Easy Email Ezine

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.

It's fast approaching Christmas and the long holidays. It is at this time of year that I get questions regarding automated email replies. For more information take a look at the out of office replies article.

Organising Your Email for Outlook Express Users

Just a quick reminder Of what we have covered in previous issues:

• Issue 14- Creating Identities to organise email at the user level
• Issue 15-Using Folders to arrange email in the mailbox
• Issue 16- Using folder views to Organise the folder

In this months issue we will look at finding emails. Outlook express has a very powerful find facility that allows you to locate emails. Just click find on the toolbar.

Enter in the search criteria and click the find now button.

The search results appear and you can now select the messages using the CRTL and/or shift keys and move them, copy them, delete them or even forward them.

I use this often for finding a bunch of related messages and moving them into their own folders.

Sending Photos using Email

Today most of us have digital cameras and want to share our pictures with friends and family. The easiest way is to send them using email. The problem with doing this is that photos can be large and simply attaching them to emails may cause them to become too large and the message just gets rejected.

It is a good idea to keep all messages under 5MB to ensure that they pass over the net. Remember even though our ISP may allow for larger messages others on route may not.

So if you are going to send them as email attachments then you should:

• Compress them with a utility like WinZip
• Ensure that the message size remains under 5MB. You may need to send several messages to accomplish this

However if you have a Yahoo account then you can use PhotoMail. This is  new yahoo mail feature that allows easy sharing of photos on the Internet.

You can insert Pictures directly into an email the recipient sees a small thumbnail image( not the real image) and clicking on the thumbnail downloads the real image.

The image is not actually sent via the mail system ( only a link to the image) which means that it would not be blocked due to size.

Below is a screen shot of what the recipient sees. The two images have clickable links which when clicked open the image in a web browser on the Yahoo site. You can then save the image to your PC or to Yahoo Photos.

You should also see an attachment (called DSC..). This is the standard way of sending pictures using email but notice the size (over 1Mbytes).

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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 November 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

November 27, 2006- Added detection of new variant of I-Worm/Stration.



More information is available on the Grisoft Web Site

Email Tools and Useful links

• 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.

•  Roboform is a website password manager that not only remembers your passwords it can generate them as well.

• Securing your computer and Internet and computer Privacy.-Basic guide to protecting your privacy.
• Microsoft Outlook Express support
• Incredimail Support

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