Burgess, I'm interested in getting rid of those messenger spams as well. There's nothing in Properties to suggest where they come from or how to get them to stop sending their crap to me. Sometimes get 3 or 4 a day. Hope you have a solution.
Bernie Writeto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Burgess Howell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 3:29 PM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Outlook Express problem plus Messenger ads > Al, > > I thought we discussed this offline some time back. It's not a pop-up. > > Send me the exact wording of the messenger dialog and I'll track down the > fix for you. > > Burgess > > At 01:39 PM 12/9/2002, you wrote: > >TFlan, > >Being the Techy that I am, I am guessing that OE has been monitoring some > >of your posts and has decided to take matters into it's own hands. It may > >be saying it doesn't trust you to make those decisions. > > > >Seriously, when you are done with that one, and I don't use OE, I have a > >question about these "messages" that seem to come out of the blue, even > >without my browser on, on "Messenger" windows. I do have Messenger in my > >puter, but have not used it nor activated it, which I think I have to > >do. All sorts of ads, even some "adult" ads, just pop up on my > >screen. Baffling to me. I do have a pop-up killer but it only runs after > >I start my browser (IE 6.0) > > > >Al > > > >At 01:49 PM 12/9/2002, you wrote: > >>Hi; > >> > >>I know this isn't golf but what the hell . . . 'tis the season to be > >>confused. > >> > >>There are several computer gurus here. I can't get an answer to this from > >>MS or from "help" in OE. > >> > >>Here's what; I've received a few messages recently with attachments. > >>There's been a message attached to the email, highlighted in yellow that > >>reads; "OE removed access to the following unsafe attachments in your > >>mail: . . . " and the name of the attachment after the colon. The > >>attachment is still included in the main body of the message. I've sent > >>emails to 3 senders asking them if they have a virus in their computer. > >>None have. OE doesn't have any answer to this in the "help" function. > >>I've run scans galore via scan disk and Norton's stuff. All things are > >>normal. This never happened until the past couple of weeks. Anybody know > >>what this is all about, and how to solve it? > >> > >>Thanks > >> > >>TFlan > >> > >
