This is from Ray, I just hope he's not giving a test later on or I'll have
to study up on what parts of this I don't already know. Still folks it's a
very interesting read to say the least.
David Ferrin
Hi Dave
this is part of a Tutorial found interesting.
How to enable the Phishing Filter in Internet Explorer 7:
List of 7 items
1. Open Internet Explorer
2. Click on Tools and then select Internet Options.
3. Click on the Security tab.
4. Click on the Custom Level button.
5. Scroll down to the Miscellaneous category and look for Use Phishing
Filter underneath it.
6. Select Enable.
7. Press the OK button. Then press the Apply and OK button again.
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How to enable the Phishing Filter in Mozilla Firefox:
List of 6 items
1. Open Firefox
2. Click on the Tools menu and select Options.
3. Click on the Security option category.
4. Put a checkmark in the checkbox labeled Tell me if the site I'm visiting
is a suspected forgery
5. Select the option labeled Check by asking Google about each site I visit.
6. Press the OK button.
list end
E-mail Terms and Definitions
There are many different types of software, protocols, and services
available to access and send e-mail. In this section we will explain various
technical
terms that you may see when using e-mail services.
Definition list of 6 items
POP3 = POP3 stands for Post Office Protocol version 3. POP3 software usually
runs on an ISP's or company's server and accepts connections from your mail
software. Once connected your mail software will send your login
information, and if you successfully login, will download any new mail that
may be stored
on the servers to your local machine. It is important to note that a POP3
server is used only for retrieval of e-mail in a mailbox stored on the POP3
server.
It is not used to actually send e-mail.
SMTP = SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transport Protocol. SMTP software usually
runs on an ISP's or company's network, accepts mail from your mail software,
and then delivers it to your recipient. It is important to note that the
SMTP server is used only for sending and accepting e-mail to and from other
servers
or accepting e-mail to be sent from your mail client. SMTP servers are not
used to download e-mail saved on the server. To do that you would use the
POP3
server described above.
IMAP = IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. This protocol is
similar to POP3 in that it is used to access mail that is located on your
mail
server. The difference is that IMAP allows you to view and access your
e-mail without downloading the e-mail to your local computer like POP3 does.
This
allows you to have the same access to your mail, including folders and sent
items, from any computer that has an IMAP client on it. The disadvantage to
IMAP is that this protocol tends to be resource intensive for the server and
your mailbox can quickly grow in size because the mail is not typically
downloaded.
It is for these reasons that most ISP's do not offer IMAP access to your
mailboxes.
Webmail = Webmail is simply the ability to access the mail in your mailbox
stored on a server using your web browser. The most commonly used webmail
applications
are Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and Hotmail.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Is it true that people can read my e-mails while they travel through
Internet on the way to the person I am sending them to?
A: The technical answer is Yes. Any time a message passes through a server,
that server can examine the message, copy the message, or even delete the
message
depending on certain criteria. The reality, though, is that the majority of
ISPs and companies do not do this simply because it would become
overwhelming
to store copies of all the mail that passes through their server. At the
same time, it is always better to be safe then sorry. So never send
personally
identifiable information such as social security numbers, credit card and
banking information, passwords, etc via e-mail.
Q: Who or what is this Mailer-Daemon or Postmaster that sometimes sends me
an e-mail.
A: These mailer-daemon or postmaster emails are automatically generated by
the mail server software when an e-mail you sent failed to reach it's
intended
recipient for some reason. Whether it be you sent an e-mail to a person that
does not exist, the recipient's mailbox is full, or the server is having an
error, when you receive one of these e-mails it means that your e-mail
failed to be delivered. If you open the email they will typically, if you
can decode
the information, give a reason as to why the delivery failed.
Q: Why does it take so long for someone to receive an e-mail I sent them?
A: When you send an e-mail to someone it should get to them within minutes
if not seconds. There are many factors, though, that could cause delays in
delivery.
Below we explain a few of these factors:
List of 4 items
. When a server receives an e-mail it is placed in a first-in-first-out
queue. If the queue has a lot of messages in it, and the server is not a
very powerful
one, it could take a while for your message to be processed. This is
exacerbated further as a mail message may have to pass through multiple
servers each
adding their own delay.
. You may be having trouble connecting to your outgoing mail server because
the server is having a problem or your Internet connection is down. You can
usually see signs of this problem when the message you sent is sitting in
your Outbox folder instead of appearing in your Sent folder. A e-mail in
your
outbox usually indicates a problem connecting to your outgoing mail server.
. The person receiving the e-mail is having trouble connecting to their
incoming mail server in order to download the e-mail you sent them.
. The recipients address was spelled wrong or the recipients mailbox is
full. When you run into this type of issue you will generally receive an
error back
from the Mailer-Daemon with a cryptic message stating that the address could
not be found or the mailbox was out of space.
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Q: I keep getting messages from someone called Mailer-Daemon saying that I
am sending e-mail to people that I never sent to!?!?!
A: I see this question all of the time. You check for new e-mail on your
computer and a stream of e-mails from someone called Mailer-Daemon appear
saying
that your e-mail message to some unknown address failed. These types of
messages are typically due to your own computer or someone else's computer
being
infected with an e-mail worm. E-mail worms typically propagate by scanning
an infected computer's address book and then disguising itself as one of the
contacts in this address book. It then sends an e-mail to everyone in the
list or other randomly generated recipients. When these e-mails fail to
deliver
for whatever reason, the errors are returned to you because the worm is
sending out that e-mail disguised as yourself.
If it is not your computer that is infected there is, unfortunately, not
much you can do to fix these types of problems other than try and examine
the Internet
header of the mail message to determine the IP address of the computer that
is sending the messages. You can then hopefully track the user down using
this
information to let them know they are infected.
Q: When someone sends me an e-mail they get a message back saying it was
undeliverable because I have no space left in my mailbox!
A: When someone sends you an e-mail your mail server will store the message
in a mailbox on the server. ISPs, though, will typically set a maximum
allowable
size for your mailbox, and if your mailbox reaches this limit, will generate
error messages stating that your mailbox is full to whoever sends you an
e-mail.
To fix this problem download all your mail off the mail server using a POP3
client such as Outlook Express, Outlook, Thunderbird, Eudora, etc. These
types
of problems typically occur when someone enables the setting in the mail
software to leave messages on the server. When this setting is enabled when
you
download new e-mail a copy is left up on the server and is never deleted.
Q: Where does e-mail get stored on my computer?
A: When your mail client downloads new mail it stores them in mailboxes on
your local computer. Depending on the software you use for mail, the
mailboxes
will be stored in various locations. Below is a list of the default
locations for the more popular mail software packages.
Table with 2 columns and 8 rows
Mail Software
Location on your computer
Eudora
C:\Program Files\Eudora
Mozilla Thunderbird
C:\Documents and Settings\LoginName\Application
Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\random.default\Mail\Local Folders
Opera
C:\Documents and Settings\LoginName\Application Data\Opera\Opera\mail
Outlook
C:\Documents and Settings\LoginName\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
Outlook Express
C:\Documents and Settings\LoginName\Local Settings\Application
Data\Identities\{IdentityCode}\Microsoft\Outlook Express
Windows Mail (Vista)
C:\Users\LoginName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail\Local Folders
Windows Live Mail Desktop
C:\Documents and Settings\LoginName\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A: Either :)
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