10 ways to 'deal' with spam

10 ways to 'deal' with spam Picture 1 Do you find email software to work effectively? Do these programs block spam effectively? Do your important emails get caught in the spam mail? There are hundreds of megabytes of spam stored and hidden somewhere in your PC?

Spam and other messages can fill your inbox and make your important messages lost, hard to find.You can create rules in Outlook Express 6 to filter messages without the sender's address in the Bulk folder.

To set up rules, go to Tools-> Message Rules -> Mail . Next select New Rule and create a new rule. If you want to choose the label "Where the To line contains people" . In the box below, select the blue underlined words " contains people ". If you want to add email addresses and select Add . Now, click Options and select "Message does not contain the people below" select Ok twice. Now, tick "Move it to the specified folder" and select the underlined blue " specified " text. Finally, create a new folder called " Bulk ", highlight it and click OK twice.

If you are using Netscape, go to Tools-> Message Filters -> New , select "Match all of the following" , use the Subject drop-down menu and select " To ".Please add your mail addresses, then in the bottom box of the window, select Red.That way all email sent directly to you will be marked in red, very difficult to miss.

Last year, Microsoft released an update that fixes security vulnerabilities for Outlook Express 5 and 6. Users who have installed the update will see the attachments to e-mail automatically be blocked.This change has the effect of preventing attachments that cannot be hidden from viruses and executed in your inbox.This is a good feature for those who are just beginning to use the Net, but for experienced users this can be troublesome and annoying.To turn off this feature, follow the steps below but remember to scan the attachment for viruses before opening them.

In Outlook Express, select Tools -> Options -> select the Security tab . Next, uncheck "Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could be a virus."

3. Delete the mysterious spam

Both Outlook and Netscape shared the habit of storing deleted e-mails in Outlook's Deleted and Trash folders. Microsoft Outlook products store up to 2 GB of old messages even though they have been deleted from the Deleted folder. In Netscape, there are also 300 MB of spam after it has been deleted from the Trash folder.In fact, they are hard to recover, so why do you have to waste hard disk space just to store spam?

Deleting messages in Netscape's Trash folder is also quite complicated. Go to Start -> Search -> Files and Folders , and select "All Files and Folders" . Remember to select " Search hidden files and folders" by expanding the "More advanced options" section of the Options menu. Find keywords " trash ". The search results will return some folders containing the file name " trash ".The file to delete will be the largest, it is almost identical to: "C: Documents and SettingsTENCUABANApplicationDataMozillaProfilesdefault5z3f9dp.sltMailpop. HOPTHUCUABAN.com".

In older versions of Windows this path will be: "C: Program FilesNetscapeUsersTENCUABANMail".

Now, you can delete these files, Netscape will automatically re-create this folder name.

In Outlook, hidden messages are difficult to delete.First, go to Tools and select the Deleted Items folder . To prevent Outlook from storing these deleted messages in the future, select Tools -> Options -> select Other tab, and select the "Empty The Deleted Items Folder Upon Exiting."

Spammers often use chat rooms to hunt down and release spam.To limit spam by this way, create a nick name that is only for "chat".

If you are on vacation and you have an Hotmail email account, you may receive a lot of spam when you return.In order for you to make this volume of spam too big, you can do a trick to trick spam-distributing companies into thinking your email address is temporarily closed, you can reactivate this mail account during the 90's. day.After this time, your mail account will be permanently lost, you will not be able to receive mail, send mail and all previous archived and address books will be deleted.

Spam distribution companies will assume your mail address has "died" and will not send mail anymore.And of course, your friends also think that your email address is no longer available.So try to activate your account again within 90 days.

Once you are tricked into reading spam, it is more than enough.But, if the Outlook or Outllook Express software will not immediately mark the messages as read when you have read them.Therefore, you are very likely to read this spam again.Below is a step to mark the read messages (letters with no bold text) in your inbox when you click on the message.

First, go to Tools -> Options -> select Other tab. Click on the Preview frame of Outlook Express (in Outlook 2003 it is called a reading frame) and select the box "Mark messages as read in preview window."Select 0 for the number of times you want the message to be marked as read.

In Outlook Express, select Tools -> Options select the Read tab, to the right of the "Mark messages read after displaying for" line , select the number of times as "0" .

Windows notification feature will notify you when you receive a new message.If you use Windows XP Home and XP Pro with multi-user mode, each time you log on to Windows, Windows will notify you of the number of unread messages.

To prevent these annoying messages, you just need to find out which programs generated them.XP usually retrieves new mail information from the Outlook Express program and Messenger messaging program that connects to MSN and Hotmail.

To remove Messenger remind you when you have new mail, go to Messenger -> Tools and select Options . Next, select the Preferences tab and uncheck "Run this program when Windows starts."

In Outlook Express, go to Tools -> Options -> select the General tab. Uncheck "Automatically log on to Windows Messenger" and "Send and receive messages at startup."

8. Turn off new mail information, part 2

You can remove new mail notifications in the system tray from Hotmail, MSN, and Outlook.

To prevent Messenger from notifying you when new mail arrives every day.Open Messenger , select the Tools menu, and select Options . Next, select the Preferences tab and uncheck "Display alerts when e-mail arrives."

In Outlook Express, select Tools -> Options and select the General tab. Next, go to the "Check for new messages" box and select the time when Outlook checks for new messages is the largest: 480 minutes. In this way, you need to manually press Send / Receive in Outlook to check for new mail.

In Outlook 2003, select Tools -> Options menu , and select E-mail Options . Now, just click Advanced E-mail Options , and select the option "When new items arrive in my In-box" .

If you like announcements when new mail is available but you find it annoying to hear the notification sound, you just need to change or turn off this function from the programs that generate them.Go to Start -> Settings -> Control Panel and select Sounds and Audio Devices . Here, you can change the sound of Windows. Simply select the Sounds tab and scroll to the " Program Event " event and find the program or messenger you are using, you can change the sound and erase the sound completely.

If you are very careful to create mail and spam filtering rules for Netscape's email software and you want to create Netscape's filter settings for your new PC.

Go to Start -> Search -> Files and Folders , and select "All Files and Folders" . Please select "Search hidden files and folders" by expanding "More advanced options".You enter the keyword "msgfilterrules" into the search box.The search results will show some folders with msgfilterrules.When you search in Windows XP, this file may be:

C: Documents and SettingsTENCUABANApplicationDataMozillaProfiles
default6y2pe1cq.sltMailpop.HOPTHUCUABAN.com

To find Netscape's spam filtering rules, you need to search for training.dat file in the .slt folder like:

C: Documents and SettingsTENCUABANApplicationDataMozillaProfilesdefault5z3f9dp.slt

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