Re: "Invisible" messages -- malicious spam, or virus?
From: Michael Jennings (harvest_at_way.invalid)
Date: 03/03/04
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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 23:38:45 -0500
You could probably cure the behavior by eradicating the spam folder.
Shut down Outlook Express. Navigate to the message store. Right click
Spam.dbx and select delete while holding down the shift key. Say ok.
Then create a new Spam folder when you open Outlook Express.
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/store.htm
has instructions on locating Outlook Express's message store.
"Matt O'Toole" <matt@deltanet.com> wrote in message
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> I'm having a weird problem with Outlook Express. One of my folders (the
spam
> folder*) is showing some unread messages, even though all the messages in
this
> folder have been deleted. I'm not about to just "mark all messages read,"
> because I'm afraid there's something malicious that's not showing up, such
as a
> virus. Is this possible? Could a message hide itself like that? Any
ideas?
>
> Matt O.
>
> *I use PopFile to filter my email, and it works beautifully.
>
>
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