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I am revieving a lot of suspicous e-mails, anything i can do

Mar 10, 2004 10:09PM PST

for about more than a week, i have been reveiving e-mails with attachments,(from people i dont know) possible 3-5 a day, my guess is they're viruses, anyway anything i can do bout it?

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For a few days I was receiving the same type and was told by Marianna to
Mar 10, 2004 10:51PM PST

delete them without opening them, and that's what I did.
They stopped after about 3 days.

Lee

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(NT) Yep, Delete Them All...
Mar 11, 2004 4:00AM PST

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Re:(NT) Yep, Delete Them All...
Mar 11, 2004 6:51PM PST

but they keep coming back, when u mean delete do u mean delete the e-mail sent then empty it from the recycle bin

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Re:Re:(NT) Yep, Delete Them All...
Mar 11, 2004 7:17PM PST

What do you meant by 'keep coming back'? Is it the same email that you receive repeatedly or a new one?

When you receive the email, Delete them, then Empty the deleted item.

You can do this automatically by going to the tools menu, option, maintenance, check the empty delete item when closing box.

Or you can create a filter for it or block such email.

Better yet, use Mailwasher (or other utility) to deal with such thing.

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Re:Re:Re:(NT) Yep, Delete Them All...
Mar 12, 2004 9:59PM PST

no new ones with new adresses keep coming, this is for my yahoo! account

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Then you have to delete them manually... or you can BLOCK those email
Mar 13, 2004 3:18AM PST

The email you received are send by a virus.

So, Do Not!!, I repeat Do Not!! report as SPAM.. yet, because you don't want to report innocent people email addresses.

Unless you know for sure they are spammer... then you might report it as spam.

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Re:Then you have to delete them manually... or you can BLOCK those email
Mar 13, 2004 7:27PM PST

seems they have gone , thanks for the help

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Re:I am revieving a lot of suspicous e-mails, anything i can do
Mar 14, 2004 2:44PM PST

I am getting alot of spam and I suspect it's because I've got Kazaa Gold. Download Mailwasher as it will allow you to review your emails before actually downloading them. You can "blacklist" the emails you don't want and will delete them each time anything from that email address comes through. it won't solve the problem totally but will help alot. Also make sure you have an antivirus program - I use Norton.

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Gurupete, Another Option Would Be To Uninstall KaZaa..
Mar 15, 2004 5:53AM PST

If you're not familiar with the high virus/spam/legal risks with KaZaa, you might want to read the link below which we created in the McAfee forums.

KaZaa & P2P networks - High Virus/Legal Risks
http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=4911

It's your choice on what you have running on your computer, but the article and all it's links are worth the read. Hopefully you are aware that most of the newer viruses are designed to attack KaZaa users and are therefore those users are perpetuating the viruses onward.

Hope this helps.

Grif