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Post by fozzie on Aug 16, 2008 19:43:22 GMT
If you get an Email from "Greetingscard.org" saying you have an e-card with no sender or a name you do not know DO NOT, DO NOT use the web link. Its just taken me 2 days , three Norton sweeps and a Disk Check to clean my system and get back to normal. Having been in the industry for 30+ years and at my age you'd think I'd have more bloody sense. The trouble is that the name is a legitimate organisation that sends out electronic greeting cards. But they always include the senders name in their emails to the receiver.
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Post by Amo on Aug 16, 2008 19:58:33 GMT
That's quite an old one now Fozzie, I'm surprised at you!!! The ones I'm getting hit with loads of time a day at the moment are the CNN news feeds and MSNBC Breaking News. About 4 an hour at the moment and as each address is different the blocker is taking it's time getting the hang of them  I'm affraid I work the other way around now that I delete anything I don't know who it's from instantly. If it's that important, they can phone or write to me and I ask for peoples email address to add to the safe senders first. It usually works better. Sad init. ;D |
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Post by fozzie on Aug 16, 2008 20:48:35 GMT
Amo. I could not believe how stupid I was. With half of me knowing what was going to happen, I just carried on. I'm getting that CNN rubbish but not on the frequency you are.
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Post by Amo on Aug 16, 2008 20:56:13 GMT
Well all get caught sometimes. Just don't forget to do a stand alone system back up regularly and keep it safe eh?!?!?!  |
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Post by Tig on Aug 16, 2008 22:42:11 GMT
I had that one too Foz - I don't respond unless I know the sender, so it went straight to delete (boy am I glad that none of the Grandkids use my PC  ) |
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Post by Barbara on Aug 17, 2008 8:47:27 GMT
please tell me how you delete e-mail without opening it, i have a blocked senders list but other stuff i have to open to delete, i dont know another way  |
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Post by Jasmine on Aug 17, 2008 10:09:09 GMT
If you look beside each email listed in your 'Inbox' you should see a box (they are to the left of our list), if you click on the box beside the email you want to get rid of a tick or something similar should appear. Above your emails there should be a line of commands such as 'delete', 'save' etc... click on delete and the email should disappear. I have an aol and a bt account and they both work in very similar ways so hopefully yours will too Barbara.
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Post by Amo on Aug 17, 2008 10:28:41 GMT
In outlook I just right click, delete. Or once click, to highlight, and click the cross on the toolbar or delete on the keyboard.
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Post by JennyWrenn on Aug 18, 2008 6:22:40 GMT
I almost clicked on one of these a while ago and it gave the first name of my GF but something made me STOP - thank goodness I did Has anyone had an email to say "***** is trying to make contact" and then there is a link in blue to click on - often wonder about those |
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Post by Jasmine on Aug 18, 2008 7:08:39 GMT
I've had one of those Jenny and although I remembered the name of the person who was supposed to be wanting to make contact I didn't answer the email. Rotten, I suppose if someone really did want to try and make contact. I wonder if it is something like Friends Reunited? |
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Post by Barbara on Aug 18, 2008 7:46:17 GMT
i had one keep popping up last week saying alissa had added me to her contact list, and did i give permission for outlook express to let her know i was on line, not sure about stuff like that, so i leave it alone.
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Post by nightowl on Aug 18, 2008 8:00:43 GMT
I've had a few saying someone I've never heard of wants to be my friend on Facebook. I delete them straight away. Gotta be weirdos |
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