Easy Email Ezine


Issue 13 -July 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
    • Email Security- Your Email Account
    • Email Security-Computer Privacy
  • Spam and virus News
  • Comments

Greetings, Announcements and News

 

Welcome to the July issue of The easy Email Ezine.

IncrediMail Build 2448 - Released July 18, 2006 updates build 2421  2 July 2006 -This is a minor release . The last major release was Build 2385 - Released June 7, 2006 . 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 .

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.

 

 

Email has gone truly mobile. Now you can get email while driving in your car with the world's First Hands-and-Eyes Free Email Solution for In-Vehicle Use.

In case you missed the article on the site you can easily Send Email to a Mobile Phone so as to get your emails wherever you are.

A little while I go I mentioned that Outlook Express would become Windows Mail with the launch of Windows Vista. What I wasn't aware of is that that will also be replaced by Windows Live Mail Desktop which is currently in Beta.

Email Security and Privacy

What could I do if I new your email account details? You may not realise is that your Email account is your link to many online services. If I knew your email account details: continued here.

Outlook Express and Incredimail are windows applications running on your PC. If your PC is not secure neither will your email. Here you can find out more about securing your computer and Internet and computer Privacy.

Spam and Virus News

According to a recent article on Techweb 80 percent of all the e-mail traffic on the Internet during the first three months of 2006. The good news is that most of it gets filtered by spam filters and so never reaches the inbox.

So What do you do to get your email message through. Well before you send it you need to have it checked by a spam filter. This free spam check report will tell you if you email message will get through the spam filters. Just paste you intended message into the box and submit.

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 (End JUly 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

July 25, 2006- Detection of new variant of Worm/Agobot, Worm/Spybot, new variant of trojan IRC/BackDoor.SdBot added.



More information is available on the Grisoft Web Site

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