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Tips and Tricks
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for useful hints and shortcuts on how to get the most
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Virus Hoax
What about these very convincing E-mails that I get from
a "friend of a friend" from some big company saying that
there is a new virus out that Norton and McAfee can't
stop and that I should delete some file or another????
These
messages sound very sincere and convincing and appear to
be from a knowledgeable source. Actually they are
classified as a "Hoax". They often ask you to delete a
useful and essential file in your windows system thereby
causing harm to yourself!
The rule
here is to believe no one except your anti-virus
company, either Norton or McAfee, or other major
vendor. You can always check out the Norton site listed
below to see if the hoax you have received is listed and
has been around before. Take NO ACTION on these
messages until you verify their validity by checking
with a trusted computer professional or the link below.
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/hoax.html
Another few good sites
for the verification of hoaxes are:
http://www.hoaxkill.com/
http://www.vmyths.com/
What is Spam
and what can I do about it?
Spam is ANY uninvited and unwanted
E-mail. This includes most advertisements and a lot of
the jokes that some users insist on forwarding to
everybody in their address book!
Outlook and
Outlook Express have some methods of helping to
eliminate unwanted messages. Search the Help files in
your Email program for assistance on how to implement
these features.
ShareINet
has a Spam E-mail filter option that you can add to your
Internet account for $2 per month. You have the option
of eliminating unwanted E-mails directly at the post
office server so
they never even get to your inbox.
There are several commercial spam
blockers on the market and most of them do a great job.
Mail Washer pro and SpamArrest are a couple that I have
used with success.
You can always change your email name if
the problem gets too bad. That is a no charge item
with us.
Here's how
to create a password that is easy to remember but
difficult to crack:
Invent a
sentence, with numbers and proper nouns in it, that is
appropriate to your own life. Now, take the first letter
of each word, and convert the numbers to digits.
For example
– “AaBh3cnJPaE” looks like a complicated password, and
much too hard to remember. But it comes from “Ann and
Bob have three children named Jason, Paul, and
Elizabeth.”
A password
like that would be very difficult to crack and
impossible to guess. However, if you are Ann or Bob, you
should remember it easily!
Add a
Signature to your E-mail messages automatically....
An easy way
to let everyone know your correct email address is to
add it to the bottom of every Email message you send.
Also this method will save you some typing too.
Your version
of windows may change these directions a bit so check
your help files in your Email program and look for
Signature.
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On the
Tools menu, click Options, and then
click the Signatures tab.
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To
create a signature, click New and then either
enter text in the Edit Signature box or click
File, and then find the text or HTML file
you'd like to use.
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Select
the Add signatures to all outgoing messages
check box at the top of the section.
This information provided
by Microsoft Help in Windows XP Outlook Express, Help,
Signatures
Manage
your E-mail account from ANY computer terminal with web
access!!!
You can
manage (read, delete, forward, send new) your Email
while away from your own computer terminal.
Go to our
"Web Based Email" link on our main menu. You can log
in to our web based Email server and manage your mail as
if you were at your own computer.
Change
your "Home Page"
You can make
any web page your home page.
In Internet
Explorer, go to the page you want to make your "home
page".
Click on Tools,
Click on Internet Options,
Click on Make Current,
Next time
you open our Internet Explorer program or click on the
"Home" icon your favorite page will open.
Connect a
Phone to your Computer.
Most modems
have two telephone jacks in them. The one marked phone
is available for you to connect a regular telephone
into. You could use this phone when you are not
connected to the internet or sending a FAX from your
computer.
Automatically disconnect from the Internet.
To set your
computer to automatically disconnect from the internet
after a set interval of inactivity:
In Windows
XP, in Internet Explorer.
Click on
Tools,
Click on Internet Options
Click on Settings
Click on Advanced.
Place a check in the box to enable the auto disconnect
feature and the number of minutes you determine.
Close all
these windows and return to your browser.
Check your
browser Help Files for instruction for versions other
than XP.
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