Easy Email Ezine
This Months Contents
Greetings, Announcements and News
Welcome to the January issue of The easy Email Ezine. I would like to wish you all a Happy and prosperous New Year, and thank you for your support and feedback during 2006. This year will start in earnest at the end of January with the release of Windows Vista. You will be aware if you are a regular reader that Outlook Express will not be part of windows Vista. Instead Windows Vista will include Windows Mail which effectively replaces Outlook Express. For those who prefer to stay with Windows XP then Microsoft are offering Windows Live Mail Desktop. Windows Live Mail desktop is part of Microsoft's Live Program which essentially is an effort to support traditional Desktop Applications on Web Servers which paves the way for software as a service. Windows Live Mail will also run on Windows Vista and is described as an enhancement for Windows Mail as well as a replacement for Outlook Express. You may also be aware that Microsoft are now rolling out IE7.0 as part of automatic updates. You will be given an option of whether or not to install it. See the MSDN blog. I am seeing quite a lot of newsgroups reporting problems with IE 7.0 and Outlook Express and so I personally won't be installing IE 7.0 until I have done more research. IncrediMail build 2670 - Released December 10, 2006 Build 2598 - Released November 8 2006 updates IncrediMail Build 2598 - Released November 8 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.
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Organising Your Email Part 5 -Using Outlook Express Address Book Folders
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
- Issue 17- finding emails
In this months issue we will look at the Outlook Express address Book and organising contacts. The main method of organising is to split the address book into folders.. continued
Buying a New Computer
Are you thinking of buying a new computer? In fact I receive many emails with questions like
I've bought a new computer and I've lost my old emails?
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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. |
Spam and Virus News
Grisoft will cease support for the avg version 7.1. You should upgrade to the new version 7.5 as soon as possible.
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 December 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
January 1, 2007- Added detection of new variant of I-Worm/Stration, I-Worm/Bagle, Worm/Delf.
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.
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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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