Virus- pain!

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Vivian

I have taken the advice of a previous post and given my
address book a new contact of (e-mail address removed). So far
nothing seems to have infected my adress book. Over 50%
of all my e-mail has some type of virus that makes Norton
go crazy, me too. Any suggestions how to stop? Filtering
dumps them to another folder which I delete without
opening. How can I stop these troublesome messages before
this point?
 
You can delete the contact; it won't do anything to protect you from
virusses.

You can try to go to your webbased mailclient. If you have a good ISP it
will allow you to set some mail rules here. Configure the rule to delete the
message or to move it to a different folder. This way you'll prevent Outlook
from downloading the message.

Hope this helps!
 
Vivian said:
I have taken the advice of a previous post and given my
address book a new contact of (e-mail address removed). So far
nothing seems to have infected my adress book. Over 50%
of all my e-mail has some type of virus that makes Norton
go crazy, me too. Any suggestions how to stop? Filtering
dumps them to another folder which I delete without
opening. How can I stop these troublesome messages before
this point?
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Putting in an addressbook entry such as (e-mail address removed) is a total waste of time. Also, I gave up
on Norton yonks ago - VERY heavy on the system, often conflicted disasterously with other programs
and slows down the system .... plus isn't free <lol>.

Get an anti-virus package, a firewall package and a mail filtering package.

You can do this for free using AVG from Grisoft, ZoneAlarm and Mailwasher.

(Personally I use the "Pro" version of ZoneAlarm, and the free versions of the others)

There are doubtless other freeware packages that do the same.

Mailwasher checks mails against known spamming IP addresses (real time!), and also lets you specify
your own filters. You can delete (and/or "bounce") unwanted messages without having to receive them
in full into outlook first.
 
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