There are emails that are not getting through to my computer. I suspect it is McAfee Total Protection's Anti-Spam. It is set to its lowest level. There is an Anti-Spam folder, but they don't go there either. My ISP (Roadrunner) is set to send all emails to me, so it is not them. We are very careful computer users and do not open attachments. How dangerous would it be to disable the Anti-Spam?
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I was just curious and scanned my computer for empty registries,I have never done it, it showed five hundred empty registries, then I installed another program it showed another number, now I dont know if they are harmful or not and what program to use if there is a need to doit. l also run defragmentation but it is very slow.
View 9 Replies View RelatedThe problem is Gmail? I am getting so much Spam, IN my Spam folder? everyday, around 50 or more. I have created filters, to delete the individual spam, but it keeps on coming? Is there a spam filter, or a free spam software, that I can use with Gmail?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am running Windows Vista Ultimate with Windows Defender Disabled and Norton Internet Security 2009 installed. Someone who is completely trusted sent me an email with an attachment. The attachment was defined as a ZIPP file. I copied the file to my desktop and renamed it to a ZIP file to access the enclosed files. Within the ZIP are four OCX files which I need to copy to my System32 directory.
When I attempt to copy the files to any location in my computer, I get "Windows has found this file is potentially harmful. To help protect your computer, Windows has blocked access to this file." When I click on the "How does this help protect my computer." link it takes me to Windows Mail help. This has nothing to do with Windows Mail. Where can I adjust the Security settings in Windows to fix this problem
specs first: Acer Aspire 5315 (-2326) with Intel Celeron CPU processor and Vista Home Basic (32 bit).
Why would my desktop items suddenly move around whenever I reboot? I'm not talking about program/file icons but rather the clock and calender on the right hand side of my desktop. It's a section I never touch--just a clock, calender, and image of the month (photo for calender). Now, suddenly, when I start up the computer, these things appear on top of one another or rearranged. It's odd, but irritating to me now. I can find no mention of this anywhere online. Some people have issues with rearranged icons, etc., such as in vertical vs. horizontal rows, etc. etc. But not random movements of utilities, etc. Anyway. Any suggestion would help.
I removed an old copy of Word (XP Professional) in preparation for theinstallation of Office Home. Now, whenever I do almost anything,the windows installer keeps popping up, looking for the XP Pro disk (andPRO.MSI in particular.)
I can no longer locate that old XP disk, and now I cannot install the newversion! I tried removing some references to Office 10 in the registry,but that didn't help. How can I remove the constant "nagging" and install the new software?
Every second or so my disk access light on the pc flashes - Windows XP Premium SP1. I have tried every tool I can think of to try and find out why but I am at a loss. This is my fourth install and on the first 2 this didnt happen. I have switched off everything I can think of that may be causing this (prefetch, defender, indexing etc) bit it still goes on. Is there any way I can track down what is happening? Vista was installed 7 days ago.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am running Vista Bus. I have 1 program in my start-up group which seems to get challenged every day or so.Is there a way to stop that annoying "Allow/Disallow" Challenge? Also I have 1 website that when Protected mode is on causes IE7 to go totally nuts. It tries opening the page over and over and over again. Until I force all the
pages to close. It seems to only be that 1 page, aol.com. I am also working w/Symantec on this b/c Norton360 likes turning it back on.
Have you recently installed a system utility or a productivity application such as Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Dreamweaver and have been bombarded with registration messages that pop-up every time your start the application? Even when you check the box and tell the application never to remind you ever again?
This happens to me all the time and is very annoying. The culprit of this problem is... you guessed it, UAC!
Your application keeps asking you to register because the registry key that it checks to see if you should still be harassed into registration is never getting set thanks to UAC. When I check the box or hit the Never remind me again button the registry write gets virtualized because the app tried to write to a part of the registry a standard user does not have access to. This is a feature of UAC and it does a great job of redirecting the registry write so the application does not crash out. However, since the application is not aware of this virtualized write location it keeps checking the registry value of the key in the normal location. Since the application has read only access to that location the key will keep getting virtualized every time you check the box and is why the registration boxes keep popping up.
How do you get out of this mess? Real simple, just run the application as an Administrator ....
I use 2 mail addresses and lately from time to time (not everytime) WM asks for password validation. It takes time and is annoying. after validtaion it works OK until next time. (give me back the old outlook express which ran fast and trouble free)
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have Windows Vista Ultimate. Every time I turn on my computer, little pop up windows tell me to set a password as a way to activate Parental Controls. HOWEVER, I do not need Parental Controls - I am the only user of the computer and I have not activated the Guest Account or created any other user account. And I do not want to give a password to myself? How can I stop these annoying pop up windows from popping up EVERY time I turn on my computer?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm on Vista Ultimate, how can I disable the annoying warning alerts that pop up from system tray?
for example:
-- "this device can perform faster" (doesn't even tell you what device..)
-- Java update available.
-- user account warning
-- and all other annoying warnings
I want to disable all these warning alerts,
How can you turn off the annoying User Account Control feature without Vista telling that you have turned it off, and having an icon in the system tray telling you that it is turned off?
View 9 Replies View RelatedRecently I've been getting swamped with spam. Windows Mail
segregates most but not all of the approximately 50 to 100 a day.
Most have Pfizer in the From field but most are different and seem
top be medical advertisements in general.
I feel as though I'm being attacked!
Is there anything I can do about this? Would it do any good to
complain to my ip?
I use Outlook Express to send and receive email. How do I get rid of a spammer who keep sending me junk email.? I have asked this person to stop...but he continues to keep sending my junk mail that I do not want. I have put him on on Blocker senders list but that does not help I send a email to my ISP about the problem and MSN abuse support (that is the email he uses)!
View 9 Replies View Relatedmy mail deletes spam mail automaticly, but i noticed it delets mail from my friends that it shouldn't be deleting and leaves mail that it should can some one help me shut this off or figure out where my spam folder is.
View 4 Replies View RelatedSo there I was, infront of my computer about to install some software on my computer that I was missing, I opened the folder where the install file was and dubble clicked it like every other human being would do, the folder stops answering and I am wondering if that's just gonna take a while to load, after half an hour of loading the not-answering folder window I pushed ctrl-alt-delete, went to my joblist and disabled the folder that way.
Shortly after my folder finally is closed I feel some heavy delay on the computer so I checked my prossesses that my computer was running and it was not normal.
Normal uptime running prossesses: ~80
At that very moment after closeing folder: ~106...................
Any Spam Filters that are compatible with Windows Mail?
View 5 Replies View RelatedA number of incoming messages go into spam even though the senders address and domain are in my address book.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI`m having a Anti-Spam Error. I don`t know how to enable it again, i already tried everything in the Options, Advanced Options, etc. (Btw, I have AVG Internet Security 8.0). How do i enable this bar on my desktop? I have an strange icon on my taskbar (i think thats the name). When i leave the pointer on the Icon, no names or something comes. When i try to install Language Packs ( Brazillian ) the setup never ends. It stays on installing Language Pack. ( for like 2 hours).
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View 7 Replies View RelatedVista Home Prem/SP1 fully updated/WM. Emails from my bro-in-law have suddenly (since 16/06/08) been marked **SPAM** in the subject line. Since his domain is "freeserve.co.uk" perhaps this is triggering the subject renaming. Unlikely since other emaiIs from the same domain get through unblemished. Is this action likely to be through WM? Vista? or my email server? Bro-in-law is in my safe senders list. Any ideas how to stop this? A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI lost my info column on the left side of my screen. I cant get to my sent, trash, spam, and etc. How can I restore that column or drop down box
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhen I click on a new message and try to delet it move it to folder or spam I get a message that says an unknown error has occurred. MY email is also not moving things automatically to spam as I hhad it set up.
View 4 Replies View Related1- I put my charter.net email into Vista mail works great but now I can only get my email by going through vista mail. If I go to charter.net It says NO MESSAGES, but there are because I can get them when I go into vista mail.
Also I got an email from a trusted sender and Vista mail pt it throug to spam and said it could have been phishing, I am 100% it was not. I right clicked on the email and put it in trusted sender. Why didVista mail do that Finally I hate how when I go into vista ,mail even if I right click on an email It will open it (so say I right click on a spam email to delete it, vista mail will open it?
i'm having a problem where every approx third time i use outlook 2007 i get the following error after i quit it:
microsoft visual c++ runtime library error
Runtime Error!
Program C:prog...
This application has requested the runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. please contact the the applications support team for more information.
event viewer shows that this is the anti spam toolbar as faulting application. i also get a uac requesting permision for same toolbar every time i quit. i have contacted trend micro support who have told me that this is a microsoft problem and i should contact them - i'm not convinced about this hence this post. when i disable uac neither problem occurs. i have vista hp 32 bit and have also another pc with windows 7 ultimate with exact same problem
I'm running Vista and I have Windows Mail. Windows Mail is filtering out Spam that has nothing in the Subject Line (blank). But - it puts it in my Junk Mail folder and when I'm away for a week or so, this spam builds up (in the 100's). I need to find a way to create a Rule that 'Deletes' it from the Server, so that it never reaches my email.......
View 6 Replies View RelatedOver the last couple of weeks I have been inundated with loads of French spam in my Inbox. This is probably because my BB provider (Orange) is owned by a French company (I live in the UK). But what's really annoying is the sheer amount that I am receiving. I have been trying to set up message rules to keep it out of my inbox (looking for certain words or phrases in French etc) but I'm starting to lose the battle against. I don't want to change my ISP as (for now) my speeds are pretty good and I don't pay a lot per month for it any way.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've been receiving hundreds of spam messages per day. Many of these take advantage of a diabolical trick: they spoof my own email address as the sender. Thus, if i try to block them, i block all messages that are returned to me from certain email lists that i participate on. How do i deal with spam that spoofs?
View 9 Replies View RelatedSome valid, safe mail is going to my spam folder. Often it's plain text messages that are coming from people in my contacts. The message is higlighted in "Red" as possibly unsafe and placed in my Spam Folder.
View 4 Replies View RelatedFrom time to time I receive emails which have been marked as SPAM (in the subject line) I have a rule set up to delete such messages. Whilst that works well there is on occasion a message which actually isn't SPAM after all. I can copy the email to the desktop and edit it with notepad to remove the word SPAM from the subject line and then save and drag it back into Windows mail but the situation I have is that I have a (mail) folder which has a large number of needed emails incorrectly marked. Does anyone know of a utility that can be used to rename the subject line (specifically to remove the word SPAM) from all messages in a given folder?
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