OT: Outlook express and spam crap!

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Hi there, a few questions really which i hope someone can help with.

Is there an option in outlook express to only read in text emails, and not
html? cant seem to find the option to change this.

Also the other problem im having with is ad's etc and spam loaded onto my
computer. I dont ask for any of this and its really annoying now. Im using a
program called Ad-Aware, which is quite good, but when i do a system scan,
it finds all the crap in registry etc; i.e 16 items of unwanted stuff... I
remove this, then scan again and say 12 appear again, its like you delete
them, and they self reproduce again.. its really annoying!!!!!

Hope someone has some ideas :)

Cheers
 
={ Advocated }= said:
Hi there, a few questions really which i hope someone can help with.

Is there an option in outlook express to only read in text emails,
and not html? cant seem to find the option to change this.

Also the other problem im having with is ad's etc and spam loaded
onto my computer. I dont ask for any of this and its really annoying
now. Im using a program called Ad-Aware, which is quite good, but
when i do a system scan, it finds all the crap in registry etc; i.e
16 items of unwanted stuff... I remove this, then scan again and say
12 appear again, its like you delete them, and they self reproduce
again.. its really annoying!!!!!

Hope someone has some ideas :)

Cheers
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In Outlook Express 6 Tools>>Options>>Read tab>>Check "Read all messages in
plaintext" Press Apply then OK

Those would be cookies which Adware keeps finding. In Internet Explorer
Tools>>Internet Options>> General tab>>Choose Delete Cookies and Delete
files. Place a checkmark in the Delete all Offline content box. Press OK
 
={ Advocated }= said:
Hi there, a few questions really which i hope someone can help with.

Is there an option in outlook express to only read in text emails,
and not html? cant seem to find the option to change this.
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Has been answered already
Also the other problem im having with is ad's etc and spam loaded
onto my computer. I dont ask for any of this and its really annoying
now. Im using a program called Ad-Aware, which is quite good, but
when i do a system scan, it finds all the crap in registry etc; i.e
16 items of unwanted stuff... I remove this, then scan again and say
12 appear again, its like you delete them, and they self reproduce
again.. its really annoying!!!!!

Hope someone has some ideas :)

Cheers
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I use the HOSTS file to block a lot of these and Cookie Cop V2.2 to stop
cookies. There are other cookie blockers out there.
A good HOSTS file and links to the HOSTS file description can be found here:
http://asp.flaaten.dk/proxo/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1363

The forum is also good to read for other blocking hints:
 
Stacey said:
THANKS!!!! I've been wanting to block adds in linux but never run
across how to do it easily. In case someone using linux is curious,
just add the contents of the /etc/hosts file on your system to the
downloaded "windows" one (maybe save a copy of the original as hosts$
just in case) and enjoy very few banner ads. You can add any you get
at favorite sites to the file in the same format and either restart
networking (switching run levels might work too) or reboot.
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YW. I think that this is the first time I made the penguin happy. :)
 
YK said:
YW. I think that this is the first time I made the penguin happy.
:)
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The problem I see with using the hosts file is that you have to enter a
specific fully qualified URL on which to assign 127.0.0.1. That is, you
cannot define wildcarded URL strings on which to block, like
"*.doubleclick.*", "*.atdmt.com", "*.fastclick.*", and "*.x10.com".
That's why these hosts lists get so long because they have lots of URLs
for the same domain. One spamvertiser had 9 TLDs (.com, .net, .org,
..info, .us, and so on). I didn't bother to figure out or discover how
many subdomains they use under each TLD, so the list of all fully
qualified URLs just from one spamvertiser could be numerous. Guess I'll
stick with a proxy that will let me specify wildcarded URL strings or
partial URL strings to let me strip out the outbound traffic (so the
HTML coded page will not be able to complete the link back to whatever
would be the image or object).
 
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