Newsgroups: MS should WARN us FIRST not to use real email addresses here!!
- From: "Dan" <smooth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:13:24 -0500
This is not a request for assistance, but rather a warning for newer users
here, to hopefully prevent you from the same frustrations I have experienced
as a result of using this forum.
Let me say that I have found this forum EXTREMELY helpful for solving
problems. Bruce Hagen, if he is still around, did an excellent job assisting
me. He also alerted me to the fact that my real email address was available
to all on this forum, BECAUSE MICROSOFT FAILS TO WARN & INSTRUCT USERS WHEN
SETTING UP OUTLOOK EXPRESS TO USE THESE NEWSGROUPS, that you should NOT, I
repeat NOT, NOT, NOT enter your real email address!!!!!!!!!!
When I set this up, it required me to enter an email address in order to
post here. Nothing warned me that my REAL address would be easily accessible
to all here, NOR did instruct me that I could enter a false address to
thwart the spammers when entering the REQUIRED email address during
sign-up!!!!
Had Microsoft offered this very simple instruction in the beginning, I am
absolutely convinced that I would have NEVER, EVER, received ANY SPAM!!!!
This is on their network afterall, and their NEGLIGENCE to provide this
security information has caused me a great deal of headache, that now seems
will NEVER go away, making me wish I had never, ever used this newsgroup in
the first place!!!
Thank you to Bruce Hagen for recognizing and informing me about this
dangerous security breach. It would have been better if Microsoft were
RESPONSIBLE enough to have given this information in the newsgroup setup
instructions and process!!!!!
The RESULT of this NEGLIGENCE on Microsoft's part is that after just a few
postings before Bruce's alert to me, I am now bombarded on this email
account daily for the last 9 MONTHS by spammers, and ONLY on this account. I
have NEVER received spam on ANY OTHER email account I have. Many of these
spams have been VIRUSES & WORMS!!!! And luckily my Anti-Virus scanners have
been able to remove them. Although I immediately followed Bruce's
intructions to change the email address displayed, it was too late, and I
don't think there is anyway for me to remove the previous postings with the
real email address. So Microsoft has left me with breach in security which
it seems I can NEVER fix, unless I CANCEL this email account. That is really
SAD!!! and worse yet, it was TOTALLY UNNECESSARY!!!
If Microsoft were honestly SERIOUS about network security, they would alert
ALL people to this security breach before allowing them to use these
newsgroups!!
I don't even want to imagine how much worse this would be if Bruce had not
alerted me to this issue at all, but I hope this message will possibly
assist others in avoiding the headaches I have had.
And Thanks A Lot Microsoft... I thought your mission was to provide
solutions to the masses, not to cause extra problems... but what do I know
anyway.
Best of Luck to All,
Sincerely,
D.
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