Topic: mail failure

[Barra]

Cheers Dack. If I can work up the courage to download a possible virus I'll check it. I don't use mailwasher as I either couldn't get it to work with incredimail or couldn't be bothered-can't remember now!

[Simon]

I use Mailwasher, and I can confirm it does work with Incredimail.  You just have to set IM as your e-mail client in MW options.

I also believe that 'bouncing' is not always the best option, and I tend to just delete stuff I don't want to download.  I'm having a problem at the moment, getting lots of spam e-mails from different '@yahoo' addresses.  I bounced the first few, but then they started to increase, so now I'm just deleting them.  I seem to remember someone else had a problem with '@yahoo' addresses, but I can't remember what the solution was.  I probably get about 10 a day, which is nothing compared to the scale of Ade's problem, but annoying all the same.

[Barra]

Update:-
   I've been waiting for one to turnup in my inbox all day but not had appeared. I thought great, they've gone away. Then I remembered I had used the message rules to block them and found 28 of them in my deleted folder. :-[
 I saved the attachments and found them to contain no viruses- opened 2 to make sure- but found a link to a porn site in email+link form and also a dat file. So I'm no wiser.

[Clive]

Mrs Clive received a pile of .dat files from a reliable source the other day but couldn't open them with any of the software programs she has on her PC.  All I could find when I did a Google search were references to antivirus software which wasn't particularly helpful.  Then, in a stroke of genius, she transferred them to her Apple laptop and they turned out to be AppleWorks files which all opened without any problem.

[Barra]

Right I'll nip out and buy a laptop then!

[Barra]

Update now i can get back on site due to lost paasword.
 This little problem has resolved itself.

Now I have another little problem instead. >

I was receiving emails that were opening ie windows that wouldn't close even by using the ctrl,alt del. These popups happened even while running popup stopper and Norton.
My homepage was hijacked to a websearch engine. I won't put the url in in case it hits your pcs as well. This was only a minor problem. The real problem was that it has created a new toolbar called "eannllufafa". This appears as a search window and icons for various sites. I keep unticking it from view-toolbars but each time I open a new window or visit a new site in same window it reappeared. I even "upgraded"-and I use the term loosely to IE6 from 5.5.
So, has anyone any idea how to permanently get rid of it? And NO! Any suggestion of just installing a different browser- you listening Simon! > - will be treated with the contempt it deserves.
I thank you my readers in advance

[Rodders]

Install Spybot Search & Destroy, Barra.  Then let us know how it goes, would you?  

[Sandra]

There is a way in REGEDIT to delete it but I cant think where I started from or the path I followed to do it when I had a similar problem  

[Rodders]

Spybot should set the 'kill bit' in the registry if everything works according to plan.

[Simon]

And NO! Any suggestion of just installing a different browser- you listening Simon!  - will be treated with the contempt it deserves.

 

[Barra]

 

Yeah you!

Install Spybot Search & Destroy, Barra.  Then let us know how it goes, would you?

What am I, a guinea pig?

[Adept]

Don't forget, with Spybot S&D you must run the online function to check for the latest detection information and then run Immunize before checking your PC for spyware

HTH

[Simon]

What's HTH?  

[Adept]

What's HTH?  

Hope this helps

[Simon]

Ahhh!   Not Hide The Hamster.