I have a one month old PC with Vista Home Premium and Outlook 2007. As
nearly as I have been able to figure out through elimination, the Junk mail
update (Sept 2007) leads to loss of Outlook. Outlook suddenly goes "crazy"
and the only way I can get it to stop it to cut the power. Then I reboot and
run scanpst.exe to repair the Outlook.pst file. It doesn't happen just by
starting Outlook or by sending and receiving messages--as nearly as I can
tell, based on two occurrences, it is associated with sending a message with
a file attached.
The August Junk E-mail filter update was installed in late August--no
obvious problems.
I should mention that I cannot rule out Windows Malicious Software Removal
Tool (Sept 2007) KB890830 as a candidate for the problem, but that particular
update is on my two XP machines with no problem and also the E-mail filter
update seems to be a much more logical candidate.
I have disabled automatic installing of Windows updates for now. I have
three updates in queue which have been downloaded (the two mentioned above
plus one which came later after the problem arose).
1. Has this happened to anyone else?
2. Any advice? If no one has any ideas, please advise on how maybe I can
proceed (call Microsoft, call Dell, etc.)