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desertrose
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 Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 5:14 pm Post subject: getting hit daily viruses............help! |
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Somebody or whatever has gotten a hold of my email addy and is sending me up to 5 or more viruses daily! Fortunately my Norton has caught them but one of them got through and I had to, according to Norton, delete this virus manually. What a pain in the behind!
How can I stop this? do I need to change my email address? Some of these viruses I suspect has come from yahoo and being involved in groups there and someone has gotten my email address and just pouring the viruses onto me! I am really upset! Any advice on what I should do?  |
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z12
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I'm not a yahoo member, but if your email address can be seen on a webpage there, it can also be harvested. There's some sticky's in the spam forum you may want to check out.
Changing your email address might help...for a little while. However, if you don't do anything different, you'll probabaly end up the same way again.
For public accounts, I use throw away accounts from http://www.sneakemail.com/ . Creating different accounts for different places, it's quite easy to determine which email address you used is the source of the grief.
Also, you need to protect your isp email account. My isp (earthlink) lets me create up to 5 accounts. I never give out my primary email account address and use it only to create alias accounts. I can delete the alias accounts if necessary and create a new ones.
The other thing you can do is get a different email client. I run mozilla thunderbird and I have it setup to view email as plain text. Also, it doesn't have all the security issues Outlook Express has.
HTH
Mike |
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desertrose
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| Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 8:57 am Post subject: |
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| thank you so much, Mike! what you said is very very helpful. I have both Norton and AVG anti-virus running and what one didn't find the other did! It was amazing! |
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xcrunner
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| Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 8:30 am Post subject: |
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| Just to ley you know, you shouldn't have more then 1 AV running at a time. |
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desertrose
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| Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Just to ley you know, you shouldn't have more then 1 AV running at a time. |
Oops!  You know what? I wondered about that. Thanks so much xcrunner for telling me! 
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xcrunner
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| Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Your welcome. When you have 2 AVs running they try to kill each other. |
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desertrose
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Oh thank you so much xcrunner! I have been out of state all week tending to a sick relative. Sorry I was not able to reply to your message sooner! Just got home today.
Anyway, I have gotten rid of one of the AV's already................thanks to your suggestion! Many thanks again! |
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