Insanity ( Caused by OE Glitch?)
From: ned (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/06/04
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Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 15:57:15 -0800
you are not having any extra modem action when you are not
surfing the net ,are you?
>-----Original Message-----
>(well given the problem I'm likley to move to a different
news client
>anyway-
>Anyone here know of any good news clients with a bullet
proofable
>filter system
>againt the junk mailers?)
>
>Apart from beiong tiresome the 'glitch' has perhaps cost
me a job
>interview,
>as well as small amount in terms of replacing a hard disk.
>
>
>About 2 weeks ago I decided to check fro what updates were
available
>for OE6 SP1 running on Windows98SE. There was at leats one
cumlative
>security update recomended.
>
>(I was looking as I had been getting a number of
issues,(such as
>Phantom Windows). Given that I download shareware and freewrae
>software I can't say for certain that it was the update
that did it
>but at present there is a high probability IMO that it
might be
>related.)
>
>Subsquent to installing this patch the message rules and
Blocked
>senders list in OE6 stopped working.
>
>Remove Update - Same Fault
>Revert to OE5.0 - Same Fault
>
>Clean out Windows - Re-Install Same Fault.
>
>Install brand new drive,Physically disconnect exisitng drive,
>Flash Bios in case it's one of the 'clever' worms, FDISK,
FORMAT,
>Re-Install from Windows CD - Same Fault!
>
>At this point I am starting to wonder if I am actually
going crazy
>because as far as I knew before applying the security
update for OR6,
>the message rules worked flawlessly.
>
>Additonaly in the current instalation of OE5
>- Delete key in Newsgroups to remove messages non-functional
>- Block Senders adds names/address to list but doesn't
remove messages
>from grup
>- Ability to save to the drafts folder appears disabled.
>
>My next step would presuambly be to find some kind of
debugging
>tool,API Analyser to find out what the heck OE thinks it's
doing (or
>isn't) when it applies (or in this case dosen't) apply
message rules
>for newsgroups. However, I can't do this because of the
EULA meaning
>I'll
>probably have to pay out a small fortune not fixing the
fault :-(
>
>(Please note that I have tried to correct the fualt using
other
>identities,
>deleting registry keys and it still seems to occur
regardless of these
>actions,
> identity or newsgroup concerned.)
>
>At this point I am seriously considering whether I should seek
>'professional medical' assistance, as the fault seems to
have eluded
>all normal attempts to fix it :-(
>.
>
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