Easy Email Ezine


Issue 19-February 2007


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News, Articles, Tools and Tips and Advice


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This Months Contents

  • Greetings, Announcement and News
  • Featured Articles
    • Bought a New Computer
    • Computer Privacy
  • Spam and virus News
  • Email Tools and Useful links
  • Comments

Greetings, Announcements and News

 

Welcome to the February issue of The easy Email Ezine.

 Windows Vista has finally been released. You will be aware if you are a regular reader that Outlook Express is not part of windows Vista. It is also not a part of IE7.0 which Microsoft are rolling out with automatic updates.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.

If you're not thinking of moving to Windows Vista then you will be please to know that Microsoft have extended support of Windows XP to 2014.

IncrediMail build 2570 - Released January 24, 2007  updates IncrediMail Build 2470- Released January 15  2007 - 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.

 

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!!

Bought a New Computer?

Although I included it in last months issue I have received many emails related to email being lost/left on an old computer. Before you trash the old one then you need to ensure that you have access to the old data stored on it and that includes your old emails.

If that applies to you then take a look at buying a new computer for some guidelines.

Organising Your Email Part 6 -Email Archiving

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
  • Issue 18- Address book

In this months issue we will look at email archiving and why it is different from Email backup. Continued in Archive Outlook Express Email.

Computer Privacy

Have you ever wondered what would happen if someone got access to your computer? Do you realise what information you have store on it and how that information could be used.

Computer privacy stories

To learn more see computer privacy.

 

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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

There is a new Trojan called storm making the rounds. Full details in this  article

Grisoft will cease support for the avg version 7.1 In February 2007. 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 January 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

February 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

 

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