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I'm curious. Are you attempting to use Mailwasher with your regular ISP
email, or with a webmail server? ie. Hotmail or Yahoo? "Ruth in Happy Camp" wrote in message ... I downloaded MailWasher a few days ago. I ran into trouble when I was asked to insert user name and password. One or both (did not specify which) was not accepted. The user name that was "automatically" inserted was wrong, but I tried that too and still got rejected. -- Ruth in Happy Camp "Donna in Idaho (remove invalid)" wrote in message ... Ruth, that's the reason you need to get MailWasher as soon as possible. You don't have to wait for all those attachments to download when you use MailWasher. Their site is still under construction - I just checked. I would guess that they have been inundated with download requests since this new round of 'crap' started. Here's the e-mail address listed on the 'under construction' page: Don't know whether it would work or not, but you could e-mail them and ask how you can get their program now. -- Donna in Idaho! Project Linus Boise/SW Idaho Coordinator Website: http://donnakwilts.tripod.com/ Remove ".remove.invalid" to reply The ultimate inspiration is the deadline! "Ruth in Happy Camp" wrote in message ... Advice received from a MS employee (married to my grand-niece): ignore them. HE's not the one who has to wait 1 to 2 hours for them to download! (Any suggestions as to how I might get HIM on their list?) -- Ruth in Happy Camp "Kate Dicey" wrote in message ... Barbara Vaughan wrote: Monique Reed wrote: Today I got an e-mail supposedly from Microsoft Tech Support that contained what was alleged to be a security patch for their system. What the attachment contained was, in fact, a virus so new that many antivirus programs don't detect it.... [snip] A few common-sense things to remember about emails and the viruses that come with them. 1) It is very easy to make an email appear to come from somewhere different than the real source. Do not assume, just because the email says it is from Microsoft, Apple, Norton/Symantec, McAfee, or some other source that you might ordinarily trust, that it really is from that company... Actually, if it says it's from Microsoft, you can be very sure that it's faked. They never send out emails to their clients. I believe the same is true of Norton. Both advise you of updates when you open their software. I have been getting scores of these fake Microsoft emails for weeks now. Today the quantity actually quadupled, so that I have well over 50 in less than 24 hours. At this point, my email is becoming paralyzed by the sheer quantity, quite aside from the viruses. (And yes, I use an anti-spam software, but it's far from perfect.) Barbara Ha!! I came back from the weekend away to find over 3000 emails, almost all of which were this thing with variations on the tile and sender. DH set me up with Mail Washer so I can pick them off at the server without having to download them. Still took an hour to sort it out. Bloody pain... Mutter mutter mutter... -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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I use it with my regular ISP mail. I don't thnk you can set it up for
Yahoo. -- Donna in Idaho! Project Linus Boise/SW Idaho Coordinator Website: http://donnakwilts.tripod.com/ Remove ".remove.invalid" to reply The ultimate inspiration is the deadline! "earthmagic" wrote in message ... I'm curious. Are you attempting to use Mailwasher with your regular ISP email, or with a webmail server? ie. Hotmail or Yahoo? "Ruth in Happy Camp" wrote in message ... I downloaded MailWasher a few days ago. I ran into trouble when I was asked to insert user name and password. One or both (did not specify which) was not accepted. The user name that was "automatically" inserted was wrong, but I tried that too and still got rejected. -- Ruth in Happy Camp "Donna in Idaho (remove invalid)" wrote in message ... Ruth, that's the reason you need to get MailWasher as soon as possible. You don't have to wait for all those attachments to download when you use MailWasher. Their site is still under construction - I just checked. I would guess that they have been inundated with download requests since this new round of 'crap' started. Here's the e-mail address listed on the 'under construction' page: Don't know whether it would work or not, but you could e-mail them and ask how you can get their program now. -- Donna in Idaho! Project Linus Boise/SW Idaho Coordinator Website: http://donnakwilts.tripod.com/ Remove ".remove.invalid" to reply The ultimate inspiration is the deadline! "Ruth in Happy Camp" wrote in message ... Advice received from a MS employee (married to my grand-niece): ignore them. HE's not the one who has to wait 1 to 2 hours for them to download! (Any suggestions as to how I might get HIM on their list?) -- Ruth in Happy Camp "Kate Dicey" wrote in message ... Barbara Vaughan wrote: Monique Reed wrote: Today I got an e-mail supposedly from Microsoft Tech Support that contained what was alleged to be a security patch for their system. What the attachment contained was, in fact, a virus so new that many antivirus programs don't detect it.... [snip] A few common-sense things to remember about emails and the viruses that come with them. 1) It is very easy to make an email appear to come from somewhere different than the real source. Do not assume, just because the email says it is from Microsoft, Apple, Norton/Symantec, McAfee, or some other source that you might ordinarily trust, that it really is from that company... Actually, if it says it's from Microsoft, you can be very sure that it's faked. They never send out emails to their clients. I believe the same is true of Norton. Both advise you of updates when you open their software. I have been getting scores of these fake Microsoft emails for weeks now. Today the quantity actually quadupled, so that I have well over 50 in less than 24 hours. At this point, my email is becoming paralyzed by the sheer quantity, quite aside from the viruses. (And yes, I use an anti-spam software, but it's far from perfect.) Barbara Ha!! I came back from the weekend away to find over 3000 emails, almost all of which were this thing with variations on the tile and sender. DH set me up with Mail Washer so I can pick them off at the server without having to download them. Still took an hour to sort it out. Bloody pain... Mutter mutter mutter... -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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easier said than done. i don't think she is computer literate enough to
download software. I am sure she has some, the problem is that I doubt she updates her virus definitions regularly. Shelly wrote: Tell your mom to download AVG antivirus software, it's totally free. No one should be without an antivirus program these days. This is what I use because I hate Norton and the other very popular one that eludes me at the moment. lol These two very popular programs interfere too much with other programs and just didn't work for me. Shelly "Dr. Quilter" wrote in message ... I am getting a few of these too, maybe four of each since I got back from my trip. The odd thing is that the UW webserver is not stopping them, usually very little stuff gets through. I am also getting a lot of messages about intercepted viruses, so I guess it is working some of the time. Please download real patches and update your virus definitions even before the automatic update as other people have already said! I am really scared for my mom, at least she is running an old version of Windows and they seem to target those less than more recent ones, but she can't afford to pay for a current virus software down there and only does it occasionally... had to wipe her computer clean a few months ago... Ruth.C wrote: Thank you Monique for the update. All day I have been deleting these messages from my computer. So far I have had 52 Security notices telling me to download September Cumulative Patch and 48 retuned mail notices for mail I haven't sent. I am using Windows ME and Microsoft reckons it doesn't affect ME, but it must be out there somewhere. I warned my family, as all these messages come with attachments, and I don't open those things. It's getting very boring deleting the things. Cheers, Ruth C NSW -- Dr. Quilter Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.520 / Virus Database: 318 - Release Date: 9/18/03 -- Dr. Quilter Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens |
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I didn't dare respond earlier for fear I'd pass on whatever ailed my
computer. I don't know one server from another. Mine is the only one available to me that has a local (toll-free) number. It is 'dial-up networking' through my telephone company. -- Ruth in Happy Camp "earthmagic" wrote in message ... I'm curious. Are you attempting to use Mailwasher with your regular ISP email, or with a webmail server? ie. Hotmail or Yahoo? "Ruth in Happy Camp" wrote in message ... I downloaded MailWasher a few days ago. I ran into trouble when I was asked to insert user name and password. One or both (did not specify which) was not accepted. The user name that was "automatically" inserted was wrong, but I tried that too and still got rejected. -- Ruth in Happy Camp "Donna in Idaho (remove invalid)" wrote in message ... Ruth, that's the reason you need to get MailWasher as soon as possible. You don't have to wait for all those attachments to download when you use MailWasher. Their site is still under construction - I just checked. I would guess that they have been inundated with download requests since this new round of 'crap' started. Here's the e-mail address listed on the 'under construction' page: Don't know whether it would work or not, but you could e-mail them and ask how you can get their program now. -- Donna in Idaho! Project Linus Boise/SW Idaho Coordinator Website: http://donnakwilts.tripod.com/ Remove ".remove.invalid" to reply The ultimate inspiration is the deadline! "Ruth in Happy Camp" wrote in message ... Advice received from a MS employee (married to my grand-niece): ignore them. HE's not the one who has to wait 1 to 2 hours for them to download! (Any suggestions as to how I might get HIM on their list?) -- Ruth in Happy Camp "Kate Dicey" wrote in message ... Barbara Vaughan wrote: Monique Reed wrote: Today I got an e-mail supposedly from Microsoft Tech Support that contained what was alleged to be a security patch for their system. What the attachment contained was, in fact, a virus so new that many antivirus programs don't detect it.... [snip] A few common-sense things to remember about emails and the viruses that come with them. 1) It is very easy to make an email appear to come from somewhere different than the real source. Do not assume, just because the email says it is from Microsoft, Apple, Norton/Symantec, McAfee, or some other source that you might ordinarily trust, that it really is from that company... Actually, if it says it's from Microsoft, you can be very sure that it's faked. They never send out emails to their clients. I believe the same is true of Norton. Both advise you of updates when you open their software. I have been getting scores of these fake Microsoft emails for weeks now. Today the quantity actually quadupled, so that I have well over 50 in less than 24 hours. At this point, my email is becoming paralyzed by the sheer quantity, quite aside from the viruses. (And yes, I use an anti-spam software, but it's far from perfect.) Barbara Ha!! I came back from the weekend away to find over 3000 emails, almost all of which were this thing with variations on the tile and sender. DH set me up with Mail Washer so I can pick them off at the server without having to download them. Still took an hour to sort it out. Bloody pain... Mutter mutter mutter... -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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