Easy Email Ezine


Issue 12 -June 2006


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News, Articles, Tools and Tips and Advice


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This Months Contents

  • Greetings, Announcement and News
  • Featured Articles
    • Google Gmail
    • Email Security- Encryption and Signatures
  • Spam and virus News
  • Comments

Greetings, Announcements and News

 

Welcome to the June issue of The easy Email Ezine.

Incredimail current release is build 2253(19 March 2006) -This is a minor release . The  last major release was - Build 2154 Released November 14, 2005 . To download visit Incredimail download.

 

Reminders!

 Important Note: Since build 2068 August 2005 the junk email feature has become subscription based. If you are currently running a version earlier than this, and are using the junk email features, and aren't prepared to subscribe then don't upgrade!!

 If you are a yahoo email user or want a Yahoo account free or otherwise yahoo are now allowing the use of first.lastname@yahoo.com or .co.uk for Uk registered users.

Microsoft have issued an update Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP2 .

 

Last months issue was about spam and email and PC security. Microsoft have just released a new PC protection  service called Onecare. It includes:

  •  anti-virus
  •  anti-spyware
  •  firewall protection
  • automatic software updates
  •  automated backup scheduling
  •  automated hard disk maintenance and file cleanup.

It is a subscription based service and only works with Windows XP. You can try it free for 90 days.

Google Gmail

I've just managed to get a Gmail account and have been busy getting it to work with Outlook Express and IncrediMail. It did however coincide with the week that Google experienced email problems.

Despite that I was very happy with the Gmail interface and very pleased that Google allow access using a standard POP3 client like Outlook Express.

As for the ads they are only present when you read your email using the web browser Interface and not when using a standard POP3 client.

If you have a Gmail Account and want to set it up for POP3 access take a look at configuring Gmail for pop3 access which which also shows you how to setup Outlook Express (OE) and IncrediMail.

Email Security- Encryption and Signatures

Although it is relatively easy to do not many people or organizations actually use email encryption or digital signatures. The main reason is that  encrypted emails cannot normally be virus or spam checked and so you have to do without either.

However for very confidential and secure communication then you may want to consider it. To help take a look at Email Encryption and Digital Signatures which takes you through the process, technology and terminology in, I hope, an easy to understand fashion.

Don't confuse these type of signatures with signature files which are basically lines of standard text or images added to bottom of each message.

Spam and Virus News

Top Virus Threats-

Grisoft the makers of AVG anti-virus software (free version available for non business use) report the following as the top virus threats (May 2006) :

  • Worm/Generic.FX This worm spreads by internet and contains one dangerous payload action - every 3rd day of month worm overwrites files with doc, xls, mdb, mde, ppt, pps, zip, rar, pdf, psd and dmp extensions.
  • Exploit.WMF -These files exploits WMF vulnerability in Windows Operating Systems that allows malware code execution while WMF format file is opening.
  • I-Worm/Bagle.JH -It spreads thanks to massive SPAMing, messages contains attachements with zip extension and exe file inside with 9968 B size
  • I-Worm/Sober.CF-This virus comes in as an attachment to emails written in English or German language
  • I-Worm/Sober.S, .T- This virus comes in as an attachment to emails written in English or German language.
  • I-Worm/Mytob.LY, LZ (aka Zotob.A - B)
    This worm spreads exploiting security hole described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-039.
  • Win32/Gaelicum

Grisoft latest update May 29, 2006 -Added detection of new variant of I-Worm/Nyxem, I-Worm/Bagle.



More information is available on the Grisoft Web Site

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