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Since so many worms and viruses replicate by exploiting Outlook Express, it would seem wise to remove the program from my system. However, each time I try to delete or rename it, XP reincarnates a new copy! Can you help me?

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are you using an anti virus prog, i suggest norton 2003


On Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 4:40 am, Al wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?:

>
>Since so many worms and viruses replicate by exploiting Outlook Express, it would
>seem wise to remove the program from my system. However, each time I try to delete
>or rename it, XP reincarnates a new copy! Can you help me? are you using an up to date anti virus prog, i suggest norton 2003.

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You,re right!!...try using Hotmail(web-based)...much safer, and contrary to popular belief, not that bad on spam..

triplate...


On Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 4:40 am, Al wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?:

>
>Since so many worms and viruses replicate by exploiting Outlook Express, it would
>seem wise to remove the program from my system. However, each time I try to delete
>or rename it, XP reincarnates a new copy! Can you help me?

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i agree with niel you sould get norton 2003


On Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 4:40 am, Al wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?:

>
>Since so many worms and viruses replicate by exploiting Outlook Express, it would
>seem wise to remove the program from my system. However, each time I try to delete
>or rename it, XP reincarnates a new copy! Can you help me?

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You don't need to remove outlook express. Just don't use it. I have not had a virus in the few years I stopped using outlook, but even when using Web email you should, never, never, never, never, never,,,,,open a email attachment, unless you are expecting the attachment and know in advance what it is. Also it seems to be a must to have either a hardware or software firewall in place now.


On Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 4:40 am, Al wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?:

>
>Since so many worms and viruses replicate by exploiting Outlook Express, it would
>seem wise to remove the program from my system. However, each time I try to delete
>or rename it, XP reincarnates a new copy! Can you help me?

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On Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 8:55 am, sTeve wrote:
>You don't need to remove outlook express. Just don't
>use it. I have not had a virus in the few years I stopped
>using outlook, but even when using Web email you
>should, never, never, never, never, never,,,,,open a
>email attachment, unless you are expecting the attachment and know in advance what
>it is. Also it seems to be a must to have either a hardware or
>software firewall in place now. _______ Hi Steve, and thanks. I gave up on OE long ago in favor of Opera. But lately I'm getting mail that states a message I sent, supposedly out of OE, was undeliverable. Maybe some other machine with my email address stored in it has a virus or worm that is putting my address as the sender. If so, wish I could find it! But if not, I figure it could be a worm in my own machine, and a simple (?) way to defeat it would be to remove OE. For the last 3 hours I've been trying to run the procedure put out by Microsoft, but to no avail. What a bear!

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I think what is happening is what is called spoofing. The Sobig virus you may have heard about is putting in a return address that is from the address book of the PC it has infected. So one of your EMail contacts has a virus, and his PC has been sending out EMail with your address as the return..... This won't help solve that problem, but if you are concerned about your own Outllook just open accounts in outlook, and delete everything related to email accounts. Then even if your PC ever did get infected Outlook couldn't forward anything. As for the fact people are getting sent virus infected email with your name, there is not much you can do. My sister use to send me so much virus infected email, that when I visited her once I asked if I could use her PC, and I changed my address in her book to a phony address. After 3 years she hasn't figured out I that i don't recieve any email from her any more. She just calls me now when I don't respond to a real Email she might send.


On Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 11:58 am, Al wrote:
>On Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 8:55 am, sTeve wrote:
>You don't need to remove outlook express. Just don't
>use it. I have not had a virus in the few years I stopped
>using outlook, but even when using Web email you
>should, never, never, never, never, never,,,,,open a
>email attachment, unless you are expecting the attachment and know in advance what
>it is. Also it seems to be a must to have either a hardware or
>software firewall in place now.
>_______
>Hi Steve, and thanks. I gave up on OE long ago in favor of Opera. But lately I'm
>getting mail that states a message I sent, supposedly out of OE, was undeliverable.
> Maybe some other machine with my email address stored in it has a virus or worm
>that is putting my address as the sender. If so, wish I could find it! But if not,
>I figure it could be a worm in my own machine, and a simple (?) way to defeat it
>would be to remove OE.
>
>For the last 3 hours I've been trying to run the procedure put out by Microsoft,
>but to no avail. What a bear!

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On Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 2:23 pm, sTeve wrote:
>I think what is happening is what is called spoofing. The
>Sobig virus you may have heard about is putting in a return address that is from
>the address book of the PC
>it has infected. So one of your EMail contacts has a
>virus, and his PC has been sending out EMail with your
>address as the return..... This won't help solve that problem, but if you are concerned
>about your own
>Outllook just open accounts in outlook, and delete everything related to email accounts.
>Then even if your PC ever
>did get infected Outlook couldn't forward anything. As
>for the fact people are getting sent virus infected email
>with your name, there is not much you can do. My sister use to send me so much virus
>infected email,
>that when I visited her once I asked if I could use her
>PC, and I changed my address in her book to a phony
>address. After 3 years she hasn't figured out I that i don't recieve any email from
>her any more. She just
>calls me now when I don't respond to a real Email she
>might send.
> ___________ That's a great idea. Now if I can just get back to my girlfriend's machine, now that we're broken up... Maybe I'll just make her angry enough to take me out of her address book. Anyway, I've done what you suggested, but will keep an eye out for an easy method to dump OE. Since I don't use it anyway, it could only serve to improve performance. Have a great weekend, and thanks again for your thoughts.

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a good thing for would be prevention from letting this happen again next time. use Mailwasher Pro from www.firebreach.com to avoid spam and viruses from entering your mail. works well with any e-mail client such as Outlook


On Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 4:40 am, Al wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?:

>
>Since so many worms and viruses replicate by exploiting Outlook Express, it would
>seem wise to remove the program from my system. However, each time I try to delete
>or rename it, XP reincarnates a new copy! Can you help me?

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