I am confused and embarrassed.
I had created a bootable USB drive of Ultimate Edition 2.8 a while back to try out. The image was downloaded from a link on DistroWatch. I didn't like it well enough to change from straight Ubuntu, so the drive got tossed into a drawer.
This past weekend, my wife's WindowsXP machine died, so I put together a "loaner" PC for her to use until her system was repaired (she uses Open Source grudgingly). To get it running in the shortest amount of time, I chose the Ultimate Edition stick, because I knew I wouldn't need to download and install any "extras". (Yes, I did change the theme to something more mainstream...)
Yesterday, she called me to say that she was getting a strange "Account Overview" screen when she clicked to log in to Hotmail (see attachment). With the exception of her name, all entries not blurred out are bogus. I had her open Hotmail on my PC, and it logged in correctly. When I got home I tried reinstalling Firefox, but the problem didn't go away until I removed Firefox, deleted the ~/.mozilla folder, and reinstalled Firefox from a new download, using Synaptic, not Ubuntu Software Center.
It is kinda hard convincing her that Linux is safer than Windows when stuff like that happens. I've never seen anything like it on any Linux distro I've ever tried, which numbers in the dozens. Anybody know what happened?