Paypal track your email.
HOST File Fix for Paypal Crashing Outlook;
- Run Notepad.exe as an administrator
- Open the file HOSTS at this location – C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
- Add the line below to the end of the file
- 127.0.0.1 102.112.2o7.net (just copy and paste it as the one of the zeros is actually a “O”)
- Save the file
- Enjoy a crash free Outlook experience for now
Paypal has a history of rolling out half backed solutions and taking months to resolve the issues caused. I expect this to be a irritating issue for many people and that it takes months to resolve.
iWater (if Apple made water)
Posted by Christopher in Nerd Stuff on February 20, 2011
Saw this great graphic about Apple and wanted to share it.
via http://johnburke.tumblr.com/post/3193501324
Mozy is dead to me.
Posted by Christopher in Nerd Stuff on February 10, 2011
My consulting company (ChristopherHudson.com) has seen a recent rash of clients having hard drive failures. About 70% of these drives are recoverable using some higher end software tools (Spinrite, ect) but my data recovery rates make this an expensive option.
This is why I have all my core clients on a offsite storage system. For personal offsite backup I used to recommend they use a service called MOZY. Mozy used to be $4.99 for unlimited offsite storage and made a big deal about their service being reliable. I have sent many friends and clients (company accounts don’t work with the MOZY personal and require a more expensive account) to MOZY.com
Over the past few years I have learned that Mozy’s;
- Their recovery service is not reliable. Recovery is a pain and has a few critical flaws resulting in long delays. One recovery process took them 11 days to complete because of corruption on their side.
- Their backup service is not reliable. I and others find that we have to force MOZY to backup at least once a month.
Now, Mozy has decided to increase their costs to the clients that put them on the map. Not a small increase but a fundamental change in the pricing scheme. Instead of unlimited….now it is 50GB and costs more.
A fellow consultant (Barak Tutterrow), has had great success with the BackBlaze backup service.
The link is below and I am upgrading to them this weekend because they have an unlimited plan, backup external drives and have a better reputation for reliability.
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