Easy Email Ezine


Issue 15-September 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
    • Organising Your Email- Part 2
  • Spam and virus News
  • Email Tools and Useful links
  • Comments

Greetings, Announcements and News

 

Welcome to the September issue of The easy Email Ezine.

IncrediMail Build 2528 - Released September 18 2006 updates build 2479  14  August 2006 - This is a minor release . The last major release was Build 2385 - Released June 7, 2006 . To download visit Incredimail download but see reminder below first.

Its also almost Halloween and Incredimail are offering a free Halloween skin and of course lots of Halloween related stationary/letters.

 

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.

 


 

Organising Your Email for Outlook Express Users

In last months issue we looked at accessing mailboxes and Identities. This month we will look at were your email is located and organising the email in your mailbox.

Many email newbies and even seasoned email users are not sure where their email is actually stored. They are also not really sure of the difference between a mailbox and an inbox. If your not sure then you should read Mailboxes and Mailbox Locations

Outlook Express creates some default folders that you can use They are inbox, outbox, sent items, deleted items. In addition you can create your own folders that you can use to store your emails in based on the way you work/personal preferences. Continued in Outlook Express Folders.

If you are unsure of how to configure message rules see Outlook Express Message Rules.

 

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Remember

You should ensure that the details are kept confidential as they are very important (see - If I knew your email account details.

It is also a very good idea to change your account password on a regular basis (every 60 days is sufficient). If you do this you either have to keep a note of the change each time or develop a system for your passwords. It is also important that you do not use the same password anywhere else.

If you're tired of typing in passwords to enter websites then why not automate it! Roboform is a website password manager that not only remembers your passwords it can generate them as well.

 

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 (End September 2006) :

  • BackDoor.Generic3.GBB and .GBC-Trojan horses BackDoor.Generic3.GBB and BackDoor.Generic3.GBC are almost similar. Both of them exploiting MS Windows Server Service vulnerability described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-040 for it`s spreading.
  • 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

October 1, 2006 -Added detection of new variant of Worm/Kelvir, new variant of trojan Downloader.Tibs.




More information is available on the Grisoft Web Site

 

Email Tools and Useful links

Comments

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