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Sorry to jump in on the tail end here, but I need to clean up my deleted and sent folder on my work OWA. Is there a quick, easy way to grab all the messages and save them to my hard drive so I can access them if necessary?
 
I have an Outlook account set up on my work laptop, but I don't really use that cpu very often, maybe twice a week or so.
 
Tshile, got a question. I'm about to stop dragging my feet and join the wild, wacky world of Windows 8 via a new laptop (most likely HP Pavilion, 3rd gen Corei3 (Ivy Bridge), 6GB DDR3 ram, 750Gig HD, 17.3 in. screen-nothing fancy or powerful but decent and currently at "You stole this thing" prices)

My question is, so far, how is MSE looking as a piece of security software? I've used Avast for several years now and the newer versions have done a creditable job of keeping me virus-free and, as I mentioned elsewhere, I use Malwareytes, Super Anti Spyware, Advanced System Care, among other tools and am careful when I wander online but I've seen reviewers say complimentary things about MSE and wanted to hear your-and anyone else's for that matter-thoughts on it's effectiveness versus continuing with another anti-virus program.
 
Just made the refreshing discovery that if I adjust my account server settings in Thunderbird to POP mail, instead of IMAP mail, then all mail downloaded into Thunderbird, stays permanently on my PC, regardless of what happens to it in the online email account.
 
servumtuum said:
Tshile, got a question. I'm about to stop dragging my feet and join the wild, wacky world of Windows 8 via a new laptop (most likely HP Pavilion, 3rd gen Corei3 (Ivy Bridge), 6GB DDR3 ram, 750Gig HD, 17.3 in. screen-nothing fancy or powerful but decent and currently at "You stole this thing" prices)

My question is, so far, how is MSE looking as a piece of security software? I've used Avast for several years now and the newer versions have done a creditable job of keeping me virus-free and, as I mentioned elsewhere, I use Malwareytes, Super Anti Spyware, Advanced System Care, among other tools and am careful when I wander online but I've seen reviewers say complimentary things about MSE and wanted to hear your-and anyone else's for that matter-thoughts on it's effectiveness versus continuing with another anti-virus program.
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Been on vacation :)

I would suggest you get an i5 but that's just my opinion. Cost may make it not an option, or you may want the increased battery life (i believe the i3 has better life over i5?), or it may not be an option with the deal you get. I've been hearing better things about the i3 lately, so maybe it's a much better product now.

As for MSE...

It's actually built into Window 8 so you don't need anything else if you want to use that. It's what I use. I like it. That said....

MSE lost its accreditation as an antivirus product 6 months or so ago. (they my have gotten it back?) when you look at the report and the numbers it doesn't look that bad but I feel obligated to mention it. I can't 'recommend' MSE because of that, but I can tell you it is what my computers use. :)
 
Goaldeje said:
Sorry to jump in on the tail end here, but I need to clean up my deleted and sent folder on my work OWA. Is there a quick, easy way to grab all the messages and save them to my hard drive so I can access them if necessary?
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If the people running your system haven't set up an online archive for you then you need to use an email program to save them to a file (we use Outlook and save to pst's . Pst files are not supported above 2gb in size, so if you archive 8 gigs of email to one file make sure you understand it may corrupt one day and be unusable.)

There isn't a way to archive out of OWA.
 
OK, got it. So I need to take my laptop which runs outlook and archive that way. Thanks.
 
MikeSr619 said:
do you ONLY check your email from the web access or do you have an Outlook account set up some place?
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I use a program called MailWasher (the free version) which allows me to preview all emails BEFORE I download them. I can then delete the BS one's from the server, and download only what I want.
 
Ever since I got Thunderbird, I've been getting malicious spam emails, that only show up in my emails in Thunderbird, and not in the corresponding online email account.
And as soon as they appear in Thunderbird in the download, without me even clicking on the email, my Avast alerts me that it detected a malicious email.
What's more disturbing is they are coming frequently now in email accounts that never used to get much spam, and they are also going straight to the Inbox, not the Spam folder.
But what's most odd is that they only appear in Thunderbird. The exact email never appears in my online account. Which leads me to believe that Mozilla/Thunderbird is whoring out my email address to spammers.
Is that "Mail-washer" program the best solution to this ?
 
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I use Thunderbird and I've never really had any issues...hate that you are....
 
tshile said:
Been on vacation :)

I would suggest you get an i5 but that's just my opinion. Cost may make it not an option, or you may want the increased battery life (i believe the i3 has better life over i5?), or it may not be an option with the deal you get. I've been hearing better things about the i3 lately, so maybe it's a much better product now.

As for MSE...

It's actually built into Window 8 so you don't need anything else if you want to use that. It's what I use. I like it. That said....

MSE lost its accreditation as an antivirus product 6 months or so ago. (they my have gotten it back?) when you look at the report and the numbers it doesn't look that bad but I feel obligated to mention it. I can't 'recommend' MSE because of that, but I can tell you it is what my computers use. :)
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This particular deal comes with the Ivy Bridge i3 only. The i3 3rd gen is improved with support for low-power DDR3-1600 and PCI Express 3.0 and some improvements in chip architecture. It's max power consumption is only 35W so it is fairly easy on the batteries as you said. The main advantage of similarly clocked i5's I would imagine is probably the the Turbo Boost mode which isn't available with the i3 obviously.

I don't do gaming or media creation so I think I'll be ok with the i3-the 6GB of ram will help keep things from clogging up.

Like I mentioned I have read some positive things about MSE-and some not so positive. I appreciate your input, tshile. I'll check a few more tech forums and see what they say-I must say, however, Avast has been very good at keeping my machine safe from the software "nasties" . We'll see how things shake out. :)
 
Fear The Spear said:
Ever since I got Thunderbird, I've been getting malicious spam emails, that only show up in my emails in Thunderbird, and not in the corresponding online email account.
And as soon as they appear in Thunderbird in the download, without me even clicking on the email, my Avast alerts me that it detected a malicious email.
What's more disturbing is they are coming frequently now in email accounts that never used to get much spam, and they are also going straight to the Inbox, not the Spam folder.
But what's most odd is that they only appear in Thunderbird. The exact email never appears in my online account. Which leads me to believe that Mozilla/Thunderbird is whoring out my email address to spammers.
Is that "Mail-washer" program the best solution to this ?
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The only way your email address would get in to the hands of spammers is when an email you sent gets forwarded and it contains not only your address, but those you sent it to. There is also an automated spambot that generates all possible configurations of an email address, sends a spam email to those addresses, but if you reply, it knows it has a 'victim'. Mozilla / Thunderbird have too much at stake to be on-selling email addresses.

MailWasher allows you to see what emails you have waiting to be downloaded. Rather than have your email program running all the time, you have MailWasher up and running and it will advise you of any new emails arriving at the server. However, when you first fire up your pc at the start of a day, you open MW BEFORE Thunderbird. You can then see what yu have sitting on the server waiting to be downloaded. Now you can action as you see fit.
Some email you want to keep, or are business related, or from family, so at the moment, you leave them as is.

Other email may be spam, so you can action them at server level. You can mark them as spam, then what I do is add the domain to my blacklist. However, if the domain happens to be a well recognised domain, like gmail, or hotmail, by blacklisting the domain you blacklist EVERYONE using that domain as an email address. You would blacklist the address only, and thus, leaving access to other emails from that domain.

Of the emails you want to keep, you can add them to your friends list.

When you open MW, you just click on the emails you want deleted, click 'Process mail' and the unwanted emails will be removed completely. Yu can then open your email program and download what is left.

I've been using TB with MW for over 5 years, and not once has a malicious email been downloaded. In fact, the only time my AV goes off is when I come across a suspect website when Stumbling.
 
That's hilarious. Probably similar to what the mods went through with all the site changes, lol.
 
That's me except instead of playing halo i'm posting on BGO, IRC, or playing haxball

Sometimes I study/read...

As for how people that aren't good at troubleshooting computer problems go, yeah that's about accurate.
 
yeah mac people require their own special treatment because they have it built into their heads that whatever is wrong the mac certainly has nothing to do with it.

they think they're smarter or tech savvy when at the end of the day they don't have any more of a clue as to how computers work than the average PC user.
 
government IT and large corporate IT is so broken.

i spoke to a guy that can't install a program to chop up and reorganize PDF's because acrobat is too expensive to be approved and the cheaper items aren't on the 'approved software list.' so instead he sends the files to his home computer, chops them up and such, then sends them back. which completely defeats the purpose of having an approved software list and controlling the software on the person's computer.

MBA's, with their fancy degrees, make their check list to create a secure system on paper and no one stops to think about how the people actually using the system are going to behave. if you don't seriously take into account ease of use for the end user you're creating a system with built-in incentives for the end user to find work arounds.

Then when there's a data breach or secure information becomes compromised they all sit around and scratch their head and wonder why their secure-on-paper design failed.
 
I had my credit card stolen after ordering brewing supplies from MosterBrew,
ICG America Acknowledges Security Breach - eSecurity Planet

Amex noticed and canceled the account a while go, but I never really knew how it got compromised. Those buffoons had someone in their network from January until August. They offered nothing other than a link to the free credit report. They waited 2 months to send out this letter.

Completely and utterly pathetic. I hope that company goes bankrupt.

Yet another reason not to use debit cards for online purchases. You just can't trust companies anymore (if you ever could?)
 
Northern Brewer man, northern brewer :)
 
Can you really do damage to a flash drive or its contents by just manually pulling it out of the USB (assuming you don't have any of its files open, at the time) ?
Apparently its considered an "unsafe eject" by the flash drive maker, based on the warning I get, when I pull it out.
Is it really that unsafe ?
 
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