Easy Email Ezine


Issue 16-October 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 3
  • Spam and virus News
  • Email Tools and Useful links
  • Comments

Greetings, Announcements and News

 

Welcome to the October issue of The easy Email Ezine.

IncrediMail Build 2590 - Released October 25 2006 updates IncrediMail Build 2528 - Released October 18 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.

 


Microsoft have also released IE7.0. It is available for download here. There is no update for Outlook Express in this download as the browser and email have no been separated.

The next release of Outlook Express is now called windows live mail desktop and is still in beta.

 

Organising Your Email for Outlook Express Users

In last months issue we looked at were your email is located and organising the email in your mailbox.

This month we will look at how to organise messages in a folder so that they are displayed in a way that is convenient to us.

Many inboxes contain a large amount of messages to enable you to easily find and manage your messages you can use:

Views- which let you see only the messages that meet certain criteria- Continued in Creating Custom Views In Outlook Express

and

Column sorting which allows you to order the messages in a folder according to certain criteria like date received, sender name etc. Continued in Sorting Messages in a Folder
 

Warning  ... When using either or both you should be careful that you don't accidentally miss email messages by enabling a view or having a sort order that doesn't show your most recent messages.

I once missed a week of emails because I'd change the folder sort order so that oldest messages were being displayed at the top and kept wondering why I wasn't getting any new mail.

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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 October 2006) :

  • I-Worm/Stration
    Worm spreads by e-mail as an attachment, or as a hyperlink in ICQ message. On the infected computer virus harvests e-mail addresses or ICQ contacts to which it sends its copies
     
  • 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 27, 2006- Added detection of new variant of I-Worm/Stration, new variant of trojan Downloader.Zlob.


More information is available on the Grisoft Web Site

 

Email Tools and Useful links

Comments

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