Unwanted changes in email account

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George W

My email server keeps getting changed from pop.earthlink.net to
127.0.0.1 in both of my email clients, Outlook Express and Mozilla.
Also my email account username occasionally gets changed as well. I
read somewhere that there is a virus that's known for doing this.

I'm running XP Pro.

Will appreciate any info.

George
 
My email server keeps getting changed from pop.earthlink.net to
127.0.0.1 in both of my email clients, Outlook Express and Mozilla.
Also my email account username occasionally gets changed as well. I
read somewhere that there is a virus that's known for doing this.

I'm running XP Pro.

Will appreciate any info.

George
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I have seen Norton ANtivirus do this, is that what you are running?
 
Scotty said:
I have seen Norton ANtivirus do this, is that what you are running?
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No, but close. I'm running the latest McAfee AV, Firewall, Anti-Spam and
Privacy. Could be a setup problem with McAfee, I guess .......

George
 
George said:
No, but close. I'm running the latest McAfee AV, Firewall, Anti-Spam
and Privacy. Could be a setup problem with McAfee, I guess .......

George
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GW:

Someone asked a similar question recently and I answered it recently

Some client-side spam filters (including mine - SpamPal -
http://www.spampal.org/usermanual/clients/oe/oe.html) require that your
email client's incoming mail POP3 be configured to "local host" or
127.0.0.1. I suspect that your McAfee spam filter is doing this. It is
probably not a setup problem with McAfee, but required for it to work.
Check the McAfee help for the spam filter to see what it says.

Good luck,

Steve
 
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