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A word to Tbird early adopters - upgrade to 1.2

I spent all day helping my dad with taxes and life-transiton paperwork. His move was back in Dec but he’s somehow still stuck in that process.

When I came back last night, I had this angry pop up (from my lame ass daily-”renew-me-now”-even-with-1-full-month-remaining Norton Anti-Virus SW, but that’s another blog post) saying I had cooties! Viruses in my inbox!

Viruses in Thunderbird?? What gives? I’ve got a new Sony Vaio back in March (thus trial Norton subscription, hello Grisoft), where I’ve deliberately not set up mail in Outlook because of viruses.

It’s remarkable to see them in Tbird. I can’t I find confirmation online but this is the first time I’ve ever seen a virus come thru Tbird (or Moz mail for that matter) and trip scan engines, let alone ones that could not be fixed. Odd. Further proof that everything breaks down during tax season.

The best bet is to download the latest. They’re on 1.2 now.

Comparatively, I’d say that Thunderbird has proven highly stable. At this early point, it seems to me that even Mozilla suite was still doing that gradual degradation thing, where I found a fresh install every 2-3 months helped.

And on that note - it’s probably good to remind all the Firefox adopters too that 1.0.2 is out as well.