Re: is someone using my email for spam ?

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From: Jim Carlock (anonymous_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 04/17/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 12:10:54 -0400

Hello,

Zone Alarm operates in this way. The commercial version, if you've
bought it, has an email scanner that does some things to the email
that comes in, but I have NEVER used it. I have kept it off and
don't bother with it. As long as OE is set up properly and you
take EXTREME care opening any and ALL attachments...
meaning DO NOT open an attachment, and make sure you view
everything in plain text, you'll be pretty safe.

Now back to ZoneAlarm, if a program tries to act as a server
and send information out, ZoneAlarm does a grand job at
detecting such programs. If you see a program that pops up
in one of the alerts, just find out what program it is, run a virus
scanner on it and maybe post the specific information about
that file to the newsgroup here. Someone will be able to help
you out with it. 

-- 
Jim Carlock
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/
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"Dr. Indera" <dr.inderaBUGOFF@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:eObX6yDJEHA.3576@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
hello,
i was wondering which setting i should check in zone alarm to make sure that
emails aren't being sent from my computer that i don't know about.
thanks
indera
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1d10f01c4229f$6bf79a70$a101280a@phx.gbl...
if you did not send them. the new virus's look at a whole
hard drive for address's not just outlook express. have you
ever got a "dirty" email with lots of address's ? then that
is where the virus/spam got yours from.probably on a
infected computer that you may not know. so it may not be
your computer ,unless you don't run anti virus and open
stranger attachments.
free anti virus at grisoft.com
use spybot to remove spyware from  safer-networking.org
and update and scan on easy to remove scum ,and it keeps
backups in case a spyware dependent program no longer works.
free firewall from zonelabs.com  (zonealarm)

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